Recent content by Ariel301

It sounds like they are doing fine. It's normal for them to have a scab come off after disbudding, and sometimes they do bleed. Just watch it to make sure it does not get infected. I wouldn't put anything on it unless it looks really bad. They see you as their family, and being social animals...

I'd call them Gold (or tan), black, Chamoise. As for show quality...There's no reason your kids couldn't have a good time showing them in 4-H. They're not "top of the line" as far as conformation (i.e. you probably wouldn't win the ADGA Nationals with them), but they're not unsound either. I'd...

Well, we got brave and cut into one of the lumps last night, this one was on top of the shoulder blade of a yearling doe. The skin had cracked on it and started to bleed, so we got in there with a scalpel, and found...something. It was deep, down inside the muscle itself instead of under the...

You don't necessarily NEED a C-Section. Though it's unnerving thinking that it won't be available in the case that it is necessary. I had a 50-ish pound mini doe kid with a nearly 8 pound single doeling this spring. She got it out, though it took a good deal of assistance. The kid was about 1/3...

There's not a vet within a hundred miles who will biopsy it, otherwise I'd have done that already. Vets here don't know anything about goats, they don't even know what their normal temperature should be! I've been looking for a lab I can send a biopsy to if I could get one myself, but haven't...

As long as she is eating hay and drinking water well and does not seem sick and is not losing weight, I wouldn't worry a lot. Maybe she doesn't like the new grain as much, or she doesn't need as much of it.

Can you get ahold of her and feel the udder? See if it feels hot or lumpy or anything abnormal. Is it possible that another goat, or herself is nursing on the one side so that it is always empty?

I hate that kind of thing. I showed horses in 4H and my Arabian mare always came in dead last in halter classes because they judged all the halter horses to Quarter Horse standards regardless of breed. And she'd get knocked down in riding classes because she went around with her tail waving in...

I have already done this. In fact, multiple times. That's how I know it's not CL. No, there is no appearance of a wound or hole or anything like that with these lumps. The first one to appear, the head lump on Juniper, I thought maybe was a splinter or something that got in there and was...

Put him in something that restrains him well so he can't thrash his head around, and carefully cut it a little at a time. Hoof trimmers work pretty well if it's small, or rose bush trimmers. If you just take off the end, it may bleed a little, but won't put him in serious danger (unless we're...

If they can still fit in the disbudding iron (and/or you can use a calf disbudding tip), say around an inch long, you can do them if you're experienced enough, but it won't be fun. Not a project for a novice disbudder, as you would have to burn, cut the end off, burn again, etc till you get to...

She's negative for Johne's, CAE, and CL. She was on corn oil, up to a half cup a day, and wasn't gaining. But she was also eating 2-3 pounds of grain with that, and I discovered the grain was giving her digestive problems that were in turn causing the laminitis and weight issues (and it doesn't...

Northwest Arizona. I'm going to cut into Juniper's head lump in the next few days and see what's in there, hers is the only one that doesn't feel like it has veins in it.

Anyone know where would be a likely place to send a sample? And what to send them...since there's nothing in there to collect with a needle, I imagine I'd have to cut off the lump and send them that!

The problem is, these don't have pus in them like CL knots. I've stuck a needle in to drain them, and there's nothing there. The first goat has a lump on the very top of the head (not a CL site) that has been there for months now, and shown no indications that it's ever going to burst. The...