TESTOSTERONE POISONING

Thanks for sharing! I hope he will recover but I think his... mishap... is making a lot of us fix some little things that may have been ignored for a while...

Southern by choice said:

I think we will need to fix that this weekend.

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babsbag said:

Tomorrow I need to go and change something in the barn...

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I am running to the barn with my tools today as well!

Sheepshape said:

They can't help it, bless 'em (or words to that effect........)

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They alsways find that weak spot in fence. i bet he was glad to see you

Sure am glad ya found him in time, that had to be a real shocker to come home to find.....hoping he will recover quickly and completely for ya....be sure to keep us posted on the recovery. It makes me glad to just deal with the wethers, they are problematic enough for me to handle.

I had a jack donkey breed a neighbor's mare over the fence. She walked off and he came down over the barbed wire fence right between his sheath and testicles. Fire ants made a 8 lane freeway on his front leg, carrying bits of his chest back to the nest. His flank looked like your goat, all compressed. He was standing stock still when I found him, no telling how long he had been like that. We didn't live on the property and I went out once a day to feed. I ran to the neighbor's for wire cutters, he came back with me and cut the fence while I haltered up the donkey. The wire fell away, I led the donkey forward and back into our property and he took off to shake off the fire ants.

A horse would have hit the panic button, tore the fence down, broke all his legs, ripped his male parts to pieces and bled to death. That donkey was so smart, he knew he was caught and didn't move. He just didn't move. He waited for me to come find him and cut him loose.

It isn't always the males. This little darling was lucky that I looked in her direction at the moment she arched her back and I could see her above the cement block. No idea how long she was there. She was not making any noise and her mama wasn't telling me that anything was wrong and I wasn't missing her yet. There are a few bucks right on the other side of the wire, she went through a fence to go courting.

currently ram less and enjoying it.
baymuel most horses will panic in a situation like that but not all. especially the well trained horses of days gone by. I've had 4 horses caught in fences with barb wire over a forty year time period and all stood and waited without cutting themselves. one was a 1&1/2 year old stud breeding the neighbors mare over the fence just like the donkey did. the mare charged me as I walked across the field to cut him out. I didn't expect that. I also watched (after getting him out of the fence) as she positioned herself downhill, him up hill and squatted for him. he wasn't very tall so she improvised. after she settled down a bit I was able to get him out without her nailing me. some females can be as bad as males when they come in season.

I have a mini horse and he regularly goes through a 1 foot gap between a telephone pole post and the side of the barn... How I don't know, but he has a path...

Testosterone poisoning that's funny. Never heard it called that but it makes sense

@goatgurl

I've seen goats into some pretty crazy trouble, but nothing quite like this! How is he now?

@rosti, he is doing better, still a little weak in his hind legs but much better than he was. the first 2 or 3 days he knuckled under on his back right foot but isn't doing that any more either. I let him breed a doe on day 4 after his adventure and after that last thrust his hind legs collapsed under him so I separated them. its going to take him a while longer to get over this I think.
@babsbag i'm thinking your little doe is just flirting. nothing wrong with that