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I have three miniature goats, a buck, a doe, and a wether, all alpine mix. Everybody was fine yesterday, went out this morning and the buck can barely stand up. When he does his front legs won't straighten up and they shake. He doesn't look good at all and just lies down without eating. He did...

I have a bunch of books on goats and raising goats but they are all seriously lacking when it comes to bucks and their nutrition. Most books devote chapters to does, what to feed when they are pregnant, prior to kidding, after kidding, and normal. None of mine have even a paragraph about buck...

Nobody in my little slice of heaven has ammonium chloride, and no one in a 50 mile radius does either. I did get banamine from the vet and administered that as well as drenching with ACV. Came home this afternoon and he was back to his usual self. I am thinking the blood was from him actually...

I've got a buck and a doe approximately a year old. I went out to feed them this morning and he looked a little off. He was laying down, which he never does, under the hay. I didn't think much of it, he ate fine and looked fine. Came home and he was standing up in the barn and shaking a little...

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like a good course of action.

Just received two alpine/pygmy mixes (a buck and a doe) about 7 months old. His poop didn't llok right so I took samples of both to the vet. Vet said both were over-burdened with ring and hook worms and gave me Panacur (Fenbendazole) to give them PO once a day for three days. Now my questions...

Hello everyone! Just got my first two alpine/pygmy mix goats. Looking forward to joining the conversation.