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Hello I’m in need of some advice as to how best to treat my goat. I’m pretty sure he has Shelly hoof or that due to the really dry then wet weather we have had his hoof has cracked. He went lame a few hours ago and is sound on all his other feet and the other boys he is with are sound. The...

My lovely ex battery had to undergone a surgical emptying of her crop yesterday under GA. the vet told me to give her soft food only and keep her in for a few days. Last night she had scrambled eggs but this morning she has not fully emptied her crop. Is this normal due to the surgery or should...

Hello All my goats are wormed every 3 months with panomec. one of my goats was coughing so I called the vet and we treated him for lungworm we used panomec injection and tested him for lungworm which came back positive and showed another type of worm sorry I can’t remember the name. the vet...

I was quite relieved to know I hadn’t caused the horn to move it was so awful when it happened but touch wood she seems very happy and the horn is healing

Hi all thank you so much for all your replies. We had the vet out, she said she could see an old crack in the horn and believes that this was a pre existing injury she had before we got her, which had just started to heal and that’s why it moved. The good news is that her horn is very wonky but...

Hello I hope you could help me as I feel absolutely horrendous that one of my goats is hurt. I have two 6 month old girls they have moved into a new stable and I think it’s a bit dusty so they have runny noses so before I moved them I needed to wipe their noses. when I got hold of one of the...

Apology I forgot to add he has urinated 3 times a full stream in 2 hours

Hello my two year old Boer wether suffered from urinary calculi in January this year. By some miracle he survived emergency surgery where they placed a catheter and put him onto diazepam. He managed after 3 weeks to pass 11 stones. Since then I’ve been incredibly paranoid and watching him...

Hello My 18 month old Boer became unwell yesterday morning he was straining and unable to urinate. I phoned our vet who scanned him and said his bladder was full and he was in retention, he was rushed to the hospital where they operated to empty the bladder and insert a Foley catheter. prior...