Help. I've been raising goats for years and have no idea what's going on here. We live in the pacific northwest and even for here it's been very wet, also we have had major boom in the rat population.
So I noticed many of my kids this year have sores? Bites ? On their necks. Never seen anything like it. I was seriously considering rats but the adults are untouched. We moved all the goats to a new area with livestock fence so we could put poison down in the barn and have been using calf hutches to lock the kids in at night due to predators. Now a few that were fine have mangled necks.
Picture is of a kid who I had brought to the house a week ago, his neck was like that already, been using antibacterial stuff like furazone. I want to rule out disease since I have a bottle baby that I brought to the house pretty much after birth who is doing great and she shares a dog crate at night with the one in the picture and she is unaffected by the other baby with the sores.
I need some guidance of what this could be and what to do next. Could rats be to blame???
So I noticed many of my kids this year have sores? Bites ? On their necks. Never seen anything like it. I was seriously considering rats but the adults are untouched. We moved all the goats to a new area with livestock fence so we could put poison down in the barn and have been using calf hutches to lock the kids in at night due to predators. Now a few that were fine have mangled necks.
Picture is of a kid who I had brought to the house a week ago, his neck was like that already, been using antibacterial stuff like furazone. I want to rule out disease since I have a bottle baby that I brought to the house pretty much after birth who is doing great and she shares a dog crate at night with the one in the picture and she is unaffected by the other baby with the sores.
I need some guidance of what this could be and what to do next. Could rats be to blame???