New goat (pic)

[anythingbutsandy]

We're repurposing my daughter's playscape into a chicken coop and my husband was grumbling about what we were going to do with the slide --- now I have the answer for him! A toy for the goat! Thanks for the idea.

 

[()relics]

CM, if I knew what caused the folded ears, I'd fix it... but it's fairly common.

Oh believe me, I know! I've seen it a bunch.

I've never seen it in Nubis, though, which is weird considering how similar their ears are.. That, and frostbitten half-ears, too, which is also less frequently seen in Nubis..

Makes me wonder if Boer ears are thinner or something??

...gonna have to go feel up our boer doe's ears tonight...

An extra thick rib in the bottom or their ears, I think. Sometimes they "stick" when they are flipped up on new kids as the ear dries out and sets....Just a theory.... I like to let them set however they may and then when they are 6 months old , or so, deal with the ears that insist on being flipped inside out...Fortunately, and I have confirmed this myself, a flipped ear is not a DQ at a show on a boer goat....just FYI...

 

[Roll farms]

From what I've seen, since we are there at every delivery, they are already STUCK at (before) birth.
After I dry the kids off and check cords / dip them, I hand them to DH w/ "fix the ears" orders and as he's carrying them up to the house I hear two yelps as he unsticks them....They usually have a raw patch on the ear that heals over / grows hair and you'd never know it was there.
Occasionally they try to flip back up and I bend them the opposite way and keep duct tape on them for a day or so to 'train' them...once I take the tape off, they hang mostly straight.