My husband and I just adopted a 1.5 year old doe who just had a female kid last week. We moved them up to our orchard yesterday. It was our understanding that our orchard was fenced and protected. Goats were stressed but lounging under trees; at noon today they disappeared. We discovered a major hole in the fence due to wild pigs (We live in Hawaii, so no natural predators of goats except the odd hunter).
The land surrounding our farm is all pasture, cane grass, and pig trails- with a fenced in herd of goats about 1/3 of a mile away; we saw dozens of wild pigs this afternoon while we searched. We do not believe she would go too far, and our neighbor with the herd is keeping an eye out.
We have notified neighbors and spend the afternoon and evening putting water out for mama(who's in milk) as well as fruits and pellets etc... Any advise on how to summon an anxious and scared mama goat, with baby would be appreciated.
We will be going out again in the am before the sunrise to search again.
The land surrounding our farm is all pasture, cane grass, and pig trails- with a fenced in herd of goats about 1/3 of a mile away; we saw dozens of wild pigs this afternoon while we searched. We do not believe she would go too far, and our neighbor with the herd is keeping an eye out.
We have notified neighbors and spend the afternoon and evening putting water out for mama(who's in milk) as well as fruits and pellets etc... Any advise on how to summon an anxious and scared mama goat, with baby would be appreciated.
We will be going out again in the am before the sunrise to search again.