Transporting a goat

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Here's Sam!

She is bawling her little heart out in the quarrantine pen right now- it's breaking my heart! When I'm out there she's quiet as a mouse, so I'm sure she's just lonely and nervous.

Any tips for stimulating her appetite a little? She's already had some probios and she's about to get some b-complex (not sure if it will help but I guess it can't hurt...) She's picked at her feed a little today when I'm with her, but she still doesn't seem relaxed enough to eat and I don't want her off her feed if I can help it. We also have some bounce back on hand- think that would be useful?

 

[helmstead]

How isolated is she? Can she see the others?

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

She can see them, but they can't touch.

 

[mossyStone]

She's a beauty........ That lonely cry breaks my heart......


Mossy Stone Farm

Pygora's and Nubians

Bantam Marans Bourboun Red Turkeys

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

She's eating this evening- not heartily, but she's eating.

 

[cmjust0]

Got a clean sentry wether you can put in with her?

FWIW, quarantining is of limited use without a sentry anyway. Yeah, you'll see that she doesn't pop a CL knot or anything like that, but hey...maybe she's got internal CL abscesses. If she coughs those out onto the sentry and he pops a knot...then you know something. Or what if she's got a little soremouth scab hiding somewhere in her coat? She's obviously not gonna get it again, but a clean sentry might...which would be the only way you'd ever know she carried it.

Which, of course, is the whole point of a sentry.. They act as the canary in the mine, so to speak. Plus...they provide company.

Just sayin'.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Fuuny you should mention it, all day I've been considering doing exactly that! I do have a wether and he may go in with her soon. The trouble is he's 8 weeks and small enough to slip through the cattle panels, so we're going to have to get creative.

 

[Kinderheim]

Hi! I am new here!
I'm hoping to find an answer to transpoting goats in a dog crate.
Xtra large or giant size? I will be driving about 4 hours with a mid-sized goat and week old kid. Any advise?

 

[ksalvagno]

It is nice if you can have the largest size dog crate you can find. You want to give them room to move around in.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

I just saw this thread pop up again and thought I should add that Sam is settled in with the herd and all is well.