Hey... I'm hardly on here, But absolutely love the way everyone can connect and share Such wonderful information.
I have quite a dilemma. I have a duck who has two legs pretty much flipped up the wrong way and toes curled in. My guess is that it had splayed leg, And then the Achilles tendon...
That's horrible! My Jack Russell/Chihuahua mix thinks he IS a goat. haha. and now that the babies are gone, he's sad. Mitchell bloated up like a balloon, we tried oil and massage etc. then rushed to vet ER ...poor thing was SCREAMING and looking at me like HELP ME MOMMY.I kept trying to soothe...
we lost our baby boys one after the other and now we will never feed replacer again. so devastating. also won't overfeed...just a bit at a time, but more often. hard lesson learned!
I have been told by both owners and a vet that they shouldn't have the grain/pellets. They need the milk (not replacer) and fresh browse and fresh hay. Not alfalfa for bucks/wethers because it causes calci-something, sorry not sure the word- urinary trouble. baking soda available to balance ph...
I just got my very first goats recently, and within a week and a half of bringing them home, They were both dead. My opinion is that #1-I used powdered replacer. #2-I fed too much, too infrequently.
The research I have done has led me to believe that it is indeed better to give them smaller...