You all look like who I need to talk to here!! Thanks in advance for any advice. OK so I am new to goats. Here is the back story. My daughters wanted goats, I'm a softy and we got them (we already have sheep and every other animal under the sun, why not!). We got two pygmies, a nanny and a whether. Then we ended up with two Boer/Nubian crosses, which are both nannies. So I had no buck. The pygmy nanny went to the neighbors and was bred by there Mini Nubian. My wife's Uncle had a Boer Buck. He had got him this spring to run with his cattle just to browse down the briars. We asked if we could borrow him and he said yes. He had been at our house for several weeks now. About a weeks ago I noticed him fall down. We had had quite a bit of rain and I assumed he slipped. The following day he did it again and drug his back legs before he could get up. I have let my wife's uncle know about it. We came to the original conclusion that maybe he and the Buck Suffolk (they all run together) had butted him. I have checked for anything broken or dislocated, nothing. I wormed him, since I found out he had never been wormed, and put him up away from everyone for awhile to rest. He seemed better. Now he is doing the same thing. I checked his feet last night and one of the rear ones outer walls are completely curved under, he also went from no feed to being on regular feed. I am going to trim his feet when I get home from work. Does anyone know anything that could to make this happen or is there anything else I can do? Please help me out.
