Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats Blog - Triplets born - New baby pics

[punkin]

This has been one of my favorite threads on BYC. I have fallen in love with the NDG. If I had a place built for them, I would have some in a heartbeat. Ruth, I hope all your goats do well. Your dog with its gentle disposition is awesome!

I am so hooked that I am going to our fair tonight just to see the Goat Show. I really, really hope they have some little Nigerians.

Now, everyone go out and love on your little goats for me

 

[helmstead]

I keep meaning to post here and keep forgetting...

Your Nigis are GORGEOUS!

Bravo to you and hope your little one heals swiftly and completely.

 

[ruth]

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That is so sad and tragic about your goats. The part about the one with the broken leg healing and doing well later gives hope though. They play so rough I've wondered how she will do after healing and I put her back in with others. Yesterday I let her go in pen with them for first time, on a leash, while I tried to catch them and give them their medicine. While I was wrestling one, Bitsy got lose and ran and started trying to jump up on bench and kept falling down. My heart stopped - it happened so fast. But, boy she loves to jump and loves that bench.

Thanks to all who have posted about how cute they are. It's all the enablers on here that are to blame. I had never heard of Nigerian Dwarf goats and never thought I would own a goat of any kind. Then I start seeing threads and posts with cute goat pictures and goat stories and next thing I know, goats show up in our yard. So, please, everyone, don't post anymore threads about cute farm animals.

 

[ruth]

The stork delivered our newest arrival on Saturday evening just in time for Gustav to hit. Her name is Confetti and we are hoping she is now a mommy to be. The breeder said she has already won two regionals and one grand champion - whatever all that means I have no idea. I do know she doesn't like getting her feet wet and since it has been raining since she got here, she keeps standing in the feed bins. The breeder had shaved her for show, just to take some last photos of her. I know the breeder really doesn't want to part with her "babies" but she just had a baby herself, in vitro (expensive), and needs to sell off some of her herd of 75 goats.

Here she is with the others.

 

[MagsC]

I LOVE her color!

 

[kwynn's birds Alaska]

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I was just posting about that web sight! I've been constantly reading it. It's a good one! Good luck, and have fun with your goats!

I posted a pic of mine in nigerian dwarf questions thread.

P.s. What pretty goats!

 

[helmstead]

Well! Congrats again!!

Hope she's bred!

 

[ruth]

Sad update on Bitsy's leg:

Took her in for her three week checkup and the vet was thrilled with progress. Took off the wrap and said there was a great callous formed and she should be well enough in another three weeks to have the "cast" removed.

Took her in Thursday to have "cast" removed and the leg was broken. Somehow it has rebroken. At first I couldn't think how or when it could have happened. She is still staying in her pen, which we've moved to the stable so she can be with her friends. I only let her out for a moment when feeding them to let her stretch and walk a bit. Confetti has bumped her once or twice but not in leg and I was standing right there and shooed her away. However there was a night when Bitsy somehow got out of her kennel and was out when we fed them the next morning. I'm guessing something happened that night - about a week ago - that rebroke the leg.

Now vet says there's 4 options - we went with #1.

1. Try and rewrap the leg and wait two weeks and see if any new growth has started - if not - proceed to #2.

2. Do "surgery" to roughen the bone tips so they can start all over trying to heal.

3. Amputate leg.

4. Put her down.

I'm so upset and disappointed. The poor thing has been in a kennel for six weeks and is now looking at another six weeks or another eight weeks. We have been so very careful with her - carrying her outside to let her get air and carrying her back in - not letting her walk on it. I'm worried about her overall health of being confined for that long and not getting exercise.

I'm also upset because at three weeks, when the vet took the "cast" off, is when I realized that it wasn't a cast - just half a plastic mold on the front of leg with nothing on back but a "popsicle stick" and vet wrapped. When I asked why not a plaster cast the vet said this was the same thing and just as good. I asked about the danger of getting the leg bumped, especially from behind, and walking on the hoof if there was nothing to really hold the leg. Sure enough - now it's broken again.

Poor little Bitsy. Of course we'll do everything we can for her but this is just so disappointing. I was so hoping she could join her friends and play again.

 

[MrsCountryChick]

I'm a worrier, that's just me.... But we never gave our Pygmy goats anything to 'climb or jump' from. Just cuz I would've worried about injury accidents happening. We used to have a Really Wonderful vet that barely charged anything in fees, but he was an older man & after he passed away his practiced ended (he didn't work with any other vets, just a sole vet practice). So I'd worry about the mint in vet costs.

But I'd think buried tires would be fine & a use in something you prob wanted to get rid of anyway. (meaning old tires). But we always had plenty of pasture & things like yard balls for occupying, that I'd never give them high items to play on. We even had a mischievous goat get loose more than once & she never herself jumped on anything like yard furniture or anything. I think mountain goats must be built a little different being in rough terrain from the start that their muscles can take the shock of jumping off of things. I'm a worrier tho.

Hope you Baby Bitsy's leg is better soon

 

[Haviris]

I really hate to hear that, I wouldn't put a goat down over a broken leg, and I'd let amputation be a last resort. W/ the two I had we splinted one (probably the same as yours), and we penned the other (we chose those methods because of where the breaks were). I kept them in a stall to keep them from jumping around to much or climbing. If you have a stall or something it may would be better to put her and a friend together to recover, that way they have each other and she's safe from being ganged up on (or singled out by one bully).