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Thank you! She seems so much better today. Wanting out of the pen. Walking and dragging her injured leg, standing up on her hind legs (which makes me so nervous Bc her bone was clean snapped in half). Mama (Lumos) and Dobby (step-wether-dad) don’t want to leave her in there by herself (she...

Lol! Yes, I have seen the drama from all the goats haha.

Thank you guys for your replies- it makes me feel so much better! She seems much better today than last night. Trying to get out of the pen 🙄 I still have mama in there with her but will let mama out to graze in a little while and keep her penned up. It’s her back leg- they didn’t cast it...

Sigh. Doeling broke her leg today. Bertie got caught in my wethers horns today (likely jumping on him when he was napping) and he stood up and she was stuck. And he threw her off (she was screaming and he freaked out- he has always been very good/gentle with her) and she broke her leg - hoof...

Thank you for letting me know! Any chance you have a picture of your wrapping technique? Do I just wrap it around her leg or focus on knee ? 🤔 And yes, she’s such a joy 💛

Hi friends- My 5 week old doeling, whom we named Norbert(a) - Bertie for short, cried out the other day (Tuesday) and when I looked outside all the goats (mama and Dobby- the wether) were all startled and just standing there- the doeling was holding up her front leg and looked like she may...

Update- Warming up in NC- not too many cold nights left hopefully. Dobby (wether) hates sleeping/ being alone so I relocated mama and doeling to the barn and locked up the little “goat-hole” that lets them into a smaller penned in yard area (coyotes active recently in the area). Got a...

Ooh I didn’t know this was an option - do you just do a tiny bit?

Last one- if the new doe and doeling seem to be itching a lot and shaking their heads/ears - can this be a sign of mites? Can I treat this myself? My wether itches a lot right now bc he’s shedding his winter coat I think (thanks to the warm weather we had a couple weeks ago... thanks to global...

And thoughts/ advice on horns? I feel like getting rid of a goats horns is akin to declawing a cat. (Against doing it personally especially if the goats are pets- if they’re for meat purposes or whatever I get it I suppose) - Can I put/ glue something to ends of them at least so they aren’t so...

Hello friends - A few questions for my fellow goat owners as my anxiety has been somewhat heightened since losing Luna. 1. How cold is too cold for my wether to be outside in an enclosed shelter with a little doggie door that he can go outside in a small fenced in area. It’s gonna be 25...

Ahh! There goes my free time! :) thank you

Thank you so much. And I am so very sorry for your losses. I was on BYH the better part of the day through random googling and realized it was still an active forum and thought, who better to understand how this feels than other goat owners? Didn’t anticipate the warmth or level of interaction...

I’m not sure about other animals- not a huge fan of owning chickens personally, thought long and hard about a miniature cow until someone told me they still have full-size poop. :)

I wanted to give up after I lost my doe but I could not consider giving up Dobby :)

Aw thank you. I will take whatever support, advice, shared stories that I can get. I spoke to my vet at length this morning to better understand what happened so I can start to get some closure. Im a pretty logical and level headed person and understand death and nature and just plain bad luck -...

Hello, I’m new here- and new to goats- I live in a very urban area but lucky enough to have a good amount of land and no HOA :) I’ve had goats since May of last year. I’ve always wanted goats and had one for about a year as a kid (until it “went back to the farm” after he got loose and ate the...