StarSpangledNubians
Loving the herd life
Hope you get this figured out! I have mini silky fainter who has a permanently broken leg. We got her and her very sick kid off craigslist. Thought we could save her leg. We splinted it as soon as we got her. We later found out the leg had been broken for at least a month before we got her! The splint wouldn't be able to do anything. Plus the fact she was 6 years old, loaded with worms and had mastitis didn't help at all either. We were given 3 options. Amputate the leg. Put her down. Or leave the leg and keep her comfortable on pain meds and anti-inflammatory until she passes or something happens and we decide to go back to the first 2 options. Well, here we about a year and a half later. She is doing GREAT on her meds, no pain at all and she has free roam of the whole yard and will live in the garage all winter as she did last year. We were told she could very likely live up to 9 years old or even longer. She gets a vet checkup every 3-4 months. You are lucky you caught it earlier. But as others said you should get a vet and see what the break looks like and go from there. I think it's awesome you are not trying to rehome her with this issue. That a very responsible thing to do. I have seen so many people have a goat injured or hurt and they don't want to deal with it so they sell it on craigslist and someone could end up like me. A very long, emotional, expensive road. I will no longer take any more goats with a "Slightly broken leg" as they said on her ad. So thank you for not just giving her to someone else cause you don't want to deal with it!
