Bratty goat...

[BlueMoonFarms]

Ok, the good news is she appears to have thought twice about running away from me...
She now stays at her usual spot, and has done so since I posted. However, she is still a brat, and so come hoof time we will see if she decides to use her horns.

Oh one more question.
My goats all have free choice hay, get fed grain in the morning and have a free choice mineral. Yet Nutmeg has decided to eat the side of a stump, and shes carved a very deep hole int he side of it. She sits there and attacks it almost every day :/ is that just her being board? Or do you think shes missing something nutrition wise?

If you don't have a stanchion yet, build one. Put her in it and trim her hooves there.

On the stump -- maybe she likes the taste/texture? She's a goat and goats browse. They will strip bark from trees.

Hehehe, oh she will hate me for life if I do that. But yes, we are waiting for the gentlemen to finish building it, and then we will have it all ready
I hope thats just the case, its a softer wood so the texture might be whats attracting her to it. Well at least she has her free choice mineral, that makes me feel better.

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

Alright, three days in a row Nutmeg did not eat. Finally today, she stayed right at her spot and allowed me to clip her to the fence. She finally got her grain, and now she is very happy.
She tried to use her horns on me once, and bam...Right no the ground, and she stayed there until she stopped wiggling.
Since then, she has been wonderful. Hopefully I wont ever have to do this to her again, but I am so so happy that she is back to not being a huge...Brat.

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

I need help again with my brat of a goat!
Every day, two-three times a day, once it was seven, she forces her head through the fence and gets stuck. The thing is, her head does not fit through the fence. She has to physically twist and push her head and horns through it in order to go after the grass she thinks is so much better on the other side...
This goat is not starved, she was just de-wormed, she did not do this all winter, we expanded the pen into the woods half an acre, and we put up chicken wire to keep her from going through it.
We cant electrify it as at the moment we can not afford it, but she is starting to really get annoying...
The biggest problem is 1.) she knows it will hurt to unstick her head and she tries to escape and get away when I walk up to her. and 2.) the only way I can get her unstuck by myself is by grabbing her leg, bending it back until her head gets into the position to unstick, and then pull...
I am not happy about it, I hate doing it, and she has been getting stuck so often that she going lame from me pulling on her leg so much!
I have tried everything else, she just keeps pushing forward to get out, and wont stop. Shes a big goat and by myself I just cant move her head and keep her back at the same time
How can I keep her from sticking her head through??
Shes not starving, shes just been de-wormed, she has an entire half acre of new vegetation, a mineral lick, all the hay she can eat, and sweet feed grains till!! WTH????
What can I do, and what can I try and do to get her unstuck without pulling on her poor leg. I dont want to hurt her but she just keeps doing this X_X

 

[Southern by choice]

A bar across the horns with very strong duct tape OR she will get it off. The bar needs to extend past her horns so she can't twist sideways and get through the fence..... tennis balls may be needed on the ends if she whacks other goats etc.

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

A bar across the horns with very strong duct tape OR she will get it off. The bar needs to extend past her horns so she can't twist sideways and get through the fence..... tennis balls may be needed on the ends if she whacks other goats etc.

I think I will try that!! Thank you!

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

So...
The only duck-tape we had was purple, and neon yellow...
So, we went with yellow, thinking it would match her fur. >_> No..not really...
My goat is walking around with a neon yellow headlight on her horns...But! She cant go through the fence Ugh...She is plotting my murder as we speak...

 

[Pioneer Chicken]

So...
The only duck-tape we had was purple, and neon yellow...
So, we went with yellow, thinking it would match her fur. >_> No..not really...
My goat is walking around with a neon yellow headlight on her horns...But! She cant go through the fence Ugh...She is plotting my murder as we speak...

Yikes! It's not fun having a temper-tantrum goat. One of our does likes to nibble/bite me on the milkstand if she can. Naughty goat!

Banding is an option, too. We were given a young doe with horns a couple of weeks ago. We really don't like our goats to have horns because of the horror stories we've read what they can do, whether by accident or on purpose. So, I banded her horns. I thought it'd take several weeks for them to fall off, but one fell off after a week and the other fell off in about two weeks. I see your doe's horns are larger so I'd think it'd take a bit longer for them to fall off, but maybe not.

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

So...
The only duck-tape we had was purple, and neon yellow...
So, we went with yellow, thinking it would match her fur. >_> No..not really...
My goat is walking around with a neon yellow headlight on her horns...But! She cant go through the fence Ugh...She is plotting my murder as we speak...

Yikes! It's not fun having a temper-tantrum goat. One of our does likes to nibble/bite me on the milkstand if she can. Naughty goat!

Banding is an option, too. We were given a young doe with horns a couple of weeks ago. We really don't like our goats to have horns because of the horror stories we've read what they can do, whether by accident or on purpose. So, I banded her horns. I thought it'd take several weeks for them to fall off, but one fell off after a week and the other fell off in about two weeks. I see your doe's horns are larger so I'd think it'd take a bit longer for them to fall off, but maybe not.

Bandaging? What is that? That may be an option if we cant keep her from being such a brat.

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

So...The last post we put on her horns she broke...
So, now he has a hunk of wood stuck to her head...
Is there anything else I can do that wont make our neighbors question how we treat our animals? I mean, she does look rather silly...

 

[animalmom]

Oh I don't know... maybe put some plastic fruit around her horns and she'd look like Carmen Miranda?