dog food goat, need some advice please.

[Ariel301]

A raw egg in the dog's bowl works wonders for dog-food-eating goats.. Dog food may be ground up and processed so intensively that a goat no longer recognizes the MEAT and ANIMAL FAT in it, but an egg? Nope. My experience has been that even the snarfiest of goats won't eat a slimy, wet egg.

Hmmm....my goats must be "snarfier" than yours lol. Before I put up a fortress of fencing for my chickens a few months ago, my does would break into the chicken coop and eat the eggs out of the nests. I couldn't figure out where in the world the eggs were disappearing to until I caught the goats in the act. I wonder how they figured out those white rock looking things in there were something tasty?!

The goat being fed dog food doesn't surprise me sadly...when I was a kid, I remember going to the zoo and they had a little vending machine like the kind you get candy from, and you could get a cup full of dog food kibbles out of it to feed the goats there. For years I assumed that's what goats ate, because that's what we fed the ones at the zoo...Thankfully I learned better BEFORE I bought goats of my own!

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Cm, can you put me down for one of those prints? I had the "rocking horse" experience when I first started trimming feet as well and I will say they don't have to be overgrown. I gave them to one of my bottle babies the second time she had her feet trimmed and had to shave the heel down with a rasp quite a bit to level them out.

It seems like foot conformation might have something to do with it? It's really only the one doe I have to be super mindful about the heel or I end up doing it again. And (probably since I groom for a living) I tend to be a little anal about their feet and do them regularly. Maybe the experts can weigh in on that?

 

[DonnaBelle]

Hi all,

I called my horse farrier this morning and told him about Maggie's hooves probably never been trimmed. I asked him about goat hoof trimming, if he had ever done it, and he says: I used to trim 50 goats for my uncle when I was growing up, know more about goat hooves than I do horses!! He's a super nice guy who comes every 2 months and trims my 2 horses.

Sooo, yeah rah, he's coming this afternoon to do Maggie. He's a real pro, does the show horse circuit in Texas. And did I say, he is a really nice person.

I'm going to get some pictures on here too, will get em this afternoon.

DonnaBelle

 

[ksalvagno]

That is great that you are able to get all her problems taken care of. I would think she should eventually be included in the herd. Just need to give it time.

 

[DonnaBelle]

Hi all,

The farrier came out yesterday afternoon. He trimmed Maggie's feet, and showed me a thing or 3.

Like don't cut the pads at the back of the hoof. Just trim the pointy parts.

I tried to download some pictures. I got them as far as my desktop, but alas, couldn't get them on BYH.

DonnaBelle

 

[cmjust0]

The farrier came out yesterday afternoon. He trimmed Maggie's feet, and showed me a thing or 3.

Like don't cut the pads at the back of the hoof. Just trim the pointy parts.

If he didn't have to trim any heel to make "new" hoof wall hit the dirt squarely from heel to toe, she must not have been *too* bad off.

I tried to download some pictures. I got them as far as my desktop, but alas, couldn't get them on BYH.

Click the "Uploads" link in the blue menu bar toward the top of the page.

When that page comes up, you'll see a button that reads "browse" - click it.

That will bring up what we geeks call a "file/open dialog box"...it's just a window that will allow you to locate and select a file.

At the top of that window, you'll see a drop down menu..click it and select 'Desktop'..

You'll see all the files on your desktop appear in the big white box on that window. Find the image you want to upload and double-click it.

The file/open dialog will disappear, and you'll be back to the page with the 'browse' button you just clicked. Below that button is another button that reads "Submit" -- click it. That will upload the image to BYH.

After the image uploads, you'll automatically be taken to another page where you'll see your image and two text-boxes below it. The boxes will be labeled "Thumb" and "Image". Click somewhere inside the box labeled "Image" and the text will turn blue -- that means it's highlighted, and ready to be copied.

You can either RIGHT click and choose "copy" from the context menu, or you can press CTRL and C simultaneously to copy the text to the computer's "clipboard" -- that puts the text in memory. Nothing magical happens here. If you've never done this before, you'll do it and nothing will happen and you'll think you did something wrong -- but you're fine.

Once that's done, come back to this thread and begin a post as you normally would..

Then, either RIGHT click again and select "paste", or press CTRL and V simultaneously, and that will paste the image location text from the clipboard into the reply.

Submit.

Rejoice.

Repeat, as needed, for additional pictures.