Whats the lumps on my goats??

[cmjust0]

I think I know the spot you're talking about....just ahead of the hock (rear knee), along the goat's flank/belly..

If so, that's a lymphatic site. I "feel up" my goats from time to time, just to make sure nobody's got some kind of weird knot popping up or whatever.. The lymph nodes you're talking about are spots I specifically make sure to feel around on. As kids, those nodes are actually quite prominent...they kinda feel like a 'loop' in there. If you guys have kids available to aggravate, go grab one and feel its flank just ahead of the hock....you'll feel them.

If you can only feel them, but not see them, and they're the same size on both sides of every goat, you're probably just feeling the lymph node itself.

 

[dhansen]

If the goats have been vaccinated with "Covexin" rather than plain CDT, they will get a lump from the shot. From the location of the lumps on your goats, it sounds like just that. The lumps go away on their own, but it takes several months. The easiest thing to do is not vaccinate with Covexin.