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  1. Health & Wellness
    Side note: BRAND NEW OWNER OF GOATS. This morning I was out with my goat herd, everyone acting normal except for the gal I helped get out of the hay feeder. 😵‍💫 Suddenly my boy dwarf, Dwight, comes stumbling into the goat house yelling and falling over. 😭😭 He walked outside yelling and...
  2. Health & Wellness
    My 11 months old doeling Abha always had smaller horns, that are thin and curved. (Her sisters have straight, thick black horns). In the last little while Abha’s horns suddenly grew a lot, and then this happened with her right horn: The top part cracked and looks like a cap, but it is still...
  3. Health & Wellness
    I'm sure this is redundant, but I was unable to find the answer in here. I rescued a full grown buck who managed to rip his entire horn off and he was severely bleeding. The buck is wild but I was able to wrestle him down and powder and bandage him so the bleeding is stopped. I also gave a shot...
  4. Beginners Goat Raising
    I have a 9 month old Savanna doe who was bottle fed and raised with a small herd of Nigerians. She has just recently become aggressive any time anyone besides me comes in to the pen. She is butting people (even little kids) and has made a couple of them bleed. She hasn't been aggressive with...
  5. Kidding Koral
    This is our 2nd first born - lol. His brother was technically the first. We had a doeling that we bought at 5 weeks but she was disbudded so the irritation was obvious. He will be a week old on Saturday, but this is the first time we’ve had new babies with a friendly mom, so they’re not as hard...
  6. Goat Management
    I have recently had an incident where one of my does got her head stuck in the fence (which is repaired now) and my older doe was attacking her relentlessly. I was able to get her away from her and separate them. The younger doe has some severe bruising and swelling but is healing. I am...
  7. Health & Wellness
    We run an equine rescue and, over the years, have taken in a few dozen goat rescues. We currently have eight goats, including two kids from a December rescue doe. The kids are now four months old and perfectly healthy. Just with an odd quirk: their horns haven't grown. We've had adult polled...
  8. Health & Wellness
    Hi, My 10wk old alpine bucks are both having issues with their horns. I got them when they were 8wks, both had slightly flaky horns when I picked them up but I figured it was normal/a sign of having been sick (both had sore mouth at 4 weeks old, were clear for over a week before I picked them...
  9. Health & Wellness
    Good morning all! For those of you have banded your goat's horns, how long did it take for the horns to fall off? I have two Nigerian Drawrfs, and it seems to be taking a LONG time for the horns to come off. Of course, one of them fell off the fence rail and into the hay feeder, knocking off...
  10. Bucks
    We have a three year old Nigerian Dwarf buck who was disbudded when he was young. We were taking him to fair because his mother was going and he was too young to be away. As it happens most of the time with our bucks, the horns grew back. Only now they are slightly messed up. They go out and...
  11. Health & Wellness
    Hi everyone, So I know the concensus among most goat breeders is breeding polled to polled is bad because of the increased risk of hermaphrodism. I've had 2 horned hermies since I started raising goats 5 years ago (one I purchased and the other was born here) so I feel like I've had unusually...
  12. Beginners Goat Raising
    If I'm doing a post about the difference between goat horns and cow horns. I need some facts about the goat horns. For example, how long is a goats horn when the goat is 1 year old? What temperature are goat horns usually? Things like that and if you could answer those qestions for me, that...
  13. Site Help, Suggestions, and Announcements
    :cowboy:Hello! I have a Nubian doeling that I'm showing this year for 4H. I have to disbud her horns for the fair, but they're an inch and an 8th long! I heard about banding. What do I need to do that? And how to I do it? o_O:lolgoat:
  14. Meat Market
    I'm doing 4H with my boer goat, Niko, and I was wondering if anyone has any facts about horns for my poster. Thanks so much :happygoat::)
  15. Goat Management
    I am buying the Rhinehart x30 from ValleyVet. The tip size options are 3/8" for "small kids," or .55" for "kids and calves." I have standars Lamanchas, plan to disbud between 4-9 days old. What size would be best?
  16. Beginners Goat Raising
    Buckle up and hang on to your screens; it's gonna be a long one (as you can see by my early use of a semicolon AND parentheses). The Setting 7500 sq. ft. of overgrown blackberry madness 4 ft. chain link fence around the perimeter 4 ft. 2x4 in. rectangle livestock fencing (if that makes sense)...
  17. Goat Frenzy
    I can't really find any pictures of what the kinder goats horns look like. I ask out of curiosity and to aid in my disbud or not debate. If you could have any of bucks too that would be helpful.
  18. Health & Wellness
    Hi everyone! I'm new to the Goat Spot. I've looked through tons of forums over the years and I finally decided to become a member. I know that there are posts about dehorning on the Goat Spot, but I feel that they do not properly address Comet's issues... idk Anyway... I have a 3 year old...
  19. Goat Management
    So one of my wethered Nigerian Dwarfs is growing scurs that is small and growing in towards the skull. I've been keeping an eye on them hoping that he would knock them off, like my other goat seems to do fairly easy. After looking at them today, I noticed that they are extremely close to the...
  20. Health & Wellness
    I'm far from a goat expert, I keep a few as a hobby. I have a pygmy/lamancha mix that is about 5 months old. When he was young he had a poor disbudding job therefore grew scurs. One scur was weak and flimsy, and now it's falling off? It's bloody underneath. I don't know what to do. I read to...
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