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Farmer-Rick

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9. Yeah goats can be more delicate than sheep.
Mon Sep 2, 2019, 03:48 PM
Sep 2019

I had a 6 month old lamb somehow cut evey damn tendon in her lower front left leg. The hoof flopped around like your goat's. She was bleeding everywhere. I caught her and put her in the shed, got the vet out and he sewed her back together. Cost $300 and 2 months locked in a small pen with me hand feeding and changing her bandages every day.

After that, she walked as well as the other ewes and grew to be a good mother, lambing triples every other year.

Never did figure out how she managed to cut her tendons like that. It never happened again.

But your returning limping goat takes the cake. With all the sheep I have sold around here, I never had one come back on their own.

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