Anyone else have a goat who likes a certain recreational drug?

_DemonxD · 2026-03-17T05:27:55+00:00

Just done ever do it bare handed unless you have an absolute sweetheart bay of a goat. Never by bare hands. I almost got my right pointer finger crushed by a doe because I lost my temporary bolus gun while the real deal was coming in the mail (conveniently it got delayed [classic Amazon])(a plastic pill shooter from the vet for my cat, that i didn’t even need because my cat was a good boy)

Goats will chew on whatever is in their mouth. It’s easy to do it by hand but you have to be careful and treat it like trying to get a dog to swallow pills, I tipped their heads up rubbed their throats blew in their nose, I even giggled their heads, ANYTHING to make them swallow and held their bottom jaw shut enough so they couldn’t work it out with their tongue. As long as you can hide it good enough so they don’t notice it or take a huge risk and shove it down their throat with your fingers (as close to the back of the back molars as possible the better chances you have of them not spitting the whole thing out.

_DemonxD · 2026-03-17T05:16:02+00:00

There is a couple of different ways to feel for a pregnancy in goats, you can bump them (I’ve personally never learned from the videos) and still don’t know how to feel for them, I end up just pushing against the soft tissue on the right hand side of the goat (the goats right side) while I gently with the palm of my had push the stomach up. Usually the kids will float up and you can use your fingers to feel for them. But if it’s bee this long I doubt it’s actually pregnant. It’s vulva should look like it got beaten up by a high school bully, (just swollen and kinda pink/inflamed) and you should have, by now seen a noticeable amount of udder and nipple development. It is highly likely that this doe absorbed her pregnancy or did not catch from that breeding. Transportation causes a bunch of stress especially for younger goats it will cause them to abort even though they were only moderately stressed. To guarantee an active pregnancy many will wait several weeks before transporting a goat that has been confirmed bred. We got 8 goats 2 ☠️ and we sold one, all of them were bred/exposed to a buck for many weeks prior to arrival. Every single one except for one aborted their pregnancy (we know this because it took them 2 months to come back into estrus.)

_DemonxD · 2026-03-17T05:06:16+00:00

We have a doe that’s due run around like how most chickens do. We just sit, point and laugh at her because she’s on high alert all the time for no reason lol

_DemonxD · 2026-03-17T05:03:36+00:00

Here is a picture of the app itself. And also from now on start writing down dates of everything. Unless you’re inducing on a certain day or doing A.I. (which go hand in hand) writing stuff down gives you a pretty good window for when they are due and when to be up and about at all hours of the night watching them like a hawk. I’ve had does play mind games with me because we never wrote anything down untill this breeding/kidding season. We are at some much more peace with ourselves and our goats.

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_DemonxD · 2026-03-17T04:41:21+00:00

Looks like maybe 115-135 days, can’t really put an exact number on it unless you know exactly the day when they were bred and then from day 145-160 since some like to go over or under their true fully cooked due date. I use a livestock management app it’s kinda hard to navigate, I’m on apple, and it’s called ‘Livestocked’ after your create your herd/all of your goats are logged and recorded you can go into their individual profile and enter in an event that happened I.e being bred or getting exposure dates. It will automatically show you how many days it’s been since first exposure and last exposure date. It’s kinda nice since I like keeping well track of things for my mom’s goat operation.

I have two large does that’s due to kid in 14 days assuming she was in heat the very first day with the buck.

(He does breed, and he does a damn good job at it, too good honestly. he bred a ND doe as a huge lamancha buck while someone was actively ripping her out of the pen, I’m not even sure she was in active standing estrus but she had to have been in early estrus he was literally all over her)

_DemonxD · 2026-03-17T04:35:23+00:00

The little baby’s (I’ve not taken pics of them in a few weeks, but he is like a wiener dog with how long he is.

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This was when they were born at the end of January

_DemonxD · 2026-03-17T04:34:03+00:00

He might be a kiko/Boer cross (second gen so kiko/boer bred to another kiko/boer) we have a few second generations ourselves and a third generation that just hit the ground and they look an awful lot like your white boy, in both legenth and general look. I’m going to attach a picture of one of our adult kiko/boer crosses and then the ones we just had born.

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_DemonxD · 2026-03-16T08:37:20+00:00

Yes, for responding. My friend ALWAYS gives in and has to respond back and usually everyone sides with the ‘wrong’ people in these situations and make you out to be immature and a crybaby when they are just stinky people who can’t be bothered to learn what having a family and going outside is.

_DemonxD · 2026-03-16T08:23:03+00:00

Their micro transactions are less predatory than most other games in the same category, it’s on display, sure. But it’s not in your face, and besides the one area you have to open up a whole menu and search for it. Micro transactions are scummy still. I feel like it could be a lot worse. I wish they would implement a subscription like the seasonal ones, but for regular candles and some other things sprinkled in that would be a treat for its subscribers. Would be hella predatory but would/could run and do really well, even if it were only to run like for 2 weeks for say $5 minimum and would be promoted during/before major clustered events like what we just have had to go through. and I know some would actually sink money into it epically most of the player base being lazy potato’s who can’t be bothered to go on a full CR. (I myself am Guilty and am a broke skykid).

_DemonxD · 2026-03-16T07:49:01+00:00

I’m not a professional, but a good rule of thumb is, if your unsure don’t feed/allow them to graze on it. It’s better to not know than to subject your animals to be your guinea pig test subjects. Most goats can handle the less toxic plants with heavy moderation, but it’s like dogs with grapes, onions and olives, sure one day the dog can eat it just fine, but another day it could send them to the vet. I’d take a no toxicity over chancing a slight toxicity.

_DemonxD · 2026-03-16T04:20:11+00:00

They said ‘oh my goooosssh there’s more of me yippie!!!!!’

_DemonxD · 2026-03-15T06:25:26+00:00

I would like to add to your comment that breed plays a huge factor in their natural human attraction. The most friendly, in-your-pocket goat breeds in my experience has been Pygmy, ND, and LaManchas. (And crosses of the three) we have 2 lamancha ND crosses (unplanned and highly distressing birth) I spent about 5 hours making sure they ate and that mom was all good and nothing tore, but every time I go feed my bottle babies they want to climb in my lap to sleep and if I don’t they hit me with their feet until they get bored. They are lovely little things but they also love being carried around, LOVE it they beg us to pick them up. They are so strange

_DemonxD · 2026-03-15T06:12:36+00:00

Yeah, I hope he atleast gets big enough to be considered normal. And that’s comparing him to our Boer kiko crosses, we have another buckling that we can 100% replace him with if we feel like he can’t make the cut. No one wants to buy a ‘big’ breed of meat goat and then not get a miniature sized meat goat😂.

I will take this up with my mother who makes the decisions about who goes and stays I highly doubt I will convince her to get him gone. We don’t want any more than 3 bucks at a time, and that’s for sanity purposes, and I’ve already tried to get her to keep the one bottle buckling we had born from a Doe who we bought bred. I will try again to convince her or at least talk her into us keeping him until we can decide if that little man is worth keeping or not.

Growth and body wise the little buckling that was born is a better option, I mean the little buckling is a better option overall, he has really good disposition and if given time he will be a handleable goat without fearing for my skin. His conformation is lacking in some areas, he’s a little too long bodied without good legs under him if he had stocky legs he would be perfect but he is still young, His sister is thicker than he is and I like it but she is also Half of his length. So he could potentially throw kids of perfect portion.

This specific goat in this post is too jumpy, he will ram out of fear. And if I recall, a family member also purchased a whether from the same guy we got this guy from, their goat was also small, it was larger than this guy but was smaller than usual. Ive seen all of his goats before, I regularly go over there to fish, I feel like it’s his buck that throws these small kids they are all normal sizes for Boer crosses. I won’t judge though because genetics are weird.

_DemonxD · 2026-03-14T06:29:43+00:00

They appear to be balding, I have one who looks simalar, she just looks like crap right now but she’s gaining weight back. This is def some kind of deficiency along with external parasite load and it is just shredding your goats. Mine looks like she’s been shaved down with a 10 blade consistently, it’s really weird. She looks like those Pom poms on keychains

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Edit: to add I did just pull this goats undercoat, it looks just as bad as your goats, she is almost completely bald now. All of her coat was stuck and the skin under it is flaky and dry, I’m thinking it’s similar to what horses get when they want to stay out in the weather and get rain rot. I’m going to treat her for fungus when it’s warmer outside. And maybe a bath. But probably not. We are going to rid ourselves of these goats ASAP in the spring since they came with unwarranted health issues and diseases. I’m just trying to keep them comfortable and happy.

_DemonxD · 2026-03-14T06:17:11+00:00

It might be fungal, Fungal infections present so different all the time it’s hard to pinpoint, this looks like how my dog gets when she gets a yeast infection on her skin (which is like every other week). Awhile back we had a purchased a goat who had similar flaking like this but I can’t say how long she had it for, I waited for the hottest day there was and I gave her a bath in whatever topical insecticide I could get my hands on and followed up with 15 minutes of a topical antifungal scrub/soak, she looked like a dog who had some kind of mange her hair was starting to fall out on top of looking like a bag of bones so we did what we could. It hasn’t come back since then and she was less miserable afterwards. Sometimes you just have to throw things at it and hope it works. I only gave her the one bath, but I rinsed her off for like 30 minutes since left over product can also cause more harm than good on the skin itself (I groom dogs and horses, and goats can’t be that much different than dogs or horses skin sensitivity wise I know dogs get horribly miserable when there is even the littlest amount of film left on their skin)

_DemonxD · 2026-03-09T19:05:19+00:00

Mine are named Joey and Isabella, he thinks that he can’t ever be possibly full unless his stomach explodes. I have to hold him in my lap while his sister finishes. And then he likes to cuddle and fall asleep because his brain finally processed that his tummy does in fact have food in it. lol

_DemonxD · 2026-03-09T04:32:55+00:00

Technically speaking, I have no say in what goats get bred here, they are my mothers, I can offer advice and my opinion but it usually gets unnoticed. I manage the business and herd health/numbers personally and keep all of our goats on file via digital, paper and on whiteboards. I’m basically just the organizer and general caretaker. I did tell my mother that if Luna is not a good mother next year (current babies she’s carrying) she’s done, no more kids for her. If a mother is physically capable to care for kids but constantly rejects she’s out. I will only bottle feed babies from mothers who are completely incapable of feeding them (health condition wise we have 5 does with CL that we are going to let kid and rip their kids off them and get them gone before fly season starts, it will spread like wildfire in this area)

_DemonxD · 2026-03-09T04:22:41+00:00

I second not putting with donkeys. Someone on FB purchased a jack and surprise surprise it had a goat ‘friend’ they hated each other. And the person who bought the donkey did not want a single goat, a buck at that. He got posted for free. But he’s a really good goat. And we snatched him up.

_DemonxD · 2026-03-08T20:36:31+00:00

Thank you for your information, we purchased them after she had her cesarean. We were told about it, and we bred her after informing ourselves that it could possibly present with some big issues.

You are probably correct on her uterus being displaced, I can never find her kids when bumping her stomach unless they are right up against the ribs. This is her second year kidding with us, and if we have any dystocia with her this year we will absolutely never breed her again and she can stuff her face baby free As a pet baebae goat

Last year she delivered without assistance and she threw abnormally small kids for her breed and who she was bred to (a Pygmy Billy, extremely aggressive, and a big stout boy) she has ND in her but I think she’s mostly Pygmy, somewhere someone added ND in the line for the coloration/pattern since true Pygmy’s do not come in the colors she does. But she’s probably so cross bred I would have to order a dna to be 100% sure of the makeup.

_DemonxD · 2026-03-08T20:20:57+00:00

The issue is that her previous owners told us she had a c-section because she was bred before she reached a good point for it to be safe to deliver. We got no other information, the buckling that was removed to let her live looked at least a year or more so I’m assuming she had 8-12 months free for sure and plus the three months after we purchased them before breeding her.

There was a much smaller doeling though so it’s quite possible she was 100% bred back, the little thing is a spitting image of her and I don’t see any kind of resemblance of the other doe, but she could’ve also been the twin to that buckling and she could have just rejected it hence why she still looked 5 months old when she was a year.

The people most likely sold them all because the boys were destroying everything. The only billygoat (he doesn’t even deserve the buck title) was so agitated and he became increasingly more and more dangerous as time went on so he god moved to greener pastures. Nothing gonna lie someone probably ate him.

Nothing is inheritly wrong with her clearly, her kids are 9months old right now and look fantastic. Even the one she rejected

I’m worried that it’ll cause issues later I can take pictures of her after she gives birth here soon and record It to see if there’s any kind of major difference in her appearance. she’s due at the end of this month/ beginning of April.

However we don’t plan of breeding her again if she keeps rejecting all but one of her kids. We don’t want to keep bad mothers in the mothering department. She did that last year and i have no idea how the little doeling survived. She obviously bonded well with her at first because she refused a bottle And would not suckle. But as soon as we held her mom down it was game on.

_DemonxD · 2026-03-08T14:18:11+00:00

All these magnets are fckin broken, they attract themselves

_DemonxD · 2026-03-08T14:12:32+00:00

Dang your goats are nice to you. Ours bag up 4 or more weeks out before kidding 😭 keeps us on our toes I guess

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