Help! Pygmy w/ lame leg

[TxCloverAngel]

My sweet Daisy (8 1/2 mo old) will not bare any weight on her front leg. She hops around holding it off of the ground.

I am assuming that she hurt it last evening, I noticed it this morning, but when I went to put everyone to bed lastnight, she was sleeping in her corner, instead of in the hen house that I usually have to shoo them out of every night.

She will kneel down on her front knees to eat, so I'm thinking that its in her lower leg. When I feel her leg I don't feel anything odd, broken, swollen etc.. her foot/hoof looks fine...

What should I do? leave it alone and watch her? Splint her anyway? Is there anything I can give her for pain/antiinflammatory things?

I hate seeing her hurting ... I feel so helpless!

[crazygoatgirl]

If her hoves are up to date on trimming it shouldn't be her feet. Feel around her pastern...the area between the declaw and the hoof. See if she has any swelling or tenderness there. If she isn't bred you can give her a shot of Banamine for pain....only once every 24 hours though and she probably only needs about a 1/4 of 1 cc...that is what I would give a goat this age/size(assuming she is a standard size goat)

[mary,tx]

Did you check between her hoof? If there is nothing in it, and nothing wrong with the hoof, I don't believe it would hurt to splint it for a few days to see if that helps. Goats will sometimes break a leg for no good reason except for jumping on it wrong.
Splinting is easy, just be sure to go above the next joint, and wrap upwards, not too tight.
mary