What is it??

[HazyDay]

Now all I see is "HELP MY BUCK!" is it the annual sick month for bucks??? I hope mine forgets!

[GSFarm]

Ditto! On all the other goat boards it's the same thing. I knew taking the computer lab out of the barn was a good idea. Now they won't get the memo!

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

When bucks move from eating pasture and browse to only the diet their breeders feed them, plus they are thin from rut, they go down quickly. They are put back into their lonely little pen, nothing to keep them warm, poor quality hay, sweet feed which causes urinary calculi, they are rarely wormed, rarely get their feet trimmed, they are the forgotten unless they get sick. Lots of bucks die during the winter. Lots of does die in the last weeks of pregnancy and about a week afterwards. Thousands of goatlings die right after birth and millions die before weaning. Forums ebb and flow, but these facts stay true each year every year. Vicki

[HazyDay]

Yes, I could never do that to my boy! For one I want his feet to be good as I do plan on selling him, and I just couldn't be mean. Ours does get good hay and lots of love! But I do limit his grain to the same as a dry doe.

[HazyDay]

Plus my buck has never ate pasture in his whole 11 month life! (a few trees now and then.)

[christij]

My young fellow has been with the ladies - same diet - pellets and hay and what ever they get from the fields. He looks lanky but I have attributed it to rut and a growth spurt. But after seeing all the threads I'm going to give a head to toe exam today just to be on the safe side! It's been cold and the rain we needed earlier in the year seems to decided to make an end of the year apperance!

[ozark_jewels]

Here we are having the first bad weather of December. Most bucks are ragged after working all fall and many have not had the attention they need but is easy to forget. Its a hard time for bucks, they should be watched especially carefully right now and maybe given some special attention to get back into shape.

[christij]

Guy recieved a CDT vacc, probios and decided to have his toes done while he was in the parlor. Eyelids looked good too. I would like to see some more spunk out of him today though -- he must save it for the ladies b/c last weekend he was chasing poor Cassie around - it was very comical to watch. Would rut prevent him for having the hay belly that the rest of the herd is showing? He is getting alfalfa pellets and whatever grain he theives from the ladies. They finished off the brome/fescue round and will be switching over to oat hay in the next few days.

[deafgoatlady]

Vicki is right about that part.. Yes it is sad. But it is the fact for most people do that. Look at my buck that passed away. I couldnt believe it becuz He always stay with my girls and eat the same thing like my girls eats. No alfalfa hay. U know. I give the worm medication to the buck and everything becuz I think the buck should be treated the same thing as girls. That is how I feel . But Sadly that my mother in law put my buck by himself and it was hard on him and gave him alfalfa hay and left him outside not inside the barn while it is freezing rain (which i told her NOT DO THAT but she refuse to listen to my advice).. So I want to say that dont let the buck go to someone's house. Just be sure have them to bring the girls to ur farm if u want do the stuf service of ur choice. I let MIL becuz she is relative. I did that for free. PLEASE BE CAREFUL!!! Bucks are not bad as girls.. Please think twice.


Like Vicki said. It is very true..