I am asking a question for a friend

[Becky]

My friend is in a situation similar to mine--but in some ways worse. She is having to "rent" pasture for her goats. However, the pasture owner has insisted that he wants no cash payment. The owner didn't have his own goats at first--shortly after she put her goats on his property, however, the pasture owner decided to get his own. One of them is a 4 month old buck. The two herds started out being in separate pens. After a couple of weeks of weeks, the property owner decided he didn't like my friend's goats in the pen where they were at and moved her goats into the same pen as his goats, so that the two herds were mixed. He absolutely refused to let her take her separate her goats from his unless she found another pasture to take her goats to, and she couldn't find any other pasture to rent. Shes' wishing now that she had gone with someone that charged her money because maybe she would have had more say. Now she's concerned because one of her younger does looks like it might be pregnant. This doe is too young physically to actually have been bred. Since I was already going through a similar problem of my own and had gotten ideas of what to do, she asked me for advice. So, I am asking everyone here. Does she have recourse?? Since the doe she is worried about is only 4 months old and a pygmy, what should she do? It was bred with a boer buck. She has no bucks of her own. Should she take it to a vet to make sure? If it is pregnant, should she go to the owner with the vet bills and ask him to pay? He insisted that his buck wouldn't be able to breed yet, but his buck is 4 months old, which does make it possible. Any help and ideas I can give her would be greatly appreciated!

[DQ]

give the doe lute to abort any possble fetus while still small enough not to cause problems... hopefully. Get the goats out of there somehow even if you have to sell or drylot them. if this was an unofficial deal than just consider it a lesson learned. I suppose you could go through small claims but I don't really think it would be worth it. the lesson is the payment. be thankful this lesson was learned on a few goats and not a big land/money/business deal. have a contract. make it legit. define the terms of agreements. don't leave stuff open for interpretation.

[Becky]

DQ,

What is lute and where would I tell her to find it?

[mamajohnson]

Becky, it is lutalyse, and I believe you have to get it from a vet.
I may be wrong tho.

I would suggest the same thing. 4 mo old pygmy might die having a boar kid.

[Becky]

Thank you, Mamajohnson! I will let my friend know right away.