Goats mysterious hair loss? Solved!

[Citychick]

Okay two of our goats were missing very small patches of hair one on the shoulder and one on the back right between the shoulders. I thought the smaller goat was rubbing on the fence and maybe rubbed some off. But then our buck had a small patch missing also. Well yesterday I go out and the buck is missing more hair and it was uneven and yellow? So now I'm looking around and trying to find the source.... I thought maybe someone chewed the hair but why the color? So I caught him and looked really close and noticed a smell? Burnt hair, the idiot had gotten into the area for the chickens. I have a lamp hung in there high enough I didn't think there would be a problem but he must have jumped up to try and mount the female and caught his hair on fire via the light bulb.? The predicaments these animals seem to get into. So now I have moved the lamp and blocked the area a little better. Hope it works!

[Minelson]

oh jeez! I am so glad you figured it out before a tragedy. I put chicken wire around mine so that it would be impossible for the bulb to ever make contact with anything. I am a so paranoid about fire. It is also impossible for the lamp to fall, or swing..I used wire and chain to stablize it. AND I only use it if the temp in the barn gets below zero..once so far this year and only one time last year.
Whew! so glad you figured it out

[canadiangirl]

I had a doe this fall with mysterious hair loss too. Up one side of her neck and shoulder. I couldn't figure it out, I was looking for scabs and cysts feaking out and completely baffled...until I seen her stretching through the fence on the far side of the pasture trying to reach downed apples through the fence. One apple was only a few inches from her nose and she must have kept trying for it. I gave her the apple and her hair is now growing back, silly thing.

[andrea65]

My goat used to lose hair and someone told me it was copper defiency. As long as I was giving her a mineral supplement( I use Dr. Reed's for horses,I'm in BC,Canada)she was okay.

That boy needs to learn that doing the deed will get you into trouble sometimes!

(Is it OK that I'm laughing at the mental pic of this poor guy getting burned by love?!)

[southerngurl]

Gosh, be careful, that sounds like a fire waiting to happen.