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Knees clicking
Now Frankie's front knees are making a clicking noise when he walks. I manually bent each leg and they click. No swelling or lameness. Everything else is normal. Anyone else have goats with clicking knees?
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my knees are clicking, does that count? 
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My knees click, too, but I'm probably older than your goat.:banana02:
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09/24/09, 05:00 PM
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Frankie will be 2 in January. So am I worrying for nothing? Is it a sign that he might need some joint supplement?
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09/24/09, 05:06 PM
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I have a couple that click. Neg CAE tests all around.
And yes, my own knees click as well.
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09/24/09, 05:10 PM
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minelson make sure hs hoofs are properly trimmed or he will need knee replacement surgery when he gets older
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09/24/09, 05:22 PM
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minelson make sure hs hoofs are properly trimmed or he will need knee replacement surgery when he gets older |
LOL! and he would probably get the surgery too the way I am 
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I asked the same thing in another forum when I noticed my Brownie's knees clicking while she was preggers (they seem to have stopped since she kidded. I think it was the extra weight.) Everyone told me it was normal.  Apparently it's just something goats do to make their owners nervous....it's all a conspiracy!
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09/24/09, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Wonderland
I asked the same thing in another forum when I noticed my Brownie's knees clicking while she was preggers (they seem to have stopped since she kidded. I think it was the extra weight.) Everyone told me it was normal. Apparently it's just something goats do to make their owners nervous....it's all a conspiracy! |
Thank you Wonderland...ok..that makes me feel better
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I'm with Wonderland, clicking with the extra weight here. Not all my goats just a couple. Same clicking year after year during heavy pregnancy. What town are you near Wonderland?
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when i had pygmys it was allways "snap, crackel and pop" lol!
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when i had pygmys it was allways "snap, crackel and pop" lol!
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Whew! Frankie is 1/2 Pygmy - 1/2 ND
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iv noticed that the pygmys usually have very loud knees at least taht way they can never ambush you!
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I'm with Wonderland, clicking with the extra weight here. Not all my goats just a couple. Same clicking year after year during heavy pregnancy. What town are you near Wonderland?
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I'm in the "greater Memphis area." Which I do not like, because I don't like Memphis, but it'll do for now!
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I have a wether that clicked really bad when I got him, and someone here said that they increased the calcium on a goat they had and it went away, so I make sure they have plenty of minerals and alf. pellets, and the clicking is going away, its only been a couple of months.
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I remember reading about clicking joints on goats somewhere....? It seemed that a mineral was reccomended but I don't remember for sure...I wonder if it was zinc? But better do some searching cause I'm not sure. Might have been here or in DGI. I have a couple that are clicking adn I was gonna remember what it was....I gotta start writing more stuff down.
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It's usually a conformation fault. Buck knees, where they have indentations of the back of the leg bone that buldge forward or over at the knees, where the knees set forward over the cannon bone. Both put stress on the joints of the knees and make them buldge.
On my website lonesomedoenubians.com look at Birdy's front legs, she is over at the knee and clicks, hers was caused nutritonally by kidding at 11 months old, although at 8 she is sound, in her it just looks bad. We know this is not genetic as she has lovely daughters showing and sons working in herds all over. Vicki
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Take one from the side, with the camera even with the knee.
Birdy is a beautiful girl, but even a new person can see her cannon bone is bowed. Vicki
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Ok...I will do that before it gets dark.
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