buck keeps scratching his head

[haphaz_farm]

one of my bucks rubbed a spot on his head a couple of weeks ago, it opened up and started to bleed. i cleaned it off and put some fight back on it but now he keeps scratching and rubbing his head on the fence, the feeder, the climbing toys, everything, and he rubbed a pretty good sized hole in his head.

up until yesterday it was only a small scratch but now it looks like about a nickle sized hole. he is eating fine and running around acting like a loony as usual but i am a bit concerned he will just keep making it bigger.

how do you keep a goat from rubbing its head? i dont really thing a plastic cone would work. and is there anything else i should be putting on there other than fight back?

[shiandpete.1]

Ours keep scratching their heads too...and saying hmmmm why can't I breed all those 6-7 month old babies! HaHaHa sorry couldn't help myself! (Couldn't you all just picture them scratching their heads with their hooves, and pulling their beards?)

Anyways could you take a pic of it? If it is a nice round "sore" kinda scaly, bleeding but then gets scabby and scaley I would vote for ring worm. I use fluid film on ring worm, but first I scrape it down until it bleeds and then spray it. The goats hate it but it clears it up after a couple of treatments. It has been a couple of years since we had ring worm, we got it at the county fair...that is so irritatiing!

[stanb999]

Originally Posted by haphaz_farm

one of my bucks rubbed a spot on his head a couple of weeks ago, it opened up and started to bleed. i cleaned it off and put some fight back on it but now he keeps scratching and rubbing his head on the fence, the feeder, the climbing toys, everything, and he rubbed a pretty good sized hole in his head.

up until yesterday it was only a small scratch but now it looks like about a nickle sized hole. he is eating fine and running around acting like a loony as usual but i am a bit concerned he will just keep making it bigger.

how do you keep a goat from rubbing its head? i dont really thing a plastic cone would work. and is there anything else i should be putting on there other than fight back?

Does the poor fellow have horns?