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04/12/11, 04:46 PM
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How on earth do these things happen?
Many of you have seen the pics I posted earlier bout the Togg doe I bought recently. And her two little boys. In the pic you can see the spacing of the oak boards I used to build my barn. No big gaps anywhere. Well little boy in that pic has learned to run from one wall to the other, jump up a few feet against the wall and bounce off, then on to the other side. He usually does that for about 5 minutes till he's tired. Today DH found him HANGING upside down from a hind leg! He must have been playing and managed to stick his hind leg through the opening between the boards. It must have just happened, DH freed him and he can walk. He is not dragging his leg, but it is very sore. I'm so lucky DH was there. Perhaps I will have to line the stall with plywood? I think it was more of a freak accident. Those boards are about 2" thick oak, how in the world did he spring one of them?
Anyone ever have this happen to thier goats?
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04/12/11, 04:51 PM
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You would be amazed at some of the configurations that, to my mind, HAVE to be impossible by the laws of physics, gravity, nature or mathematics, I have found my goats in.
"How did s/he DO that?!?" is a phrase I repeat at least weekly.
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04/12/11, 04:56 PM
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This is why I LOVE SHEEP!!!
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04/12/11, 04:56 PM
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I agree w/ CaliannG, I gave up trying to figure out how the goats get in some situations, it was just too mentally exhausting. Try getting pygmys or another small breed, it is worse.
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04/12/11, 05:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fowler
This is why I LOVE SHEEP!!!
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Really? Are sheep less likely to get into trouble? I have been considering a couple of ewes : )
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04/12/11, 05:28 PM
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The crazy part is, you should have seen the place I brought them home from. It was a disaster waiting to happen. Then they come home to me and this happens!
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04/12/11, 05:47 PM
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Unbelievable the messes they can get themselves into! I've had a couple of wing-dingies here. Perhaps we ought to start a thread on the absurd situations we've witnessed or come upon.
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04/12/11, 06:02 PM
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I'd just use some narrow strips of wood to cover the gaps
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04/12/11, 06:46 PM
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Thank God your hubby was there! I'm so glad he is ok .....
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04/12/11, 06:47 PM
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Goats get into the darnest situations for sure! Thank Goodness your hubby was home & happened to check on the goats!
I am forever covering a gap in something, pounding in a nail that is sticking up, etc. since I'm always worried about someone getting hurt.
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04/12/11, 06:52 PM
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I have a small, young doe who has gotten into the habit of leaping over our 5 foot gate when we're feeding grain to the does one at a time, because she has a really hard time waiting her turn, or accepting the fact that she's already had her turn... 
I don't know how something so small can jump so high 
Flying goats are stressful...
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04/12/11, 06:57 PM
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Poor baby. I'm glad you found him so quickly.
My goaties did that when they were small. They're too pudgy to do it any more 
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04/12/11, 11:20 PM
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Really? Are sheep less likely to get into trouble? I have been considering a couple of ewes : )
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Very, very, very little...very easy going...or at least mine are. Just like their momma....LOL
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04/13/11, 09:31 AM
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One of my nubian yearlings got her leg behind a board that was apparently pulled back and had a nail above her hock holding her there. She had the leg bent behind her stuck like this. She also got her foot a little twisted and stuck in another little notch. So she was all twisted up. I don't know how long she had been there, she was moaning. Took over a week for her to start walking again. Her leg swelled up like a baloon! She is doing real well now but her hind end atrophied some. Poor girl. At least she's getting her tude back. I had to keep her seperated as the other goats would be mean to her. Now she'll fight back.
This happened the same day my 18 yr old border collie ended up way down the big hill stuck laying down between two logs. Could not find her and she spent the night there in the cold mist poor thing. Next morning I found her and had to carry her up the hill. She couldn't stand. By the evening she could stand and walk but I had to get her up. By the next day she was getting up on her own 
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04/13/11, 09:49 AM
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yYour tog doe is beautiful. I'm glad your boy is Ok with nothing broken.
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04/15/11, 05:38 PM
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Yesterday he was running around in a circle playing : ) He is still carrying the leg and being super careful with it, but it didn't swell much at all, and the tendons in the back seem untouched. The front of his cannon bone is skinned quite bad and will be sore for a while. Luckily he never missed a meal during the whole ordeal. Yes, we are going to line the stall with plywood, then they will find some other way to hurt themselves.
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04/15/11, 05:53 PM
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I can swing a gate shut and not latch it and my ewes respect it as long as it is "shut". A few lambs do jump (I knew one that jumped 8 foot fences for food) but not a lot of them do.
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04/15/11, 07:29 PM
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Quote:
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Really? Are sheep less likely to get into trouble? I have been considering a couple of ewes : )
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Not so fast. I have been bottle raising a ewe lamb who got stuck in the fence so badly, she tore her hind leg muscle and ligaments. She found a way to sneak into the goat pasture to graze. In the process, she bent a wire joining two peices of fencing which impaled her back leg and while getting out of the mess, ripped her muscle. She had to be stiched up and has been rehabing with the goats and is now raised on goat's milk, so she got her wish and is on the goat side. Sheep can ocassionally be sneaky too was my long winded reply. Of course, she comes hobbling up to me for her bottle full of goats' milk, so it is cute.
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04/15/11, 08:11 PM
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yah but lambs are sooooooooo much cuter than kids. Just look
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04/15/11, 08:54 PM
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My Silver Surfer when he was quite small caught a foot in the space between the door and jamb of an open door.
I was blessed to have found him in time.
Yip yip yip.
How how how?
***shruggy***
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