
01/20/14, 08:26 PM
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Jhn Boy ina D Trump world
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: NC
Posts: 2,394
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Help... Strange behavior in my head doe
I've got a weird phenomenon going on with my Queen doe. She was bred November 20th; she's a really nice lamancha doe. Last Friday she was fine, Saturday she was fine.... then Sunday I go out to feed their grain and she isn't running me over for the bucket.... so I pour the feed into their trough and she took one VERY small bite, then walked away.... this is so unlike her, or any other goat, to forgo grain. I stayed with her a bit and checked her over. I checked her eyelids, checked for injuries, etc. I didn't see her grinding her teeth, so she didn't seem to be in pain by my observation. However, a REALLY strange thing she was doing was stretching her neck out long, and sideways, like a cow bellowing, but she wasn't making any sound. She obviously felt bad. As she did the stretching neck thing, a couple of times she would lay her head over on one of the other doelings standing beside her.
Tonight, she met me for the grain and seed much more interested in it..... actually headbutted one of the other doelings in the head for not letting her get to her normal spot at the trough......
Could it just have possibly been pregnancy sickness last night? lol I know it seems weird, but hey, humans get it, i guess goats could too.
Any ideas?
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