Post by AnnB (NE) on Jan 4, 2007 9:07:46 GMT -5
My Nubian buck, Bounty, was disbudded at 3 weeks of age, but the person who did it didn't do a very good job and he has scurs. Well, his scurs were twisting around so that they were going to start growing into his head in another month or so, so I made an appointment with the vet to have them removed.
Vet was running late, so his assistant suggested that I leave the goat and come back later to pick him up, which I did.
When I went in to pick him up, the staff didn't say much, just commented on how well behaved he is for a breeding buck. I was loading him up in the truck when the vet himself came running out. He told me that poor Bounty didn't do well with the anesthesia, he had a reaction and had to have CPR. The vet said that he never again wants to be put in the position of having to give mouth-to-mouth to a goat!
Bounty is in a dog crate on my porch, doing quite well this morning. Doing well enough that I'm finding the mental image of the vet giving him mouth-to-mouth to be quite amusing -- Bounty is one of those bucks who sprays urine on his chest, neck, and face.
Here he is at 3 months old (he's 10 months now and much prettier, his points are darker and he now has a black collar/ruff)
And poor Fancy had quite the day also.
She has taken the 2 calves with no problem, so yesterday morning after she nursed them, I let her take them out into the pasture with her (about 2 acres). It was the first time that the calves had been out of their pen and they took off like little rockets, in opposite directions. Poor Fancy about lost it! She didn't know which calf to follow, she ran down the pasture zig-zagging, first heading toward one calf, then toward the other. Finally she stopped, stood there, and just bellowed and bellowed. When they came back to her, she led them to the pen, and literally PUSHED each of them through the gate, then gave me a look that said "HURRY - SHUT THE GATE BEFORE THEY GET OUT AGAIN!!"
Ann B
Vet was running late, so his assistant suggested that I leave the goat and come back later to pick him up, which I did.
When I went in to pick him up, the staff didn't say much, just commented on how well behaved he is for a breeding buck. I was loading him up in the truck when the vet himself came running out. He told me that poor Bounty didn't do well with the anesthesia, he had a reaction and had to have CPR. The vet said that he never again wants to be put in the position of having to give mouth-to-mouth to a goat!
Bounty is in a dog crate on my porch, doing quite well this morning. Doing well enough that I'm finding the mental image of the vet giving him mouth-to-mouth to be quite amusing -- Bounty is one of those bucks who sprays urine on his chest, neck, and face.
Here he is at 3 months old (he's 10 months now and much prettier, his points are darker and he now has a black collar/ruff)
And poor Fancy had quite the day also.
She has taken the 2 calves with no problem, so yesterday morning after she nursed them, I let her take them out into the pasture with her (about 2 acres). It was the first time that the calves had been out of their pen and they took off like little rockets, in opposite directions. Poor Fancy about lost it! She didn't know which calf to follow, she ran down the pasture zig-zagging, first heading toward one calf, then toward the other. Finally she stopped, stood there, and just bellowed and bellowed. When they came back to her, she led them to the pen, and literally PUSHED each of them through the gate, then gave me a look that said "HURRY - SHUT THE GATE BEFORE THEY GET OUT AGAIN!!"
Ann B