When dealing with goats, it is always something.  As I talk to people across the country, this is a constant, regardless of climate and weather.  Battling worms, having hoof problems, bucks aren’t aggressive, does aren’t coming into heat, limping goats, destructive does, coccidi problems, stones, fungus,  bad flush #s, good flush #s but low embryo retention rates, sale kids aren’t blooming, sore mouth, dead goat (and there is a long list that causes this).

All livestock have their problems.  But I do feel that goats have way more than most.  Sometimes, I wonder if a lot of us spend too much time and effort trying to manage this miserable beasts at a high level.  We must remember that GOD put these things on this Earth to roam and eat crap that no other animal wanted to eat.  And here we are trying to feed corn/alfalfa/soybean based feeds to them in a confinement setting while trying to manipulate reproductive cycles.

I hope that you have a good one and a better tomorrow.  But, if you have goats, there is a high probability that it won’t be a good one.