Seems goats don"t
show sickness like other aninmals until they are half dead on their feet. When they do start looking sick, seems it is pretty hard to get them back up on their feet and hard to keep them "on the right side of the grass". Had them looking fine with very very slighty soft "poo", well within the range of normal, and the next morning they were deader than a door nail. autospy said all sorts of things were wrong, but they had looked and acted well.
Seems they may possibly do better in a drier climate than coastal weather, less parasites/ cocci etc. Having a Billy goat around is
guarenteed to keep sickness away, they smell so bad nothing would come around to transmit any kind of disease!!! :lol2: :lol2:
:lol2: Yes had a few Buck goats around, so know what I am talking about!! Even "fried" the scent gland on the head with a de-horner, which helped, but they still stunk....
Have heard some breeds don't stink as much, but don't know about that.
Personally wouldn't want a buck goat in with dairy animals as if they rubbed up against your milk cow, she would take on the very ripe buck smell, and you have to get close to milk her..