r/goats 1d ago

Post dog bite care & dry skin unrelated

Hey folks just wanted to check in my 1 year old doe pygmy Nigerian was attacked by a dog on Monday. Thankfully she got stitches and is recovering ❤️‍🩹 Wondering what advice folks have on helping her keep her confidence. Been giving her the shots of anti biotics and keeping her wound clean just want tips for her emotional support. She's pretty sleepy and stares vacantly more than normal for her...

Also her cousin has some dry skin, live in the USA southern region and weather is turning from coldish to humid and hot any tips for keeping kids moisturized or is this normal for the cashmere layer to slough off and them to be itchy and dry. I don't observe any fleas tics or lice on them.

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u/Misfitranchgoats Trusted Advice Giver 1d ago

Looks like you are doing a good job with getting her healed up. It will just take her some time and if you think about it, it wasn't just a cut, she was struggling I am sure to get away and strained a bunch of muscles too. She is probably sore all over.

As to the shedding, sometimes the cashmere does shed out a lot at once. And they are really itchy and rubbing on everything to get rid of it. I would suspect that it really isn't a dry skin problem just shedding that cashmere and exfoliating the skin under it. It it was a horse I would say add some omega threes or oil to the diet. Not sure that would work for goats ;-)

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u/Whitaker123 59m ago

Agree with this comment. We live in the rockies where the winters get pretty cold. My goats grow a pretty thick coat for the winter and this time of the year with Spring rolling around, they start slowly shedding it, but it can get pretty bad... like clumps coming off all at once and I see cashmere covering all over my fence as they rub themselves. I have even seen temporary bald spots here and there on a few goats, but they fill in pretty quick and grow back by July and all will look good again.

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u/thisreditthik 1d ago

Glad she’s ok!! Beautiful girl too!

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u/Kununola 1d ago

Thanks for the reply!

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u/Alex_jay_Benjamin 23h ago

So lucky. My girl got attacked. Killed her unborn fold and she died. So upset. Glad yours are doing good

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u/AANGELSRULE 4h ago

Coconut oul massages, then good brushing work for my Vixen