Maybe we'll stick with fixing DD1's 4 wheeler after all lol!!
AaaaHaaa. The ole switcharoo tactics.
Keep her happy with a battery charger, not a hay burner.
Minis USED to be very expensive. Now, unless you promote widely and show, etc., they are cheap. I had my time with them and we made money but, spent a lot to do so. it was fun. Most I ever paid was $15K for one but a yr later he had shown to a Natl Champ halter animal, at 15 yrs of age, and I got stud fees up the gazoo. He was only 27" at withers, tiny and very correct. Still sold him a few years later for $55K. Yeah, fun.
We got out of them when DH got the big C.
So NOW -- today my beautiful, athletic, always a PITA coming 2 y/o doe tried to jump a fence. Goes over 4' like a deer, this one a little taller and a CP, so not forgiving. She caught her rear leg, snapped the bone and has a lovely compound fracture
. Yep, she was hobbling and I went to check, there it was bone & all looking at me. Not bleeding or such. I wrapped it in clean cloth & but vet wrap to hold it on--keep flies away, no more dirt/grass in it. Not a reset thing and she will have to be put down.
Vet would be min $700 and that's because leg would have to be off about 3' above ankle. So, if she didn't get infected, etc., a 3 legged goat and huge bill. Can't justify that. Just can't1 So, asked around to find a hunter who would do the deed and help butcher....I'd give them most of the meat (I'd want a piece to try it -- haven't had goat in yrs.) 2 didn't want to shoot for "only" broken leg.
How about, she isn't going to live with it??!! People butcher goats for meat all the time! Geesh. I have NEVER done from step one on an animal like this … really don't want to do the kill but -- I may be becoming EXTREMELY SS in a short while. I don't want to wait beyond tomorrow morning as I do not want to have her like this and risk ANY issues with the meat. I am hoping the neighbor behind me -- who deer hunts! -- will say yes when he gets home tonight. While I hate to lose her, I sure can't see SSS and wasting a good amount of meat.
If Baymule were here we'd be grilling by now!!
You're doing the right thing with and for her.
