glenolam
Lovin' The Homestead
Here's the scoop.
Most of you know I've had the same few does for quite some time. I'll admit I'm attached to them and take great pride in their health. Afterall, healthy goats = less you really have to do for them, right?
I don't go around checking hooves on a weekly or even monthly basis, but I do keep on top of them. Call it a pet peeve if you want, but when I see a hoof that's starting to get that curl, it's gotta go. If I see the "toe" is pointy, it's gotta get clipped short. If they don't look like the "hoof trimming pictures" you see, I make it look like that.
I just aquired four new goats and, if you read my journal you know they wear fancy pants and come with registration papers. They've all been shown in 4H and/or ADGA shows.
So, why is it that their hooves were so overgrown it was causing them to limp, favor one leg, do what little g calls "Parade walk" (lifting up their hooves high as if to kick) etc? Don't take this as an attack against their previous owners, by the way. I know we're all different and have different views on what is "right". There was no neglect occuring at all and all girls are healthy otherwise - just had bad looking hooves, according to me.
That said, on the pretense that I'm not attacking anyone's ability or lack there of in trimming hooves, let me ask you - do you think it's me? I am that much of a perfectionist? Am I over-reacting when it comes to their feet?
FWIW my husband thinks so.
Most of you know I've had the same few does for quite some time. I'll admit I'm attached to them and take great pride in their health. Afterall, healthy goats = less you really have to do for them, right?
I don't go around checking hooves on a weekly or even monthly basis, but I do keep on top of them. Call it a pet peeve if you want, but when I see a hoof that's starting to get that curl, it's gotta go. If I see the "toe" is pointy, it's gotta get clipped short. If they don't look like the "hoof trimming pictures" you see, I make it look like that.
I just aquired four new goats and, if you read my journal you know they wear fancy pants and come with registration papers. They've all been shown in 4H and/or ADGA shows.
So, why is it that their hooves were so overgrown it was causing them to limp, favor one leg, do what little g calls "Parade walk" (lifting up their hooves high as if to kick) etc? Don't take this as an attack against their previous owners, by the way. I know we're all different and have different views on what is "right". There was no neglect occuring at all and all girls are healthy otherwise - just had bad looking hooves, according to me.
That said, on the pretense that I'm not attacking anyone's ability or lack there of in trimming hooves, let me ask you - do you think it's me? I am that much of a perfectionist? Am I over-reacting when it comes to their feet?
FWIW my husband thinks so.