Broken up Goat

Well, we hadn't been to the Friday night auction in a couple of months so we ventured there Friday night and took some chickens. I told my friend, Janice, that I was going and we joked about buying goats. And I told her I'd name one after her if I bought any.

Prices were down and things sold cheap.. which means we didn't get much for the chickens.

One pen of goats caught our eye. They were young nubians, VERY VERY friendly. In fact, they were begging us to take them.

It worked, and we made plans to bid on them. Unfortunately, they were begging EVERYONE. We won the bid, however, but at $60 bucks each, we only took two. The other two went to a family who wanted them as pets too so I was happy for that.

In the midst of all these meat goats was one little white goat with a broken hind leg. It apparently happened the day before in the livestock trailer. It was in terrible pain and could barely hobble.

And no one would bid on it. The auctioneer finally said.. Five bucks?

And no one bid.

So I raised my hand. And we became the owners of a broken up little goat.

I named it PopTart after a MMORPG handle that Janice used back in the day. LOL

It was really hot today.. 92 but it felt like 101. With a humidity of 52%. I got the bright idea of taking Tocada around the neighborhood. So I harnessed him up and drove him down the road. He did very well until we got to the curve (about a half mile). Then he spooked at a golf cart (he's seen them a thousand times) and wanted to turn around. So we went in circles, then he started bucking and hopping and I felt like I was training a Lippizan doing Flying Caprioles. :P

I ended up leading him around the rough spot until he calmed down and then we went back to driving the rest of the way home. He did fine then. He just needs some more work on not surging ahead. He wants to amble on down the road and I can't really keep up with that. His walk is really nice and fast. His coat is slicked off and shiney. He looks good. I'll put some new pics up.

We treated the new goats with some Tetracycline and gave them some medicated feed. We also had to treat little Moose today. He was banded a few weeks ago (his testicles) and he has a little infection going :(

What a rotten place to hurt!

Edit - Pic taken in July. My sister with all four goats following her. (Moose, Gabby, Speckle, and Poppy with her broken leg)