BULL-HEADED AND BLOODIED

Yes, i have bull headed goats.  Not very often does it happen, they are usually docile creatures but i think they have cabin fever like i do.  So last night at feeding time i go out to the goat barn, get all the horses fed, throw them goats some hay and out comes Ezzy to get her grain and be milked.  She hops up on the milking stand and as i go to grab the chain to lock her in i notice red!  Bloody red!  Yikes! "What the heck did you do now?"  I ask her, no response. Why can't someone ever answer me when I ask a question???

This reminds me of the time a few years ago when at morning chores i found a large 4" x 4" piece of her skin dangling from the side of her body!  She looked like a halloween decoration! We never did figure out what happened there - but we think it might have involved someone else's horn.

yes, here are the nasty looking pictures:

Now really, would a family squabble be that bad as to head butt a family member so hard that you put a hole in your head?
I think to myself, "Well this should be easy to figure out who the opposition was - look for blood on their noggin."  So i am also thinking, "Gosh another wounded soldier out there."
I look around at all the other goats, only to find one with a little red on the head - Demeter - her granddaughter!

Gee, what kind of grandmother head butts her granddaughter?  What was the quarrel about i wonder? She wouldn't tell me, la sigh.
















It looks like Ezzy got the rough end of the blows, barely any blood on this girl and no open wounds.


But now i have to clean up Ezzy, so i go get some hot water out of the granary and wash out the wound.  Problem is Ezzy hates her head touched.  See- she has this scur. Scurs grow when a goat is disbudded (burning the horn bud)  and it is not done properly. Occasionally a new growth will emerge called a scur - a misshapen horn - which should be removed and to remove it you just take some pliers and pull or sometimes the goats just shake their head and off it comes.  But Ezzy thinks this hurts tremendously so she refuses to let me get near her to pull it off anymore.  So now she is head shy.

So after fighting and bloody water splashing everywhere, i get her cleaned up and spray the wound with - what else- Wound Kote.

Now she gets to walk around with a purple dome.

Life on the farm!