I’ve been trying to have fewer goats in the milk room because it’s a free-for-all when I try to go through the door. I might have accidentally shut Pretzel’s head in the door once.

Pretzel
That means I haven’t been feeding all the old ladies their little bit of extra sweet feed.

Dolly
The temperatures has still been mostly well below average (except for a couple of extra warm days), which means the pasture hasn’t grown like it should for this time of year. That has been hard on the old girls.

Joani
Haley ended up with bottle jaw. I caught it early. They just had copper two weeks earlier, but I did check and she only had 2 grams.

Haley
So I gave her another 2 grams and shut her in the Love Shack for a couple of days.

She was better, so I moved her up with Flower and Coral.

Haley, Coral, and Flower
I wish the goats had a pop-up timer (like the Thanksgiving turkey) to let me know when they need more copper. It would be so much easier than guessing.
Tags: copper deficiency, Coral, Dolly, Flower, goats, Haley, health, Joani, old goats, pretzel