06/16/2026
Ok, so I’ve always heard bad things come in threes, and I’m starting to think it might be true. I’m just hoping that this one has a better ending…
This is Felix, one of our spring kids. He’s one of three adorable bucklings that I’ve been meaning to post for sale, but I was waiting for some paperwork to come through from ADGA. Anyway, of course Felix is my favorite. He’s the sweetest guy, balanced conformation, blue eyes, and beautiful coloring- possible moonspots (sister is covered in them).
So last night when we went out to the buck pen to lock up, Felix didn’t come to the gate with his cousins. We move the littles back up by the house at night just to keep them safe from coyotes since we don’t want to lock them up with the big boys quite yet. We got lanterns as it was almost dark and started searching the pen. Just as we were about to give up, we heard a faint goat sound. Turns out, Felix must have tried to jump the wire fence by climbing onto a pallet, didn’t quite clear it, and got a hind foot hung in the very top wire. He was hanging by the foot over the very back fence,wedged in the thick brush/trees that he was probably trying to eat. I have no idea how long he was there.
By this time, it was pitch black and the kids and I were horrified. I found some wire snips and cut him out of the fence because we couldn’t get his foot unstuck, and then I had to claw my way through the solid mass of brush (and most likely copperheads) to get to him and hand him over to my kids. Right after I climbed back in the pen, the coyotes started screaming RIGHT on the other side of the fence. I bet they were angry that I stole their snack away.
We took Felix back up to the house, gave him a shot of Banamine, and looked at the foot. There was some bleeding and swelling, but not terrible. My bigger concern was shock, broken bones or torn muscles etc., and dehydration/rumen shutdown since he could have been like that for quite awhile. He made it through the night and a took him in to the vet this morning. Amazingly, the wire was just wrapped and embedded but wasn’t piercing anything and didn’t go all the way to the bone. The foot was a little cold, so we’re hoping the loss of blood flow didn’t do permanent damage. Right now he’s resting in a pen in the shade on antibiotics and pain meds, but he’s eating and drinking and doing goat things.
Say a little prayer for Felix if you are so inclined, and I’ll let y’all know how it turns out.
