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On Saturday our one Boer doe showed up with two bare spots. The hair is gone and in the center is a red spot. The spots are about dime size. We seperated her except for a buddy goat , deloused her, and are putting Sullivan's Fungal Treatment on them. THEY ARE NOT RINGWORM. One is on her left rump and the other is on her right flank. They're not spreading and no others are appearing. Daily we look at all the other goats she had contact with a no one else is showing up with them. Has anyone seen something like this and knows what it is and how to treat it? She's entered in a show on Saturday so we would like to have her pass vet check for the show.
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| Are you familiar with Club Lamb Fungus? I imagine it could affect goats as well. Has she been to a show recently? You might want to look up CLF on the web and find pictures.
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Thank you for the idea I'll look it up and see. She was at county fair about a month ago.
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| I assume you have plenty of books about raising meat goats, especially Boers? We are new in the Boer goat industry, there is much to learn and I bought books. Learning lots, there's more involved in raising Boer's than I imagined but we're giving it a try on our farm. Good luck! Colleen in Kansas
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| It is not club lamb fungus. The red center is gone and hair is coming back. So we're going to take her to the show and if she dosen't pass it'll be o.k. Dragonfly4 congrats on going with Boers. We got our first through a catch it goat project and it's become 15 does and 2 bucks. But we might take the numbers down. Two does I've been saying I'll sell them and then change my mind, but now looking at them alot they're going. We read the Goat Rancher magazine we didn't read any books before we started. Good for you on trying it any way. Boers have the best personalities and are wonderful over all.
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I have seen that before, but in my case (sheep) it was a flea that they were allergic too.
A far more remote chance is that it is the start of an abscess. I have had these on many sheep, and when you shear them you find them. They are basically a big acne that you can cut open and squeeze out then treat with Triodine. No big deal, but not for the squeamish.
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Thank you Drawbar. We had a feeling it might be fleas. I guess we'll got and treate it for them. At least the show's over and she passed vet check
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How do you know it's not ringworm? I'm just curious because that's almost exactly what it sounds like, and it's pretty common coming back from shows.
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We see ringworm everyday with the cattle at the dairy, and we've had about every diffrent strain you can get and this just dosen't look like any. And all the spots being on the back half of her body dosen't point to it. Ringworm pretty much stays on the front half of the body. Also the spots aren't alot of connected ones, it's one here then other side of her body another. They're healing so when they're all healed and no more appear she can go back with the herd.
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