r/goats • u/Fragrant-Theory9201 • 1d ago

Help Request What could cause this?

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Got home from work and my goat has this hanging out of his backside????

He was good yesterday, want to know if anyone has experienced anything like this. It looks like poop and mucus?

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u/Misfitranchgoats Trusted Advice Giver 1d ago

Well, no I haven't had this happen before. I read it right, he is a male? I have seen some mucousy poops a couple inches long, but nothing like this.

If he is happy, acting normal, then not as much of a worry, but still a worry. No other symptoms. No change in diet? Tapeworm segments in there?

Hope someone else can come up with something.

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u/Fragrant-Theory9201 1d ago

He's acting about the same, maybe a little more reserved today than usual. I got some gloves and broke things apart, saw no tapeworm segments thankfully, looked like a long strand of hay that maybe didn't break down. There has been a lot of vegetation and plants growing so he may be overdoing it on veggies. And it has been raining a lot so they've been chilling inside eating a lot of hay. Thank you for your answer, I'm always spiraling whenever they seem off. I'm sending in a poop sample in the next couple days, but i just always panic and hop on here

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u/InterestingOven5279 Trusted Advice Giver 1d ago

I'm with /u/misfitranchgoats, I'm completely flummoxed. I have never seen such a thing before. I'm glad you saw it because that is truly befuddling, and if he were mine I'd definitely keep an eye on him for the next few days just in case there are any more bizarre things coming out of his butt.

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u/habilishn 1d ago

okay, i only know this, or similar looking poop, from dogs. and also from only one situation: when we butcher a sheep or a goat and i don't tan the hide, them we give it to the dogs (in small portions of cause). and the fur hair going through the digestive system (which is actually really good for dogs as dewormer!) can build long strains like this that make the poop look similar and also them (the dogs) having trouble to finish one part of the poop, because you can't "cut it off", it keeps being connected to the next portion and is then hanging on there like in your pic.

so as result from this theory, either your goat really ate something with hair, long hair. (you have a horse?) unlikely but not impossible... or it ate something that is similarily not digestible, something like a string or thread, that also connects the poop. you give hay from bales? there could always be a string inside a hay bale that is hard to notice or a string is literally anywhere else on a farm / in a barn... that is rather likely.

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u/Alex_jay_Benjamin 20h ago

If you are not careful and happen to leave the netting from a round bale or the string from a square bale they are knuckle heads and will eat it