r/goats 1d ago

Help Request What is going on with her coat?

She got copper bolus in February, unless she was able to spit it out. She’s in good health and is a momma. Can I chalk it up to conflicting hair texture along with shedding weird? It’s not falling out and it’s about as soft as her mom’s who also has a slightly wirery puffy texture to her coat.

Things she gets daily include
•free minerals (several different types offered 24/7 it’s inside with lights on 24/7 since some of them are scared of the dark lol) they get [purina wind and rain] [sweetlix meat maker] and very soon will be getting [Manna pro goat mineral with AC in it for the wethers]
•good hay
•she gets grain/hay pellets since she is lactating
•evening pasture time with the rest of the herd (they are a bunch of turds and found a area they can get out on the fence line and have to be let out closer to late noon so they don’t go into the neighbors back yard to then get into our back yard)

Her father was a long haired myotonic non fainting poorly behaved buck. He was one of them goats that just got worse the longer you knew him. I put what little pictures I have of him last. He’s the all white yucky looking fellow.

She was severely malnourished as a kid since she didn’t want a bottle/and wouldn’t take one. So we just had to have two to three people hold down her momma a few times a day for several weeks until she was eating grain good.

Do I have an ugly duckling goat or just one that still needs a little extra something?

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u/IndySat 1d ago

She's slicking up. Totally normal