He doesn't appear to have drank anything yet but he did manage to turn himself around, I've turned him back around so he's facing his water but he immediately starter moving back around again. I'll put him back in meatloaf form and see if I can find something to help prop him up... Maybe an old t-shirt I don't care about will work? I'll try that and see how it does. I believe the lump is swelling too.. From how I would envision his fall from the cage the lump is exactly where I would guess he would've got himself caught at. I figure it caught the spine and he wriggled himself loose until he hit the floor. I'd say there might be some bruising on his underside as well. I'll take the feeder off of my does cage tomorrow and take a pic of it because it's the same set-up as his cage was but it's on the side of the cage so the goats can't get to it. For now I will watch him and I'll keep everyone updated on this post. I'll post my next update tomorrow morning for anyone who's interested. Oh one more question.. Do you think it would be safe to breed him eventually? I mean I really want to because he is such a sweetheart and I love him so much and I know he'd make beautiful babies, but I don't want to risk hurting him and if there's any chance it could hurt him I won't do it.
-- July 17th, 2016, 10:10 am --
WOW! What a turn-around! His bump is under half the size and he is reacting to the pinch test. He wasn't yesterday but I think it's because his feet were swollen yesterday. He didn't do any of the what I would say normal signs of pain but when I pinched his foot he gave me this look like you might want to stop and then he slowly pulled his foot up in a "I'll kill you manner" so I took that as a good sign
when I squeezed his other foot he kinda started breathing harder a bit and started to come at me with intent of biting so I didn't squeeze as hard the second time. *Mine you the first time I slowly put more pressure until he started saying ow* He pulled his foot up the second time. He's moving himself around the cage but isn't showing much interest in his pellets. But that's Ok
Because in his cage he has an apple tree branch with leaves and a willow twig, he has some dandelion and plantain, He also has some banana but I need to give him more. He hasn't drank hardly any water but I figure if he's eating all these greens that's why plus his poop looks wet. It's like normal poop but it's wet on the outside, not mushy like diarrhea
-- July 17th, 2016, 7:20 pm --
Sunday, July 17 at about 8:10pm...
~So I went down to check on him and found he was covered in poo and pee *Yesterday I was checking him hourly and there was never anything so today I checked him this morning and once about midday and there was little to no poop or pee. But this past time I went there was quite a bit.* So I went and got some baby wipes and I massaged all the poop out of his fur and I cleaned him up the best I could as well as removing the soiled bedding and putting in new bedding.
~ I've done the pinch test and it appears to me it hurts him to move his back legs. But when I pinch his feet he starts eating but when he bites he bites hard and chews hard. Similar to what someone in pain would probably do. Now he won't move much when I'm around other than trying to get away from me because I'm the no fun person who is having to carefully, gently move him around to clean him and his cage. But he loves my boyfriend, he calls himself dad, the bond between them is incredible. But when his dad came over to see him he pricked his ears up and pushed/pulled himself forward. He used his back legs a bit during this to push himself.
~ Since he had sticky poo I've took away his pellets and am going to be feeding him solely willow branches and plantain. I've been trying to look for Shepard's Purse even though I haven't got to look yet because of the rain. He hasn't drank much if any but he's eating. His water bottle is low hung but I'm debating giving him a water bowl because I wonder if he knows his bottle is there.. It's definitely low enough for him to reach, I made sure of that.