Cooper the pet goat has been getting stuck every day. Stuck everyday with a shot of antibiotics. Over a week ago, we called in the vet for a farm visit because Cooper (a Nubian goat) just wasn't doing well at all (while Chongo the Toggenberg was running around and showing off). Anyway, Cooper stopped eating and dropped a lot of weight, resulting in all sorts of bones sticking out of his skin. So he (and Chongo) got de-wormed and I was given six shots of antibiotics to give Coop, one a day. Sub dermal. Meaning that each morning Elisa holds Cooper's collar while I pinch his skin and *poke* him with the needle and press down on the plunger. The antibiotic must have a molasses base because it's pretty slow, meanwhile you have an antsy-goat none too happy to have a needle under his skin.
He's still skinny, but he has started eating some again (grain and orchard grass hay) and his nose isn't produce the vile gunk it had been. I hope he pulls through. This past year has just been too much to go through wrt animals on the farm.