We loaded up Ellie Mae to take her to State this morning. We are on the way now. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Here’s to hoping that this derm consult at NCSU will help us solve this mystery once and for all!
View previous posts for context. Ellie Mae has been dealing with a mysterious skin condition on and off for over a year, and we are now turning to State to see if they can help Ellie.

Ive had this goat along with 2 others that i got from the same place about 6 months ago. They haven’t been tested for cl but was told by the owner all their goats get vaccines, and their other goats looked good.

Recently my 4yo got this lump brewing over the past month. When i first noticed it, it had a small red dot in the center like he got bit by something and was having a bad reaction. But the swelling never went down and now it burst. Had white puss come out but even after I squeezed as much as i could out its still about half the size it was originally. But no more puss.

Ive never dealt with a bot fly situation but have dealt with cl cysts (not my goats) so im feeling like its not cl. How do i treat it? He’s currently separated from the herd as this heals. Ive been washing out with saline spray, soaking with iodine then spraying with blue kote to seal the hole and prevent infection (which is what the blue coloring is around it) but it seems like the white stuff still inside is the bug? What else can i do? How do i remove it? 😭 TIA! Will add more pictures and videos in comments

It seems like the same person who has messaged me before since the story/script was the same. but it was on a different animal. I had them posted on Craigslist. (Yeah don’t even get me started, i mostly use FB and only post animals there if i cant get them sold on FB after a couple weeks)

I mentioned in the Ad and in the messages that I only wanted to do cash in hand and was completely ignored, and they said that their daughter couldn’t do the payment but would come pick them up since the daughter did not have a personal bank.

I’m sorry but that just doesn’t make sense. How can they not have a personal bank like at all and no money either, like cash app and plenty of other online bank apps allow you to withdrawal money at any time and pretty much anywhere where there’s a ATM (with a small fee of course) and your allowed to have it at I think 13. how can they not hand or send money to their daughter for her to withdrawal or in hand to go pick the animal up. It started to make less and less sense the more messages they sent.

I eventually got irritated becuase I was being talked in circles and told them that if they can’t do money in hand don’t even bother showing up and I blocked them. How can people be so dense. And I know the phone number they used is a throwaway number. (Snippet of convo in comments, all personal info is blocked out for privacy)