A Goat Happening

This could turn out to be a long story....I will try to keep it as short as possible
Last Thursday we did some goat separating. As I talked about in a previous post, we have two billy goats. For background on this click here to read the blog entry about that. I had been keeping the billies separate from the females until I was ready for them to breed. So, Thursday we decided it was time to put the females with their respective males. I only had two females (sisters) with one of the males. These two did not like being separated from the rest of the goats they were used to being around. So, as all goats do when put in this situation, they tried to find a way out so they could join the others. Well, these goats found that way out. We were at work when all this went down but I pieced together what happened. We did not figure it out until later but what they did was get on a tall stump that was near the yard fence and jumped over the fence. I had always thought that a goat might jump over at that spot but none ever had so I stopped worrying about it. So, after jumping over they were in the yard and needed to find a way over the other fence that would get them back into the section with their buddies. They walked all around trying to find a place to get over and this took them to the far side of the property. This is where they found another stump. This was a stump from a tree that I had cut while putting up the perimeter fence 3 years ago. This stump was not as close to the fence as the other stump but I guess the goats figured they could still make this jump. The first one made the jump because when we got home we found her on the side of the property that she was not supposed to be in with the other goats. We did not see her sister anywhere who had been with her so we went looking for her. She was not on the side she was supposed to be on so we knew she had gotten out but just may have not made it in to the other side. We finally found her at this spot where they decided to jump back in, this is how we figured all this out. While her sister had made the jump back in, she did not. Evidently she almost made it but her back leg got caught on the top strand of barbwire and got tangled in her flight over the fence. When we found her she was dangling upside down hanging by her back leg for who knows how long. We thought she was dead because she was not moving. But she was still barely alive. She had struggled some because she had gotten her head and other legs tangled in the fence and was pretty contorted. It took us a few minutes but we got her untangled. She tried walk but could not and would just fall down every time she tried. Both legs on one side were injured. We gave her water and food and just let her lay down for a while. The next day her front leg was stronger and she could walk around on it but she was still dragging her back leg that she had been dangling from. I did not see or feel any breaks or dislocations so we just cleaned up her wounds, put a bandage on the leg where it got cut up pretty bad by the barbwire, and gave her some antibiotics. I am not sure if the leg is going to fully recover or not but it is showing improvement after two days. This was one of the craziest things I had seen happen with a goat. To make things worse it is my new goat that I really like because she has cool markings. Here is a pic of her from today, you can see the bandage on her leg where the barbwire was wrapped around.