Lauva: They don’t need toys but they love to climb on things so a lot of people will make them a little jungle gym kind of set. If you have large rocks, they’re going to be on the top of the rock. Whenever the highest thing they can get to and climb on, that’s what they’re
0:15:00.3 going to be on, but there are people who have made little jungle gym kind of sets with a little board where they can run up to it and they’ll run and play and run off of it and that just makes them just thrilled. The rougher and the coarser that their play area can be the better it is because their hooves will grow and so you don’t have to trim their hooves if they have something coarse to kind of help keep those hooves worn down. Pygmy goat hooves do not grow like bigger goats. Some of your other goats like your Boer and your Nubian and some of those, you have a real time with their hooves and they do have to be kept trimmed quite a bit more than you do with pygmy goats.

Tammy: Do pet owners normally do that themselves or do they find somebody who can do that for them?

Lauva: I don’t ever have anybody that’s ever even asked me that question, but you can buy a pair of trimming clippers. They’re at the feed store and they’re about like $15.00. Like you would trim a horse’s hooves, you’re just trimming the outside edge down to where the actual pad is of a goat because sometimes they’ll grow and they’ll kind of curl over just like a horse will do and you’ve got…Just to keep their feet healthy you need to…If the hooves get long. And it’s not a problem. It’s easy to do to trim those.
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