Meet Omer, a baby goat who joined the Freedom family yesterday!
Omer is a week and a half old, arrived from the dairy industry. The workers in the pen where he was born noticed that he was walking in circles around himself and they suspected that he was blind. His mother turned him down, apparently she sensed that something wasn’t right. When he was just born, he couldn’t walk properly and we can still notice that his left leg is a bit crooked.
A man who’s taking care of the same pen approached us and asked us to help him. He asked if it’s possible to bring Omer (who wasn’t named Omer yet) to the farm and told us that if they won’t find him a new home they will put him down.
The excitement was great when he arrived! We immediately called the veterinarian for an initial examination. After the veterinarian’s visit, Omer was diagnosed with acute pneumonia and we have been told that his blindness was probably caused by stress, high fever and the pneumonia he suffer from. We hope that his Visual impairment is temporary and that his vision will improve as he recovers.
Now Omer is recovering, receiving medical treatment and slowly getting to know his new home.
About dairy Pens
As all other species, male goats don’t get pregnant and therefore they don’t produce milk and they are sent to slaughter. Weak Females join them because of the fear they won’t get pregnant and won’t be profitable.
In most pens in Israel, the male and female baby goats are separated from their mothers immediately after birth. There are pens that separate them from each other later on.
