Lump on jaw??

[Nanno]

Hopefully it's just a bump. I'm glad it's going down. If you have a closed herd and have never had CL, then I doubt that's what it is. Cuzco got an abcess on his jaw last fall and the vet said "It's probably CL!" But I knew that Cuzco had not been around any other goats except the ones I'd bought the year before who were from clean herds and had been tested. At first I thought it might be a tooth abcess but it wasn't. It think he just got banged by one of the other goats. I got my goats all tested for CAE and CL last year and plan to do that every year for peace of mind and marketing. I'll also start testing for Johne's disease for the same reasons once more of my goats are old enough. These tests are relatively cheap and I recommend doing one if you never have. If you know your herd is clean and you know you haven't introduced any diseased ones, then you have a lot less to worry about when these bumps pop up.