Ks Wallace

Thank you.
I will definitely look around on Facebook and see if something turns up.
I'm hoping it does, or at least that where ever they are. They're safe.

Thank you for the ideas.
I live in Oklahoma, and in this state they consider anything fair game.
I didn't think to check Facebook, but I have been looking at Craigslist. I might post a lost ad there just to see if anything comes from.
All of them have horns so they are kind of unique in that manner since most people here get the horns removed.
The driveway is fenced in so no one could just drive up to the house and snatch them plus my blue heeler would've pitched a fit if a car had come up because he hates them.
However, if they went a little ways south or north, anyone could've herded them away or grabbed them.
What is odd to me though is that until yesterday day its been in 30s during the day so they haven't been wandering much at all except within sight distance of the house and every time I would come out, they rush over expecting me to give them something tasty.
Then Tuesday, I see them around the house, where their hay is lazy grazing. Then two hours later I come back outside to take of trash and check their water and sheds, and I am meet with a lone confused goat. It just feels weird.
The one goat is still sticking close by and keeps looking around like she expects them to show up, but so far nothing.
Sadly with college and work, I'm not home every day so I can't spend the whole day out looking for them, but I just keep hoping.

Jim Fry wrote:My experience with livestock, including sheep, goats and even cows, is that any of them will take a walk if they are a mind to. And, sometimes it can take as little as a couple, three hours for them to go "feral". They'll head for the woods, get "scared", then don't know what to do, then just keep walking/grazing. I've had them get a mile or two in a day, farther the next. My experience is either you take a long walk searching, or call all the neighbors and especially the police and have them report any sightings. ~~The police in my town pretty much always call me no matter whose animals got out. The cops know I'm better at catching strays than any of them. It's a helpful reputation to have.~~ As far as your animals returning, my experience is not so much. Once they're "wild" they just don't come home. But, you never know, maybe they will (probably not). As far as them get'n  eat'n, most predators don't take the kill all that far. They usually go just far enough to feel safe. You should have found evidence of a kill by now. So my guess is they're just on a walkabout. --One other thing is to check with other local farmers. Sometimes strays will go join another flock just because they don't know where home is and any flock is better than none.

I would agree about them turning feral, except it seems odd at that point that only one would return or feel a reason to return rather than staying with the others.
Also in the ten years of keeping goats, back when I originally got them and was still naive about dangers. I used to have twenty goats that were allowed free run of the property, from basically 8 in the morning until five at night and they always came back. Never had any go feral or just walk off.
I can contact the police but they aren't very helpful where I live, and I don't have a lot of neighbors either. I'm going to mention something to the one across the way, but I'm not sure it'll help.

I have had these goats since they were born here( Minus the wether who I adopted at two months old) and they have stuck around or came running when I hollered 'goats' because they knew they'd get a treat. They are free range as it where during the day when I'm home and locked up when I'm not.
Tuesday I was home all day so they got free reign of the land, but with it being winter they haven't been going far because of all the hay and feed I've been giving them.
We haven't had much rain or snow recently so now way to look for any tracks since the ground is dry.

Theft was my first thought too, although it has never happened before to me. My reasoning being same as you that predators don't generally kill a herd. I have lost two goats in the past to coyotes within a couple weeks of each other but both times only one goat was killed and everyone else was fine.

I used to have two LGD, we initially got them when we got the goats as puppies and raised them together with him.
However, after we think one was poisoned and the goats weren't friendly to other dogs with their giant horns. We decided not to do that again.
I have both a Blue Heeler and a Boarder Collie.
Both are great guard dogs and will bark at any noise they don't recognize.
But if someone caught the goats on the north or south side of the property, it would be hard to hear anything.

I have wanted to get a donkey but I also am planning on moving in the next few months to some place that is 30-40 minutes away from where I live so I've been holding off until after the move so I'm not having to move another animal around last minute.

So I'm new here but I have an odd case I'm hoping to get some answers to.
I own five goats, all about ten years old. Well suddenly on Tuesday somewhere between 2 and 4:30pm four of them go missing.
And I say missing because they didn't show back up like they always do before nightfall.
The one who is left is acting confused but has no injuries and isn't act like she has been spooked by anything. Sadly I wasn't there to see where she came from or if she came back scared so I'm not sure if I should be looking for a predator or a person.

I own dogs but none that run my property anymore with goats because they are more interested in running off than guarding the property.

One of my neighbors does have four dogs who run between their property and ours. They have been raised Around horses and livestock and while they chase deer, in the three years they've been around they never have hurt or shown any interest in our goats.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be the culprit? I'm really rather devastated over this.