I came up on this site while I was trying to find out what to feed my 6 month old wether who has UC. He bladder burst and he now has a stoma. He drinks 3, 20 ounce bottles of milk a day. Gets 10-20 ounces of water and also gets hay. Can I gave him beet pulp?
I have a 5 month old goat with UC. I brought him to the vets today and she catheterized his penis and did retrograde flushing. He
is still not urinating though. What else can I do? I do not want to lose him.
I have a friend and her vet who suggested it. My concern about amputating them was that he would not have a center of balance.
In regards to the social needs, I have several other special goats who tend to live either in the house a good portion of the time or right outside in a small goat...
Coco is able to scoot all over and that includes outside. I do worry about his knees so I do tend to carry him. He is able to due much with his back legs. This evening he wanted on the couch and was begging me to go on. I had to do something in the kitchen first and when I returned h was laying...
I am owned by about 15 goats. Many of them special needs. I have Itty who has one front leg longer then the other. Dawn Michelle my first bottle baby, Coco who has deformed legs. David my Boer buck, Bug and Bell who are my latest bottle babies and many more.
Lisa
He is 4.5 months old. Coco can scoot around very well. When he has to go outside then I carry him. The biggest problem is that the knees get scraped up. Thanks.
He is able to crawl around, he jumps from the chair to the couch with no problems. He even attacks the cats <g>. He is in no pain. He can live in the house forever. I bring him his hay and grain. I am willing to get him a wheelchair. He is a very a sweet guy.
I got Coco off of Craig's list in March. His legs are contracted to his body. Cornell University has said that if it is not the bones and just the tendons then they might be able to cut the tendons. If it is the bone then they can do nothing. It is a 2 day drive and would cost at least 2000.00...