3 Month old goat has little control over her muscles...

[AnaciduPlessis]

I have a 3 month old doe that has been a bit floppy at birth but managed to get up and drink ok. Until recently she's been a bit floppy still but drinks, walks around and eats normally. Her mother got Coccidiosis a few weeks earlier and I managed to cure her, but the lamb has been getting worse and worse suddenly. She walks with a bent back and her back legs doesn't seem to be working right - they're rigid and stiff and her hips keeps falling from one side to the other. It almost looks like seizures now and then. She can't jump or run at all.

Any idea what is causing this? She stayed with her mother when I treated for the coccidiosis - a solution I put in the drinking water, so I doubt that it's coccidiosis.

Thanks!
Anaci

 

[Hillsvale]

http://www.goatworld.com/articles/fks/fksrw.shtml

http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles/WMD.html

You say lamb but assume its a goat... try these.

Good luck and best wishes with your sick baby.

 

[ksalvagno]

I'm going to suggest white muscle disease. Do you have a goat vet in your area? It sounds like she really needs a vet's attention.

 

[Hillsvale]

I'm going to suggest white muscle disease. Do you have a goat vet in your area? It sounds like she really needs a vet's attention.

Yes the second like gives her information to try and determine if this is what her baby has... I hope she can find a vet but if not perhaps she can research and help out her baby goatie herself.