madcow
Loving the herd life
I have a 1-1/2-year-old LaMancha goat in milk who started with profuse diarrhea Sunday morning. On Sunday she was eating and acting normally with no other symptoms. I gave her a dose of ProBios for her weight thinking she might have something going on in her rumen. I put some baking soda in their water and by last night she was having more formed stools, but still not true nanny berries. This morning when I went out to feed them she wouldn't eat and seemed lethargic and her stools were back to liquid. It was 102 here on Saturday and 100 Sunday and really humid. In other words, really miserable. I was worried she might be dehydrated so I gave her some electrolytes and a dose of Pepto-Bismol (which she actually liked!). She seems a little better now. She doesn't have an elevated temperature. In fact, it was 101.6, which is low, but not significantly. I'm thinking she either gorged herself on feed on Saturday, because she was fed about 5 hours later than usual for the evening feeding or she ate something that didn't agree with her that she normally wouldn't eat because she was hungry enough to eat something out of the usual. I made sure they had hay during the entire time they didn't have feed. Really, the diarrhea is the only symptom she has at this point and it looks like green splats (hay is alfalfa). No other unusual characteristics to it that I can tell. The lethargy is probably a result of some dehydration, which I'm treating. So, what would you do with this situation?
