Help! Lost 2 goats and one is sick...

[oppida]

Thank you. I'm going to have the vet come out tomorrow and see if she is really dehydrated and maybe give her an IV. And have her do a fecal test.

I keep going out there and giving her a bowl of water, she drinks it. I think the biggest challenge is that she cannot see. She can't find her water or food, so I just keep going out there and bringing it to her. She just so sad

I've wormed her, given her anti-biotics, have pink eye medicine on her.

Sorry for all the questions- should I keep her penned up? Away from the other goats? At this point, they've all been exposed, but wonder if I should gate her in her shelter.

Thank you SO much for your help.

 

[babsbag]

If you think it might be pink eye here is a link to a treatment you can use in case you need to treat the other goats, and I would keep her away from them. I understand the getting expensive part, and if you use the spray in the article it won't be cheap either, but hopefully your vet will give you the amount you need and not have to sell you the entire bottle of those meds.

http://www.barnonemeatgoats.com/pinkeye.html

Here is another article that has ideas that might be a little more affordable. I especially like the idea of treating your goats that have no symptoms as a preventative.

http://www.goodgoats.net/pinkeye.html

You should try to keep her out of the sun too.
Is there drainage from her eyes, if so you need to keep it clean so the flies don't spread the disease to your other goats.
Are her eye pink or red, hence the name pink eye.?

Pinkeye is is either caused bu myclplasma which you treat with Tylan 200 or Chalmydia, which you treat with Penn. Unfortunatley the only way to know the difference is to have it cultured and the culture for myco takes 10-12 days to grow.

Antibiotics in her eyes is good, the cloudiness will go away eventually if it is pinkeye.

Hope she comes around for you. Not sure about the scours, good thing to have a fecal done, especially if you are on irrigated pasture.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Thank you. I'm going to have the vet come out tomorrow and see if she is really dehydrated and maybe give her an IV. And have her do a fecal test.

I keep going out there and giving her a bowl of water, she drinks it. I think the biggest challenge is that she cannot see. She can't find her water or food, so I just keep going out there and bringing it to her. She just so sad

I've wormed her, given her anti-biotics, have pink eye medicine on her.

Sorry for all the questions- should I keep her penned up? Away from the other goats? At this point, they've all been exposed, but wonder if I should gate her in her shelter.

Thank you SO much for your help.

yes, for sure keep her penned up. She is drinking, that is great. With the scours/runny poop she may need some electrolytes to help her feel more energetic.