Ketosis-- NOT ketosis *UPDATE* Not a happy ending ...

[michickenwrangler]

Turns out Cleo was magnesium deficient. Vet gave her a magnesium injection and she is better, still twitchy and trembling, but she's at least sleeping now.

Herd will now be getting epsom salts in their feed

 

[DonnaBelle]

Thanks for the update.

Magnesium, hummmmm. Wondering why she would have been magnesium deficient??

DonnaBelle

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

i was wondering the same thing, donnabelle... is this a regional thing? or something to do with feed?

 

[michickenwrangler]

Vet said that the Great Lakes area is deficient in magnesium. We are also infamous for selenium deficiency as well. He said even a trace mineral block doesn't have enough proportion of Mg for this state. This particular doe has gone through a few stockyards, so who knows what kind of care and feed she received before.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

gotcha... i was wondering b/c we are selenium deficient here too.

 

[DonnaBelle]

Well, come to find out we are not selenium deficient here in Oklahoma. It's something to do with East of the Mississippi.

Finally found something we got here in Red Dirt country.

DonnaBelle.

 

[DonnaBelle]

Along these same lines... I wonder if there is such a thing as goat feed that is made for specific areas in the US??

DonnaBelle

 

[michickenwrangler]

Well, come to find out we are not selenium deficient here in Oklahoma. It's something to do with East of the Mississippi.

Finally found something we got here in Red Dirt country.

DonnaBelle.

We had glaciers scrape everything here except for limestone bedrock and iron.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Along these same lines... I wonder if there is such a thing as goat feed that is made for specific areas in the US??

DonnaBelle

The vet said that he had this hunch based on an article he read written by a Michigan State Vet who formulated different feeds for small livestock. The magnesium level for goats was 4x that of other livestock.

 

[ksalvagno]

I haven't seen any goat feed that is specific to a region but they do make alpaca feed specific to regions. My alpaca feed has 4.5 PPM selenium in it. My goat feed only has .6 PPM selenium. Can't find any goat feed that has higher selenium. Also can't find a mineral that would be specific to my area.