Roll farms
Spot Master
I took in 2 boerX kids 5 wks ago, the dam didn't have milk and the owner couldn't bottle feed b/c of stuff going on (2 jobs, in the process of moving, had no where to keep them and supplies packed up / in storage). The 'deal' we made was I got to keep the doeling and he gets the buckling back at 2 mos.
The buckling had a wierd issue for a few days but has been fine ever since...the doeling was always a little hellion, and has been fine all along.
2 days ago I gave them their CDT booster. She wiggled a LOT and I had to jab her a couple times.
Yesterday, she took her am and lunch bottles fine, eagerly as usual. I noticed she limped a bit but she acted fine otherwise. I chalked the limp up to the extra jabs from the shot. They were both on day 6 of DiMethox cocci prevention.
DH mentioned last night that she refused her PM bottle. That's not unheard of from a just-boosted kid, so I didn't run right down and check on her.
This morning I found her in full rigor.
Now I feel awful.
I've never heard of a goat dying from a shot 2 days later, and she had no reaction to the 1st dose.
I do let them out to wander in the yard while I do chores so they get some exercise (they're still too little to go in w/ the 6 mo. old kids).
I can't find anything that could have poisoned her but...who knows what she found somewhere.
Her brother is fine...but doing that pitiful crying thing looking for her.
Which breaks my heart.
I haven't lost a kid in years. I would have a post done if I thought it was something bacterial / contagious. Hopefully a fluke. I hate flukes.
The buckling had a wierd issue for a few days but has been fine ever since...the doeling was always a little hellion, and has been fine all along.
2 days ago I gave them their CDT booster. She wiggled a LOT and I had to jab her a couple times.
Yesterday, she took her am and lunch bottles fine, eagerly as usual. I noticed she limped a bit but she acted fine otherwise. I chalked the limp up to the extra jabs from the shot. They were both on day 6 of DiMethox cocci prevention.
DH mentioned last night that she refused her PM bottle. That's not unheard of from a just-boosted kid, so I didn't run right down and check on her.
This morning I found her in full rigor.
Now I feel awful.
I've never heard of a goat dying from a shot 2 days later, and she had no reaction to the 1st dose.
I do let them out to wander in the yard while I do chores so they get some exercise (they're still too little to go in w/ the 6 mo. old kids).
I can't find anything that could have poisoned her but...who knows what she found somewhere.
Her brother is fine...but doing that pitiful crying thing looking for her.
Which breaks my heart.
I haven't lost a kid in years. I would have a post done if I thought it was something bacterial / contagious. Hopefully a fluke. I hate flukes.
