old goat down

[jen miller]

Her body condition is not great. Thin and very boney. We have a neighbor who is a goat farmer and she noticed last year sometime and made the comment that her neck and hips have been shrinking up. She's been healthy but over the past year she has really thinned out. She has never finished her spring shedding. Her hair is coming off in patches. Her last fecal test was done Tuesday . Vet looked over her feet and legs. Said there was no issues. Not swollen or fluid. No injuries. She's not really using any of her legs. She can move them just won't stand up. We put a bail under her last night and she did have pressure put on them. The vet said it's rare case that she's eating just fine, stool is fine but she can't get up. She said when she called today she was bothered by it that they can't figure out what and why she won't walk so she did research on it and that's how she came up w that disease. She felt like everything they have done for her and she still hasn't gotten up. But also said that doing this test to see if she does have that , there can false positives. So that confuses me bc how can you ever really tell If she has it if it can come up false positive? I will get pics of her tomorrow and send to you

 

[Latestarter]

I hate to intersperse myself here, but for the benefit of potentially many, would you consider posting the pics here to the forum? It could prove very helpful/beneficial to someone else down the road who may experience what you are going through. If indeed it does come back positive for Johne's disease, or if it doesn't, and ends up being something altogether different, the progressive pictures and descriptions you've provided could really prove valuable to someone else.

 

[jen miller]

I absolutely will!

 

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[jen miller]

There's my pretty Bella girl. We didn't get a video at this time bc ya kinda need two ppl to help lift her. To get her front and back side. And in wasn't able to go out. The kids are in bed. But those are the pics we got.

 

[TAH]

She is a pretty girl. Poor girl. It looks like to me her hair is some what thin in some spots.

 

[babsbag]

Poor baby. I have a couple of older goats too and they get to looking pretty rough sometimes. I would ask the vet to draw blood and get a mineral analysis done. You should check her copper, selenium, zinc, and manganese levels. Has she had a loose mineral to eat? Have you ever given her a copper bolus? I would be doing daily vitamin B shots. Also exercise her legs if she will let you. What state are you in? Some parts of the country are more deficient in selenium than others. CA where I live is really low so we have to supplement the goats 2x a year.

Johne's usually comes on hard and fast, not over time; hoping and praying that it isn't Johne's. Have they sent in the test for it? Have you or the vet been checking her temp?

 

[jen miller]

Yes She Does have hair there. It's just very thin. It's not just bare skin. But not like it should normally be