OneFineAcre Spring 2015 Kidding Thread - Seperating and weaning babies 1st cut of alfalfa

OneFineAcre · Apr 11, 2015

Ok here is. Question
What dosage of BOSE would you give ND kids who are 5,6, and 7 lbs
2 vets gave wildly different recommendations

Southern by choice · Apr 11, 2015

I know what vet I'd go with.

OneFineAcre · Apr 11, 2015

Southern by choice said:
I know what vet I'd go with.

Well Dr C said give them a ml
Dr Y said he thought that was too much for a goat that small and would worry about selenium toxicity
He would only give about a quarter of a ml
But then Dr Y did say that Dr C was an expert on goats was an academic and that was his specialty
But Dr Y has raised and bred goats for 20 years and hasn't given any of his goats selinium for years
Mrs Dr Y pretty much focuses her work with horses and Dr Y is on contract with a couple of big hog outfits and also does horses but they own probably 50 or more goats

purplequeenvt · Apr 11, 2015

Our vet has said 0.25 - 0.5 ml.

ragdollcatlady · Apr 11, 2015

Sorry about the loss of your little girl! :hugs

Our BoSe Rx is 1ml per 40lb.

For our first goat babies that had weak back legs, it was dosed at 0.2 ml for the first day and then another dose 48 hours later. ( I don't recall off the top of my head their weights.) If any kid seems to need it in a litter, I dose all the kids in that litter, including mom (if I have not given mom a dose in the month before kidding).

I also worry about the toxicity of giving too much.

Southern by choice · Apr 12, 2015

That is surprising. We only did the Selenium once here 1 month prior to breeding. The vet did not really want to give any but looked at the data for a long time and decided it was ok but only gave a LOW dose. no more than .5 to the goats... average weight was 65 lbs. some goats even less.

Have you thought of doing something like Source brand Kelp?
You can give the oatmeal kelp balls to the momma and the kids get the benefits through the milk.

OneFineAcre · Apr 12, 2015

We gave Coleus a ml this morning and gave the kids .2 ml yesterday

Disbudded the two bucklings yesterday was really concerned about stressing them but they will be 3 weeks old tomorrow
The moon spotted buckling weighed 7 lbs even from 2-10 birth weight
Little buckling weighed 5-5 from 2-0 at birth

We waited way too long to disbud Zamia's buckling Zeus
He was 3 weeks old and weighed 12 lbs big single on a high producing doe
The tip would not set cleanly on head
We made first burn as best we could and then cut the horn off
Burned two more times but still
couldnt get a clean burn
I'm afraid we will have to get
the vet to re do with a bigger tip

OneFineAcre · Apr 19, 2015

Our last kids were Daisy's twins (doe and buck) and Cocoa's triplet bucklings. With all that with the little quad dying never put updated pics.

The buckling is the one that is tri-colored white, brown and black. The doeling is the one with more white.