20kidsonhill
True BYH Addict
Wanted to share our recent experience and I am happy to report successful experience saving a very very anemic goat.
Background information: 5 year old doe that is nursing 5 week old twin bucklings, on pasture, but also given supplement goat grain(1 1/2 lbs) and minerals free choice. Kids also have access to a creep feed with free-choice goat grain. kids born end of June.
Doe had not been wormed all summer. However she had been wormed in the spring about 4 months earlier. She would have been wormed with cydectin, since she was pregnant.
On Friday it was noticed that she was still eating, but looking a little more distant from the herd. She was checked for anemia and she was fairly white, probably a 2 on the famancha scale. She was given
Synanthic wormer
an iron shot
and a B complex shot
And she was allowed to stay with the herd.
She continued to join the herd during grain feedings, but remained distant.
We gave her a couple more B-complex shots over the next 36 hours and continued to monitor her.
At that time we determined the anemia was getting worse and we penned her away from her kids. Kids have access to a 17% protein creepfeed and appear to be doing well on it.
Over the next 12 hours, the doe became worse, off water and all feed,
We then did the following once we penned her:
Gave her penn G shots
rewormed with cydectin, not sure if she was bleeding out or still wormy.
gave another shot of pig iron and conintued with B-complex shots
started drenching with a drench called Magic drench. a mixture of corn oil, corn syrup, and mollasses, 1 part each. I would add a couple vitmanin E gel caps cut open to this. I would give her 4 or 5 ounce plus a cople ounces of water every 4 hours.
also gave her red cell once a day, 15 cc's.
Then we did a couple eggs mixed with warm water and baking soda.
Then we got a pack of Save a Calf Electrolytes and mixed that and drenched her with all of that over a few hour period. This was noted to really help her and it was decided we needed a way to get her more hydrated. She did get up about an hour after using this product and ate a few mouth fulls of hay.(However the next day she was worse)
We purchased a bottle of 50% dextrose solution and followed the instructions and administered 75 cc sub-Q a a couple times in a 24 hour period.
This brings us from Friday when we first noticed her in bad shape to Monday afternoon.
At this time we were sure we were going to loose her, still off feed, no longer getting up unless pulled up from the ground.
Had a vet bring us an IV kit and pouches of Sodium chloride fluid and with his advice we adminstered 2,000 cc's(two pounches) under the skin in the next 8 hours. we put 200 to 300 cc's per location administering the entire 1,000 cc pouch with in first 20 min. Checked on her an hour later and she was laying in a different location than we had left her and it was noted that she had gotten up, walked around and pooped in a couple different locations. This was the first sign of poop since we had penned her up on Saturday.
Brings us to today, Wednesday. We have administered 2 pounches a day since Monday afternoon. Plus I have drenched her twice a day with the Magic mixer and additional water and a couple teaspoons baking soda per day.
She know has to be caught to treat and takes two people to treat her. She ate half a slab of hay last night, was out grazing on a small side pasture and munched on a couple mouth fulls of grain as well as drinking water again on her own.
Okay I know this was long long long, but wanted to share this with you all
Background information: 5 year old doe that is nursing 5 week old twin bucklings, on pasture, but also given supplement goat grain(1 1/2 lbs) and minerals free choice. Kids also have access to a creep feed with free-choice goat grain. kids born end of June.
Doe had not been wormed all summer. However she had been wormed in the spring about 4 months earlier. She would have been wormed with cydectin, since she was pregnant.
On Friday it was noticed that she was still eating, but looking a little more distant from the herd. She was checked for anemia and she was fairly white, probably a 2 on the famancha scale. She was given
Synanthic wormer
an iron shot
and a B complex shot
And she was allowed to stay with the herd.
She continued to join the herd during grain feedings, but remained distant.
We gave her a couple more B-complex shots over the next 36 hours and continued to monitor her.
At that time we determined the anemia was getting worse and we penned her away from her kids. Kids have access to a 17% protein creepfeed and appear to be doing well on it.
Over the next 12 hours, the doe became worse, off water and all feed,
We then did the following once we penned her:
Gave her penn G shots
rewormed with cydectin, not sure if she was bleeding out or still wormy.
gave another shot of pig iron and conintued with B-complex shots
started drenching with a drench called Magic drench. a mixture of corn oil, corn syrup, and mollasses, 1 part each. I would add a couple vitmanin E gel caps cut open to this. I would give her 4 or 5 ounce plus a cople ounces of water every 4 hours.
also gave her red cell once a day, 15 cc's.
Then we did a couple eggs mixed with warm water and baking soda.
Then we got a pack of Save a Calf Electrolytes and mixed that and drenched her with all of that over a few hour period. This was noted to really help her and it was decided we needed a way to get her more hydrated. She did get up about an hour after using this product and ate a few mouth fulls of hay.(However the next day she was worse)
We purchased a bottle of 50% dextrose solution and followed the instructions and administered 75 cc sub-Q a a couple times in a 24 hour period.
This brings us from Friday when we first noticed her in bad shape to Monday afternoon.
At this time we were sure we were going to loose her, still off feed, no longer getting up unless pulled up from the ground.
Had a vet bring us an IV kit and pouches of Sodium chloride fluid and with his advice we adminstered 2,000 cc's(two pounches) under the skin in the next 8 hours. we put 200 to 300 cc's per location administering the entire 1,000 cc pouch with in first 20 min. Checked on her an hour later and she was laying in a different location than we had left her and it was noted that she had gotten up, walked around and pooped in a couple different locations. This was the first sign of poop since we had penned her up on Saturday.
Brings us to today, Wednesday. We have administered 2 pounches a day since Monday afternoon. Plus I have drenched her twice a day with the Magic mixer and additional water and a couple teaspoons baking soda per day.
She know has to be caught to treat and takes two people to treat her. She ate half a slab of hay last night, was out grazing on a small side pasture and munched on a couple mouth fulls of grain as well as drinking water again on her own.
Okay I know this was long long long, but wanted to share this with you all