Scabby lumps on one side - soremouth

[KinderKorner]

I am so sorry this is happening to you. Sounds like a horrible situation, and you are really doing everything you can.

Reasons like this is exactly why I only buy registered and tested goats. They also all get quarantined. There are too many icky germs out there, and it's just not worth the risk.

I've dealt with CAE and CL and neither were fun, but not nearly as bad as what you are going through. Never again.

 

[Sweetened]

Our space is not conduscive to quarantine. We have a small acreage with cats and wild birds that have access to wherever they feel like whether we want them to or not. Restricting disease flow is just nigh impossible, and the suspected carrier doe WAS effectively quarantined for 2 months prior to being released with the herd because of how she was brought here -- she was not supposed to stay initially.

I have never seen an ad out here 'from orf free herd' and now, id almost prefer if theyd been through it so at least one or two strains were out of the way. Hah!

I dont test for CAE, because i have skewed opi ions on it, and i check for CL before purchasing, but if a goat has internal lesions, one would never know.

 

[Sweetened]

Tootsie has come off feed, still has fight but is not eating.

Milked out thebside with the black dot on the teat orifice, milk is fine, black dot is removed (scab) and i got her teat infused, MUCH to her dismay. Got pussy, sour, awful smelling clumpy bloody milk out of the other side, not much, and she is hardened up at the top -- further up, at the top of her attachment, she has a ping pong sized ball with what feels like a vein attached inside the udder (cant be seen, just felt). Not looking good for her. Ill help her as long as she is standing. Got that teat infused as well.

 

[HoneyDreameMomma]

Hang in there! What an awful mess. We're pulling for you!

 

[Sweetened]

As of this morning, Tootsie has a lung infection. I had to go to work, but if she's still alive when I get home, I'll be dosing her with Oxytetracycline. The dosages I have found listed are for 200mg/1mL (I have 100mg/1mL, so I have doubled the recommended dose).
Fiasco Farm suggests 6ml per hundred pounds once daily (my box says for no less than 5 days, but is off label for goats)
Onion Creek says 2cc per 20lbs , which would work out to a little over 8cc for her.

Which would you suggest to follow?

 

[Hens and Roos]

not sure on the dosage.

sorry to hear hang in there

 

[bonbean01]

You are having such a hard time of this and I feel so badly for you! I am no vet...but first dose of any antibiotic I've had to give horses in the past or a sheep now...I double the first dose only and then go to the recommended dose after that for weight...and if it says for 5 days...I go at least 7 days. That is from my Dad's advice years ago, and he is not a vet either...but raised cattle and horses his whole life.

Thinking of you Sweetened and sending prayers.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

I'd got higher dosage, not lower but that's just me. With so many resistant strains of cooties out there, I'd thunk underdosing worse than slight overdose.

 

[Sweetened]

Tootsie had passed by the time i got home.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

I am so so sorry.