SICK AGAIN! My baby was vomiting, coccidia tx dosage needed...

[glenolam]

I'd still be a bit concerned about the potential for rumenitis, though...and I'd be thinking about banamine.

That's mostly because rumenitis it was something that crossed my radar for the very first time the other day, and usually when something crosses my radar for the first time, I see it a couple more times before it decides to leave me alone.

I just don't want your goatie to be the second account of rumenitis I run across.

Are you sure that's why? It's not because you're an ignorant hillbilly who sticks his goats with anything and everything given the chance? (you know I'm joking!)

 

[aggieterpkatie]

This is why I keep activated charcoal on hand and don't hesitate to give it if I suspect something toxic was ingested. Glad she's doing better!

 

[freemotion]

So, I'm back, and about to change my clothes and run out there. What are the symptoms of rumenitis? I have banamine paste for horses...will this do and what dosage if necessary? I'd have to weigh her, but I'd guess around 30 lbs.

 

[cmjust0]

The case of rumenitis I'm familiar with was discovered upon necropsy, and was the result of someone having fed a goat a bellyfull of corn. Acidosis -> rumenitis -> death.

Since this was just me thinking in terms of a 'just in case/prolly wouldn't hurt' type of deal, I'm not sure I'd go messing around with oral banamine...I have no clue whether that's even appropriate for goats, nor do I know what the dosage would be.

Not even sure what the symptoms of rumenitis would be, but it's basically an inflamed rumen.. I guess I'd just be watching for her to act like her rumen's bothering her...anorexia, maybe some continued cud-slinging, depression, teeth-grinding, etc.

Purely speculative, though.

Like I said...I was just thinking that if you had some injectable banamine, it probably wouldn't hurt.

Which is to say...never mind, 'cuz you don't have any injectable banamine..

 

[freemotion]

She is much brighter and was chewing a cud just now. My dad, who is working on the pig fencing in the back part of the pasture, said both doelings followed him out there (several hundred feet from the barn) and then Peach realized that her mom didn't come with them, so she turned and ran back. Plum followed at a good run. She is not the type to follow anyone back to the barn unless she wants to go there, too. She will stay in the pasture with any company, even one chicken or one turkey....or my dad. So I take this as a very good sign. She is alert and curious.

I still smooch her even though she smells baaaaaaad in spite of the damp towel bath she got earlier. I loooooves my leetle girrrrl.

I will try to get her to take a small bottle, maybe two ounces, and see how it goes.

 

[freemotion]

She greedily drank the 2 oz of milk, but then it was ip-ip-ip-ip-ip for a few minutes after. I gave her a little while, then gave her some more probios/b-complex (2 oz of liquid total) and she ip-ip'd for a bit again. So her tummy is still uncomfortable.

I was able to get fecal samples from both babies and will run them as soon as I have an hour in the house.

 

[freemotion]

Yeeps.

I would treat it like a frothy bloat. Get about a tbsp of baking soda in her (drench this very carefully), about 3-6 cc of oil - veggie, canola...whatever you have on hand. Do you have C&D antitoxin? I'd give up to 10 cc of this orally. Then I'd add an antacid to coat stomachs, liquid, about 3 cc.

I also hit them with B Complex injected any time there's any sort of issue. 3 cc, you can't overdose this, up to 3 times a day to avoid polio.

Withhold feed of any kind for 24 hrs.

Shoot, I somehow missed the "withhold feed" sentence. Does this include milk?

I could not get the c&d antitoxin but will try calling a few places.

I have several urgent situations all at once. I think I will explode....or implode.....if someone....anyone.....doesn't get better FAST. I only posted about a third of today's anxieties.... I sure wish I had a goat-knowledgable friend to come here and help me. Sniff.

 

[ksalvagno]

Hopefully things will calm down for you! Nothing like a few problems to put you in overdrive. :/

 

[helmstead]

Yes, that included milk...offer water, maybe a teeny bit of hay. No milk, no concentrates.

 

[mully]

Check your pasture for milk weed! This causes green puke in goats when they eat it. Most goats stay away from it but some, especially the young will eat it. Being most of the country was very wet there is lots of milk weed around.