CourtneySC24
Ridin' The Range
This is our first experience with kidding goats and so far it’s been absolutely tragic.
One of our does had a premature stillborn on Monday night. (She was due at the end of June.) She’s always been the least dominant in the herd so a little on the skinnier side compared to the other two.
Tuesday, mid-day, she had a little bubble start forming, we assumed another stillborn was coming, but the bubble popped and only bloody stringy stuff came out. (Took her all day to get it out, placenta, I thought?) We also noticed on Tuesday that she suddenly had lice! We haven’t dealt with that ever either! So we treated her with CyLence, along with our other two does.
Wednesday we gently washed her butt off and gave her some Nutri-drench, she seemed to be coming around...
But now she is terribly weak. And seems to keep getting skinnier! Yesterday (Thursday) she fell down twice and I had to help her up both times. We took her temp (it was normal) and noticed there were maggots on her butt!! Called the vet and she said wash off the maggots with salt water (we did) but she didn’t have a fever so she’s probably just recovering? It seems like a bigger problem to me! She is eating and drinking, but her poop is really gross and not solid. She seems super sick to us.. Any advice?? We don’t know what to do about her.. is it something that could harm our other two pregnant does? Should we separate her?
One of our does had a premature stillborn on Monday night. (She was due at the end of June.) She’s always been the least dominant in the herd so a little on the skinnier side compared to the other two.
Tuesday, mid-day, she had a little bubble start forming, we assumed another stillborn was coming, but the bubble popped and only bloody stringy stuff came out. (Took her all day to get it out, placenta, I thought?) We also noticed on Tuesday that she suddenly had lice! We haven’t dealt with that ever either! So we treated her with CyLence, along with our other two does.
Wednesday we gently washed her butt off and gave her some Nutri-drench, she seemed to be coming around...
But now she is terribly weak. And seems to keep getting skinnier! Yesterday (Thursday) she fell down twice and I had to help her up both times. We took her temp (it was normal) and noticed there were maggots on her butt!! Called the vet and she said wash off the maggots with salt water (we did) but she didn’t have a fever so she’s probably just recovering? It seems like a bigger problem to me! She is eating and drinking, but her poop is really gross and not solid. She seems super sick to us.. Any advice?? We don’t know what to do about her.. is it something that could harm our other two pregnant does? Should we separate her?