*UPDATE*7-5 Help! My 4 day old buck with white runny poop?PICS

[cindy78]

Yesterday I noticed his bottom had poop stuck to it. His poop was a bit runny and yellow, seemed to be a little blood tinged. I cleaned him off and this morning this is what he had on his butt.

I found this poop on the ground.

He is being raised by the mom.

I also noticed that his mom has pale eyelids and gums. SHe is eating fine. I last dewormed her with Ivomec at the end of March. Her eyelids have been pink throughout her pregnancy. I didn't know she was pregnant.

I will take a sample to the vet today as soon as I can get it. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated!

 

[cindy78]

I forgot to mention that the poop does not have any smell to it.

 

[20kidsonhill]

AFter a doe kids she can have a worm bloom, many of us worm all our does the day after kidding to help with this. I don't worm on a regular basis, but if I have a doe not looking well after kidding, pale eye lids, loosing weight, I worm them on the heavy side. another words I make sure I give them plenty of wormer for their weight and I often use a stronger family of wormer compared to a weaker family of wormer. coccidiosis can also be a problem this time a year with a younger doe who just kidded. I would also consider giving her red cell or iron shots(ferrous). building her iron up in her system will help her fight off future worm loads once you get this worm load under control.


baby looks to have milk scours or bacterial scours, if he is still eating and not running a tempurature above 103.00 I would let it go for a day, assume it is just milk scours. If he is running a temp. or acting sluggish, I would treat him with spectam scour-halt available at feed stores, it may be going by a slightly different name, it is a red liquid bacterial scour medicine normally used for pigs. I would also consider Penn G shots if he is running a tempurature above 103.5 and is off feed and sluggish.

 

[ksalvagno]

If you can get in to the vet, I would take the goat in with you along with a stool sample. The only time I have seen white poop is when a kid wasn't digesting the milk and I lost him.

 

[20kidsonhill]

If you can get in to the vet, I would take the goat in with you along with a stool sample. The only time I have seen white poop is when a kid wasn't digesting the milk and I lost him.

That's is a good point, I should have clarified, that I have never had one with that kind of poop, I have seen it like that in baby pigs, that is really not normal, in my experience.

This is the kid that was born on the doe that was being milked? You didn't know she was pregnant, I was wondering about cholostrum(sp?) for the baby when she never had a drying off period. Any of you experienced people think this could be a problem?

 

[cindy78]

If you can get in to the vet, I would take the goat in with you along with a stool sample. The only time I have seen white poop is when a kid wasn't digesting the milk and I lost him.

That's is a good point, I should have clarified, that I have never had one with that kind of poop, I have seen it like that in baby pigs, that is really not normal, in my experience.

This is the kid that was born on the doe that was being milked? You didn't know she was pregnant, I was wondering about cholostrum(sp?) for the baby when she never had a drying off period. Any of you experienced people think this could be a problem?

I wanted to take him to the vet today but the only vet that sees goats is not in today. I was just going to take the fecal in today. I haven't checked his temp yet. He is still eating. And yes he was born from the doe that I had been milking throughout her pregnancy . A friend of mine that raises goats says that she should still have colostrum even though I was milking her. I will run to the feed store and ask them and get whatever I can to help him till I can get him to the vet. The people at the feed stores around here don't seem too knowledgeable about goats??? I was thinking if it could be that he is impacted? I read a thread on BYC about a similar problem and she gave her goat enemas and suppositories.?? I don't know. I don't wanna put too much stress on him. He is sleeping a lot but he does get up and walk around and even jumps around like a wild bull. lol I need to find my thermometer to take his temp. Never seem to find things when I NEED them!!

Should I give him ProBios?

Thanks for the advice.

 

[ksalvagno]

It really depends on if you dried her off at all. I would say that if she was never dried off, she never produced colostrum. If you do enemas, I would just do a soapy water enema.

How old is he? Probios doesn't do a whole lot for the very young. They haven't developed a proper rumen at that point.

 

[cindy78]

It really depends on if you dried her off at all. I would say that if she was never dried off, she never produced colostrum. If you do enemas, I would just do a soapy water enema.

How old is he? Probios doesn't do a whole lot for the very young. They haven't developed a proper rumen at that point.

She was never dried off because I never knew she was pregnant. He is only 4 days old. I will try the soapy water enema. Thank you.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

I'd get him to the vet as soon as one is available.

 

[cindy78]

I gave him a little ProBios a few hours ago. I just went to check on him right now and he just pooped and it was kinda like toothpaste consistency and it was yellow again?? I'm about to head out to the feed store in a few minutes anyway to have some things on hand. I was reading about giving CD ANTItoxin? What do you think? til I can get to the vet tomorrow? He is up and following mom around when she gets up and was running when I went out. He's not weak or anything. Just the weird white poop in the morning. :/