Update: We put her down

[houndit]

Could it be Pregnancy toxemia? I have not experienced that with goats. Only rabbits. But I have heard about it from other people.

 

[samplekasi]

I've decided to break down and see if the BYHers could help me out with this doe.

18-month-old bottle fed Boer doe, bred in August, aborted normal twin kids in November. She then became very depressed and anemic (white eyelids, gums). I wormed her several times with three types of wormers and she was still anemic.

Then, this past week, she has greenish, foul-smelling diarrhea. I gave her some Probios because it's what I had on hand. I found an article on Fias about Cocci that fit her symptoms. She is in quarantine.

She's weak, has lost her appetite, and is down to 95 pounds. I gave her a 1 mL/5 lb dose of Sulmet today per our Ag Extension Service person who deals with meat goats. She advised that I should give 1 mL/10 lb for the next 4 days and if it did not clear up, she didn't know what to tell me.

Do you think this is Cocci or something more serious? What should my next course of action be?

Could it possibly be something left from when she aborted causing this was she flushed how far along was she ( ok I went back up and saw she was 3 months) etc. Does she had a temp?

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Well, we have some sad news. Friday we made the decision to put her down. She was in her house and was not moving and I actually thought she had died during the night. I went out and prepared her grave and went out to get her. When I got closer, she was still breathing and would lift her head a little bit and just look at me with the saddest eyes I've ever seen. It broke my heart. I went in the house and got the pistol because I knew what I had to do. When I went back out, I had to talk to her for an hour. My husband came out and saw what I was doing and went ahead and ended her suffering for me. What bothered me was that he didn't shoot her the correct way (head) but through her heart. When I looked and saw that, I broke down.

That was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. She was my first goat and a very, very sweet bottle fed doe.

I did have some cultures and fecal samples sent to the vet a little over a week ago and they came back for ketosis, cocci, and lung worms. We had started treatment, but I think she was just too weak.

It's so quiet out in the pasture now she's gone. But, I know we did the right thing and ended her suffering.

 

[freemotion]

You did the right thing. Smooches and hugs.....

 

[Roll farms]

Sorry you lost her.

 

[lilhill]

So sorry for your loss.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

sorry for the loss - i'm sure it was very difficult. hang in there.

 

[ksalvagno]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

So sorry to hear that.

 

[Ariel301]

Oh that is horrible! It's always so sad to lose an animal. We had a doe abort triplets a week ago and thought we were going to lose her too, but she recovered. I can understand your issue with vets...we've got several nearby, but none will treat goats. When our doe aborted, we asked about having a necropsy on the kids, and getting her checked out because she was very weak and bleeding a lot, but the vet just told us it would be cheaper to shoot her and get a new goat! If we had decided to see a vet and treat her, find out what made her abort, and get the necropsy, they would have charged us several hundred dollars! So we just had to give her some penicillin and hope she pulled through. You did the right thing, and she is not suffering now. Hopefully you will not have to deal with anything like this again for a very long time.