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Thanks Roll,
I looked on here and had seen to use Valbazen at 2-3x recommended -- BUT she's also on the small sideand so thin now, and I don't know her exact weight. I hope it worked out ok. Not quite daylight here and my morning routine goes a LOT smoother if I don't open the goat shed until I can let them out.
She actually looked much better when I got home. Still looked awful, but better than she did at dawn yesterday. Maybe the red cell had perked her up some.
Edited to add: she scarfed SOME grain last night, I don't think she finished it. I also put her back onthe clover while I did my chores and cut some branches from a hackberry tree. She ate leaves for a little while but didn't finish them. Hackberry leaves seem to be the favorite browse of ALL my goats but since the llama loves them too there are no branches in the pasture they can reach.
Anyway, I gave 8mL valbazen, only 12 mL red cell (she really really hates it and I am having to use a syringe), a human-sized dose of a strong good quality liquid multi B (when I read the pkg insert for the injectable B12 it scared me to death - it IS mostly used for anemia in humans tho), probios, and about 18 mL blackstrap molasses (mixed with the Valbazen, B, and red cell - mostly to try and get her to be willing to swallow it).
Her stomach wasn't empty, of course, but I wanted to start right away.
It was too late to check the others' eyelids last evening but I'll look at the rest of them today. Everyone's condition except this one is fair to good and all the lesser ones have been improving. Even the other doe with BIG twins of the same age has put on a little condition.
I'll know in a little while how she's doing.
Thanks again
I looked on here and had seen to use Valbazen at 2-3x recommended -- BUT she's also on the small sideand so thin now, and I don't know her exact weight. I hope it worked out ok. Not quite daylight here and my morning routine goes a LOT smoother if I don't open the goat shed until I can let them out.
She actually looked much better when I got home. Still looked awful, but better than she did at dawn yesterday. Maybe the red cell had perked her up some.
Edited to add: she scarfed SOME grain last night, I don't think she finished it. I also put her back onthe clover while I did my chores and cut some branches from a hackberry tree. She ate leaves for a little while but didn't finish them. Hackberry leaves seem to be the favorite browse of ALL my goats but since the llama loves them too there are no branches in the pasture they can reach.
Anyway, I gave 8mL valbazen, only 12 mL red cell (she really really hates it and I am having to use a syringe), a human-sized dose of a strong good quality liquid multi B (when I read the pkg insert for the injectable B12 it scared me to death - it IS mostly used for anemia in humans tho), probios, and about 18 mL blackstrap molasses (mixed with the Valbazen, B, and red cell - mostly to try and get her to be willing to swallow it).
Her stomach wasn't empty, of course, but I wanted to start right away.
It was too late to check the others' eyelids last evening but I'll look at the rest of them today. Everyone's condition except this one is fair to good and all the lesser ones have been improving. Even the other doe with BIG twins of the same age has put on a little condition.
I'll know in a little while how she's doing.
Thanks again