Doe sick again! Advice needed, please!

I'm sorry to hear about your doe. I missed the original thread when she was sick last time too, I guess.

I was going to suggest looking into poisoning and maybe treating with charcoal. Also, with her not eating, a cud transplant might have been an option.

I am glad they are going to investigate further. Hopefully they will come up with some answers for you.

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Heather Fair
Fair Skies Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats
All I Saw Farm
Wasilla, Alaska
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No, negative there, too. Vets are stumped. They're expecting some sort of tumour or neurological issue (such as damage from an injury. ie. blood clot).

hoofinitnorth, strangely, with me hand-feeding her, she would be in the pen chewing her cud. Very odd.

Thanks for the support, everyone.

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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap."

I am so sorry, you did so much for her. No one can every say you didn't do your best for her and it is a hard decision to make, but either she suffers or you do. Its not easy, my prayers are with you.

Oh, I'm so sorry! You tried so hard to save her.

I was away most of the weekend and didn't see this thread. I'd be very interested to hear what they find out from the necropsy.

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"Crivens!"

Half Caper Farm - breeding Saanens, Boers and Nigerian Dwarfs

Well, got the results from the Ag college:

Nothing contagious or indicative of any disease or genetic disorder. They found a brain abcess that turned out to be a blood clot of some sort; they were all in agreement that it was just one of those fluke injuries, probably caused by either an altercation with a goat, banging into a post or wall, or from a fall.

They figure maybe the first time around, she had the clot swelling starting to go down and perhaps took a second blow, maybe from a goat head butt or whatever, that that encouraged a second round of worse swelling. She was a little on the lower end of the rank scale in terms of goat bossiness, so it's not too hard to imagine one of the higher-ranking goats coming down on her.

In any event, I am relieved that it's not something contagious or that which might have been passed along to her twin kids she had earlier this year. She was one of my favourite goaties, though, so we'll miss her.......

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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap."

I wish I would ahve been able to post on this site awhile ago. 2 yrs ago I had a doe just like this. She walk around in a daze almost like she was blind. Half her face seemed paralyzed. And before she was spunky and would come to you when called her name. Where at this time she wouldn't. I would up doing research on the internet and came up with listerosis and polio. What I did was for 5 days gave her 5cc of Pen-G 4x daily and also 1000mg of VitaminB1.
Then after those 5 day for a week I gave her 5cc of Pen-g and 500 mg of Vitamin B1. After that she was fine in about a week but kept her quarantine and the meds unit after the 12 days. The following Aug after all this she gave birth to twins andthis year she was pregnant but I sold her as I am trying to get out of goats due to selling my house. Hoping one day in the future to get back inot them love them but got to sacrifice some things for a better future. Sorry to hear that you had to put her down.

Mike

At least you have the comfort of knowing that it's not contagious, and that it's nothing you did or didn't do. And you do have a couple of kids out of her - that helps a lot, I find.

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"Crivens!"

Half Caper Farm - breeding Saanens, Boers and Nigerian Dwarfs

Mike, that's pretty much how it went down with this doe the first time around. I did pretty much what you did and she recovered. Maybe she had polio the first time, and an injury the second? Vet discounts the polio theory but I'm not so sure they're right about that. BUT it could also have been an injury that was re-injured I suppose. I find it hard to discount the polio-type symptoms during her deworming treatment though.

pooks, yeah, but I sold them both. Then again, although they were nice goats, they didn't have her sweet personality. They were more of a "regular" goat, if you know what I mean.......

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