Doe down, ideas needed.

susanne · #21 02/09/09, 02:49 PM

is she tested for cae?????

cayenne47 · #22 02/09/09, 03:10 PM

Yes all have been tested for cae.

I got some red cell down her---she was NOT impressed.
Shes still eating and drinking fine...still keeping up the probios and the vit B shots. The reason she is getting cob is because he wanted molasses or something down her for energy and she will eat that before her hay.

LOC · #23 02/09/09, 03:31 PM

I had a goat do this during the worse winter we had. The vet had made his usual trip to the East side of the state and got snowed in there for over a month. I was on my own.

The only calcium I could get my hands on was Tums. I fed that goat 8-12 tablets every 4 hours for 6 weeks. Once she kidded it took her about another week to get up and moving on her own again. She ate fine, pooped fine, just could not get up and when we stood her up she couldn't stand for long.

Now two years later she is healthy and fine and just gave me two healthy kids this morning.

We did everything you're doing but added in Tums. It took alot of effort and time. Once the vet made it back to this side of the state, he was surprised she was still alive and said to just keep doing whatever it was we were doing. He was no help.

I hope your doe recovers, don't give up until she does.

cayenne47 · #24 02/09/09, 06:03 PM

Just gave her 60cc injectable calcium, poor thing is so good about all the poking shes been subjected to. This is just about the last option, I hope it works.

Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians · #25 02/09/09, 06:45 PM

A 100 pound 5 or 6 year old Nubian? Not bred, not nursing, why would it be a metobolic crash? Does she have any body flesh at all? Could this be as simple as starvation, lack of energy? If she pigged out on grass hay when fed by herself, perhaps it's her first meal she has gotten with the older (maybe horned) goats picking on her?

So the vet saw no neuro symptoms at all with his look see? What about the tape worm that goes to the brain and causes weakness like this? Menengial worm? Does can be perfectly normal except that they are down with both of these.

I don't think calcium is going to do it. I would slowly start her on grain. Propolyn glycol is a much better form of energy than molassas of any kind. Molassas will give you nothing but acidosis, especially in a sluggish rumen in a doe with a low temp.

If your going to do subq minerals, make sure it's CMPK so it's not just calcium but phosphrous and magnesium also.

If you don't put her on profilactic treatments for pnemonia it is what will kill her like Susanne said.

Make sure also she is actually drinking enough, dehydration can set in very quickly especially when using heat lamps. Vicki

Madfarmer · #26 02/10/09, 08:30 AM

You said, "I would say she's a litle over 100#." Have you actually weight-taped her? It's important to know, since meds will be based on weight.

Madfarmer

susanne · #27 02/10/09, 08:58 AM

is this a mini nubian?
100 pounds sounds very thin to me if she would be normal size.
it is important to know the exact weight for dosing medication if you have a sick animal.