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No he didn't eat any of the contaminated hay. He seemed perfectly fine until I went to feed everyone and my herd queen knocked him over on his side and he couldn't get up. I got a hold of a local goat person immediately for injectable vitamin b and I took him to her house where she gave him a couple different shots and something in his mouth and sent me home with a syringe with 2 doses of something green. As of yesterday he could still get up from a normal laying down position but he doesn't want to be out in the cold and usually he does.

Dang.

Will your sheriff take a report for the vandalism? Will your homeowner's insurance cover the loss of hay?

Sorry your boy is ailing. Do you have a lot of deer in the area? (Yes, I am paranoid about meningeal worm. How did you notice?)

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Reading the Tennessee Meat Goats page had me panicking about meningeal worm because my friend said his eyelids looked a little paler than they should be...I had looked but didn't think so, maybe they were paler because of cold and stress of riding in the trunk? I'll post a picture so you guys and gals can tell me what you think, but I'm thinking he was hunched with stiff back legs yesterday because of the shot I gave him in his thigh. He's not really wanting to walk around, and it's been wet, cold, warm repeat so I pulled out the kid pen (kiddie pool filled with wood chips and surrounded by a pet yard pen) and put him in the garage with his own hay and water and gave him a shot of PenG because I noticed a crusty nose. Hopefully his warmer drier location will aid his recovery. He has been wormed with a 500 pound dose of ivermectin paste (he's a yearling mini Nubian) do I need to repeat? The tube says single dose but that's for horses, not sure if I need to do it again for goats.

Now the really good news: My new friend pointed me to a vet that will work with me and let me buy meds! Whoop! I got a bottle of B complex and ordered some epinephrine since I've been shy about doing CD&T since the sad ending of Peachy. I gave him 5ml and was planning to repeat before dinner since the bottle says I can give another dose if desired but figured I would check here first. The vet isn't knowledgeable about goats but is at least willing to sell me meds for them.

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Yes, there are a lot of mule deer that hang out on my street. Unless someone tells me otherwise though, because I see pink membranes, I'm thinking thiamine deficiency. How much do I need to give him? Is the dosage on the bottle correct in anyone's experience? Today, he can stand if I help him up, but keeps laying back down.

*flooded with relief*

I just went out to check on him and he seems perked up. He wagged his tail when he saw me. His poops are kind of clumpy but still pelleted, just stuck together, but they were normal at the beginning of all this. But I did feed them a pumpkin that the grocery store was giving away so I suspect the weird poops are from that. There's yellow but otherwise normal ones in where the girls are.

Ugh nope, he has gross mushy poop stuck to his tail today