Help with doeling

[oberhaslikid]

I am baffeled I have a two week old doeling that I found in the hay manger stiff and couldnt move like a mytonic.I got her out and stood her up and she started walking away.Later She was missing when they come in to the barn I went looking and found her in the field stiff again.I brought her to the house.any suggestions?

[Feral Nature]

Could she have tetanus? Any wounds? Any other symptoms besides being stiff?

[CountryHaven]

My very first thought would be tetnus too.

[oberhaslikid]

I took her to the vet to have her horns disbudded.scab has fallen off last night on one.couldnt have it that fast.I thought that also and if you set her up she takes off walking.I have her in the basement and been watching her shes laying down and getting up ok now I dont know what to think.It is too late to give her a tetnus shot now isnt it.

[KayJay]

Any chance she's a throwback to a Myotonic somewhere in her lineage?

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

From a wound like disbudding to stiffness and death from tetanus is 21 days, so she is not old enough. She can have brain swelling or menengitis from her disbudding if it was done too deep, she would have episodes of uncoordination or seizures, but she would also have a high temp. Did she have any clear fluid weeping from her disbudding job? What is her temp?

Vicki

[oberhaslikid]

I gave her Bose and vit E last night in case it was white muscle.I took her to the vet he disbuds them and puts a salve on the site and the mother usually licks it off.She was born 4/1 disbud 4/6.
I checked her again, her jaw is tight I never noticed this before just the stiff legs.she couldnt nurse lastnight I gave her 1cc of antitoxin.

[fishhead]

What's her temp?

I wouldn't think that debudding could result in tetanus because it's not a puncture wound.

I seem to remember reading that there is a test for tetanus that involves tapping the jaw and watching to see if the eyes roll back.

[CountryHaven]

Still sounds like Tetnus to me.