Can't Stop Peeing!

thaiblue12 · #1 04/22/07, 10:20 AM

Ok our new bottle baby (2weeks old) has just started peeing and peeing and peeing! She fights the bottle a bit but I still get her to drink 8 oz four times a day. She has enough enery that when I let her out of the dog carrier she makes a bee line to my Golden and proceeds to "graze" on him. The big dork lets her. She loves to eat hair and I have caught her chewing on mine as well. She is going to have one major hairball!
Anyway this morning she was out of the carrier laying down and just peed I am not even sure she realized she as peeing. Then a little while later she squated and peed. Then about 10 mins later she peed a bit more. Pooped some and walked about 20 feet and squated again a little pee came out. Maybe 10 mins passed and she did the same thing again a few feet away.
Then I went out to feed the big girls and when I got back in there was a bit more pee.
I have been using the tea bags on her crusty eyes and that seems to be working well. I have not given her a CD&T shot yet. I hear 2 weeks, then others say 8 weeks. So I was going to spilt the difference and give it to her at 5 weeks.
Besides the above she acts fine in the house and when I take her outside for a while.
Is this peeing something to worry about or a I overreacting? Sorry one of our seemling healthy ferrets died not too long after a spay last week. She was not even a year old and I am going to be a bit of a worrier right now.

mamajohnson · #2 04/22/07, 03:20 PM

Well, I would be interested in seeing some answers to this... Something new to me.

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Originally Posted by thaiblue12

Ok our new bottle baby (2weeks old) has just started peeing and peeing and peeing! She fights the bottle a bit but I still get her to drink 8 oz four times a day. She has enough enery that when I let her out of the dog carrier she makes a bee line to my Golden and proceeds to "graze" on him. The big dork lets her. She loves to eat hair and I have caught her chewing on mine as well. She is going to have one major hairball!
Anyway this morning she was out of the carrier laying down and just peed I am not even sure she realized she as peeing. Then a little while later she squated and peed. Then about 10 mins later she peed a bit more. Pooped some and walked about 20 feet and squated again a little pee came out. Maybe 10 mins passed and she did the same thing again a few feet away.
Then I went out to feed the big girls and when I got back in there was a bit more pee.
I have been using the tea bags on her crusty eyes and that seems to be working well. I have not given her a CD&T shot yet. I hear 2 weeks, then others say 8 weeks. So I was going to spilt the difference and give it to her at 5 weeks.
Besides the above she acts fine in the house and when I take her outside for a while.
Is this peeing something to worry about or a I overreacting? Sorry one of our seemling healthy ferrets died not too long after a spay last week. She was not even a year old and I am going to be a bit of a worrier right now.

ozark_jewels · #3 04/22/07, 04:23 PM

Constantly squatting to pee but passing little bits at a time can be a sign of a bladder or urinary tract infection.

thaiblue12 · #4 04/22/07, 04:46 PM

Well the first two were floods of pee and then she kept on going. These past few hours she has peed 3 more times and good amounts Crusty eyes getting better but I think she has a bit of runny nose now. I swear it is like having a real baby!
My feed store sells injectable penicillian. Should I get it and give her some? If so how much and for how long?
Thanks

moonspinner · #5 04/22/07, 05:33 PM

My guess too would be UTI though never heard of that in such a young goat. I assume a sulfa like Penicillin would be the treatment if it is a urinary infection.

ozark_jewels · #6 04/22/07, 07:40 PM

See if she squats and dribbles. If she is just peeing a lot and often, thats normal for a bottle kid. You truly don't realize how much babies pee until you keep one inside!

Its just like human babies...wet *all* the time!
But if she is squatting and dribbling often, then I would still go with UTI. Before treating though, make sure its not just normal peeing for a kid on milk.....its just about all they do at that age.

thaiblue12 · #7 04/22/07, 08:37 PM

Thanks Emily. I did not know so much pee could come out of something so small in an hour!

She doesn't strain she goes and goes and goes. Hard to keep a diaper on her so I am going through paper towels and cleaner like crazy.

PlowGirl · #8 04/22/07, 09:32 PM

You mentioned that the doeling was kept in a crate. Most goats don't like urine to splatter on them, especially from a hard surface, so she could be learning to hold it until she is let out. This might be a good time to train her to go outdoors, like crate training a dog. They're also very good to train to go on a cloth or newspapers, since there's less splatter.

Like Emily said, you don't realize how much goats urinate, until you keep one inside. At this stage, her diet is probably 100% liquid, so it's not surprising that she's going to pee a lot more than poop.

Bearfootfarm · #9 04/22/07, 09:59 PM

Youre putting in a quart a day. A lot of that will come out, and it always LOOKS like more than it really is when they pee. Sounds normal to me

DQ · #10 04/23/07, 09:13 PM

my little bottle baby (boy) would stand and pee, and pee and pee. we sat around and marveled at the amount of pee that was in there. he would stand for a full 30 seconds peeing, just looking around at the world.