Sick Doe Due Soon Please Help!

CookingPam777 · #1 02/25/08, 06:20 AM

I have a doe that was due early March. I was not given an exact date. She is acting like she will have babies any day now. However she is sick. I went out and she let me put the food down and would not eat. Jaw dropper. This is the goat that jumps on me wants it so bad that by the time you can set the bowl down if you can you spilled it all hehehe. And eats it in no time flat and before the other goat can finish eats half of hers. Anyway a usually big eater. After I noticed that I turned to an assortment of poop. There was normal, huge one ball clumps and diaherra which looked like sakrette that had not set up. She had stuff everywhere. We were out grocercy shopping and my brother was home and he said the goats were out trying to break in the house(I have cameraed my goat knocking on house and making her way through our door into the kitchen hehe). So he went outside to put them back in. And big eater Lily was having a HUGE feast on feed. Ate cracked corn and duck food. Is there something in duck food that could make her not feel well? Or over eating? OR both? Is antibotic okay to give her since she is pregnant and close to her due date? I gave it to her in molasses water. She drank a little it appears. I noticed her not feeling well yesterday morning so it has been a day and she still looks blah. But I am not sure if that's just because she going to kid or what. Ideas anyone? Thank you for everyone patience and quick answers! It just seems like right now I am having problem after problem goat wise.

Patty0315 · #2 02/25/08, 07:15 AM

Do you have bloat treatment ? She neds that plus if she were mine I would give her cd antitoxin and antibiotics. Let me get the exact instructions TSC usually carries it or your vet.

Patty

ozark_jewels · #3 02/25/08, 07:15 AM

Yes, eating too much grain will cause BIG problems in ruminants. You should have taken preventative measures of mineral oil drenching when it happened to help her pass it through quickly. At this point I would give activated charcoal, mineral oil, Banamine, C&D Antitoxin and keep warm water available to her and watch to see if she is drinking. Don't give her *any* feed, just dry hay. Her gut is in *much* distress right now. I would also probably give her yogurt.
Use this as a learning lesson and put the feed somewhere tight or high where even if the goats get out, they cannot get into it.

nubiansinny · #4 02/25/08, 07:18 AM

I think your in for big problems! Go to dairygoatinfo.com and post there you'll get a better answer faster. I think she will bloat. is she swollen looking? Don't give her any more grain!! just hay. Try giving her some baking soda for the belly ache.I think you can give oil too .Go to the that site there is lots of info. i think the faster the better..hope things go well Ohh good we posted at the same time..What they said!

Patty0315 · #5 02/25/08, 07:19 AM

http://dairygoatinfo.com/index.php?topic=70.0

CookingPam777 · #6 02/25/08, 08:10 AM

Ozark it was in a usually locked barn. However brothers don't care if your goats get bloat from over eating in a barn that should have been closed because they left it open.

CookingPam777 · #7 02/25/08, 08:14 AM

She doesn't appear swollen at all. She is acting better just a little pregnant. The more time passes she seems like she is getting better. Is it possible that she could still have big problems? I gave her antibotics water.

ozark_jewels · #8 02/25/08, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by CookingPam777

Ozark it was in a usually locked barn. However brothers don't care if your goats get bloat from over eating in a barn that should have been closed because they left it open.

In that case I would put it in locked barrels inside the locked barn to protect the goats from the brothers.

By the way, I have three little brothers too....I know how thoughtless they can be without even meaning to. Little brothers give whole new meaning to the phrase "a one-track mind".

ozark_jewels · #9 02/25/08, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by CookingPam777

She doesn't appear swollen at all. She is acting better just a little pregnant. The more time passes she seems like she is getting better. Is it possible that she could still have big problems? I gave her antibotics water.

That she is scouring is a good sign. Better that they scour and pass it through, than to stop up and bloat. I would still do the activated charcoal and C&D antitoxin. Neither one will hurt and they can do a lot of good. If she is grinding her teeth or standing with head down, I would still do the Banamine.

fishhead · #10 02/25/08, 09:55 AM

What antibiotic did you give her? Some can kill off the bacteria in the rumen and make your problem worse or create one. I would be sure to give her probiotics or yogurt soon.

RiverPines · #11 02/25/08, 10:01 AM

IMO oral antibiotics is the worse thing to do. I too would be worried about throwing an already upset rumen totally off.

Probios now. I wouldn't even bother with yogurt. I'd be using the probios.

I would also use the probios for at least 3 days in a row and nothing to eat but hay.

CookingPam777 · #12 02/25/08, 10:06 AM

We moved Lily into another pen with a goat. She is now drinking moving and doing much better. I am just not going to feed her grain. Let her drink the fresh water have her babies and heal. I think she was a bit depressed since we had moved her friend out. Which was not helping her feel better.