Hacking/choking

[Naturaldane]

My 4 month old lamancha nunbian cross started kinda making a hacking sound and will streach her neck out like shes choking, if she was a horse I would say that was it. It doesn seem to bother her too much and its when shes eating grain and grass and its not on a frequent basis but is concering since shes been doing it for 2 days and we have had the new goat for 4 that maybe she cought a bug. The herd the new goat came from seemed fairly healthy and out of the hour I was there no one was doing this. My goat however has not been vaccinated for anything.
I can and most certainly will take her to the vet if needed but I really try to avoid the vet if at all possible.
should I wait till this goes away to treat her with DE? the new goat had lice , oh and one other possible element is that she now shares the small barn with the chickens at night.
Thanks in advance

[tmfinley]

One of my does will do a similar thing to this sometimes. It is a combination between coughing and dry heaving and is rhythmic. My boys thought it was hiccups. I posted about it and was told it could just be her trying to get her cud up. Others had similar experiences. I think this is all it is with my doe.

Tiffany

[Beulah Gardens]

She can't get to any chicken mash or something like that can she? I had a goat that just worried me sick because of her coughing/choking with such force it was scary. I took her to the vet ..$60 later he still didn't know what it was. I brought her home and put her back in the pasture and as my husband and I were standing there discussing what the vet said..... I saw her lift and edge of the turkey pen and help her self to a few mouthfuls of feed and move on............we moved the pen and the coughing/choking magically stopped. It gums up in there and irritates the throat as they try to ruminate. just a thought.

[fishhead]

It sounds like she hasn't figured out how to swallow dry grain yet.