04/29/10, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Virginia
Posts: 61
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Please help! Sick baby
Hello, I have just recently bought my "first" goats. One (Annabelle) is a Nubian/Alpine mix and the other (Tinkerbelle) 100% Alpine. Annabelle is bottle fed and doing wonderful. We got her at 3 days old.
Tinkerbelle we got already weaned and was born March 15 (about 7 weeks old).Last night I went to shut them in the barn and she got up and came toward me wobbleing and hunched up. She started throwing up really foul green stuff while all the time chewing/grinding her teeth. I called the goat farmer that sold me Tinkerbelle and she suggested that she possibly had eaten mountian laurel/rodendendrum from my yard..and that is real possible. I let the two run free in the yard yesterday since I was home all day. I did not watch them continously. I mixed a antidote ( 1/4 mineral oil, 1/2 cup strong tea, tsp.ground ginger and tsp.baking soda) given to me by the farmer. My wife and I battled the baby but got some of the stuff down. She belched some and I spent the night in the barn with her. She layed beside me some but was up and down. She did nibble alittle on hay and drank alittle water. I got up about 4am and went to the house because it was pretty cold. I went back this morning around 8 and she was up but still grinding her teeth alittle but no green stuff. She followed me into the yard. She was able to poop alittle (no real hard but soft dark stools) and only peeded alittle. I put both in the lot. She is drinking quite a bit of water which I think is a good sign. Please give me your thoughts . I am so new to this. I love both of my girls very much and would hate to loose either. Anyone had similar situations? Any input is appreciated. I will post pictures later today. God Bless , Ron
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