Goat doesn't want to eat, in pain

[SiameseVA]

I brought my goat out to milk her yesterday and she wouldn't touch her grain. She was still interested in raisins, hay, grass. I gave her oil. She started passing large, clumpy poops. Today she is still laying around, not wanting to eat much at all. I gave her baking soda yesterday and more oil. She looks at her belly like it hurts. Her temp has remained at 101.5 - 102. She's barely making any milk (not that that matters, just really worried about her!)

[Backfourty,MI.]

I don't have any ideas for you but I'm sure someone will see this & jump in to help.

I hope she starts feeling better for you, the baking soda sure can't hurt her & at least she's still eating grass & hay.

[southerngurl]

How are her eyelids?

[susanne]

i would bring a fecal sample to the vet and check. when was the last time you wormed her and what did you use?

[SiameseVA]

I have wormed her regularly with positive pellets (from tsc) I had a fecal sample looked it and it didn't show very many parasites. I havent checked her eyelids (I will tomorrow), but her gums do look pale. I gave her pepto bismol & ivermectin tonight. She's still passing the "dog poop" stools. I hope she feels better tomorrow. She's my favorite goat!

[susanne]

i would re check fecal and see if ivermectin helped. depending on your location it might not work anymore and you need to worm her with cydectin.
if her eyelids are pale and she is in pain, i assume she has blood sucking parasite (haemonchus contortue or barberpole worm) if not treated correctly, goats get very anemic and die.
i would give her fortified b complex and iron.

[Goat Servant]

JUst in case you dont know the clumpy poops are caused by the oil.

[Laverne]

From all I have read worms don't lay eggs much if at all in the winter and there are just adults in the goat so won't show eggs on a fecal. Here is a thread on that wormer. After I wormed my doe it took awhile for her diarrhea to go away.
http://dairygoatinfo.com/index.php?a...;topic=14375.0
Notice that wormer probably won't get all the worms. Also if you are in the south I'd worm with IvomecPlus to get liverfluke. Then nuitritional support, copper bolus, Bo-Se, I also give other support like calcium citrate, pro bios, zinc, ect, ect, I go all out.
Also oil messes up the rumen flora and can be aspirated so stomach tubing is the best way to give oil. Oil is for frothy bloat.

[southerngurl]

Could also be liver flukes, which cydectin will not get. They've been active this year. Youre in virginia?

Fecals aren't terribly accurate this time of year as the worms don't lay so much in the cold weather.

[SiameseVA]

Thanks everyone. Yes we're in Virginia. Thanks for the info on the worms, I didn't know that about winter fecals. She seems better today. I think the pepto did help her. Her poops are back to normal (probably was from the oil -- she seemed constipated before that) and she was chewing her cud today!! She ate some alfalfa pellets tonight. I am not sure when to start her back on her goat feed.