Help me figure this out? Pinkeye or something else?

Lada · #1 04/01/12, 11:26 AM

I had what I thought was pinkeye running through the herd, and I figured it came from the new 4H wether we brought in. Treated everyone with LA200, 3cc/100 lbs for three days in a row. Everyone looked good after that. Then yesterday one doe had a weepy, opaque looking eye. Now today a different doe has a gunkey eye, and snot coming out of her nose. No fevers, no one is off feed, normal pee and poop, everyone has been copper bolused and wormed. The doe who is now weepy aborted 13 days ago, which I thought was the pinkeye, but could also have just been due to getting knocked around or something.

Does pinkeye usually clear up with the la200? Did I give enough, for long enough? Does pinkeye present with a snotty nose too? And if not, what am I dealing with here; do goats get colds and allergies? I'm at a loss. The gunky, snotty doe is still pregnant and I dont' want her to abort. Of course, I gave the la200 thinking for sure that I was dealing with pinkeye and giving it was the lesser of two evils, especially since I had already lost a set of twins due to it. But now I'm not even sure that's what I've got going on.

Help?????

SpiderLegs · #2 04/01/12, 12:15 PM

Yes goats get Allergies, but

it does not present with cloudy eyes.

I would say you are still battling Pink eye....and have allergies in the herd.

We have never given LA as a shot to treat pinkeye, actually we won't have LA on the farm since it stings so bad when given to a goat.

We put Neosporin or some biomycin directly in the eye (no needle), everyday for two weeks. It helps also to do a barn cleaning if the whole herd is coming down with it since it is contagious.

Alice In TX/MO · #3 04/01/12, 01:12 PM

I've never *heard* of using a systemic antibiotic for pink-eye.

Ditto on Neosporin etc topically.

Edited to add: LA200 also hurts like the dickens when injected, as it has a "sting" carrier. Not something many of us goatie folks use.

Lada · #4 04/01/12, 05:28 PM

The one goat has a cloudy eye, the other has gunk, and a snotty nose. So you're thinking the cloudy one has pinkeye, but the other probably has allergies?

I always heard LA200 was the go-to for pinkeye. Hmmmm. I do know that it stings, but lots of things we do to the goats are most likely uncomfortable for them, but we do them for their own good.

I will try the neosporin on the cloudy-eyed doe, and just keep an eye on the gunky/snotty ones for now.

Cliff · #5 04/01/12, 05:39 PM

LA 200 is used for pinkeye in cattle. I'm almost sure I've heard stories of old farmers even putting it directly in the eye also (not as a shot, just squirting it in and rubbing it around so it spreads in the eye socket.)

Alice In TX/MO · #6 04/01/12, 06:06 PM

Biomycin is the same antibiotic as LA200, but without the sting.

vpierce · #7 04/01/12, 06:22 PM

This is what I did. Sandi's little buckling some how ended up with a really bad gooey eye a day after he was born. I let it go for a couple of days but it didn't get better. I used warm water to clean it, than I had medicine from when MY human kids had pink eye and put in one drop two times a day morning and night for three days and it cleared up. I understood that if I did that, than there was a possibility of him going blind in that eye, but it really didn't matter since Sandi was breed to feed our family. He did not go blind and he is doing awesome. I also used this stuff on my cats. That's just what I did.