Sick Goat - any ideas on what is wrong?

GoslingFever · #1 10/28/14, 07:05 AM

Hi guys. We need your goat expertise.

We have a huge, beautiful, stocky, sturdy Kiko cross doe, 2 years old, just bred October 6th.

Yesterday, she was vocalizing, which is odd for her. She was staring off towards the buck pen (so we thought) so we thought maybe she didn't take and she was coming back into heat.
She ate fine, walked and moved normally.

12 hours later, she is standing frozen, nose almost to the ground. Non responsive. She let us give her Thiamine without moving. (To let us catch her at all without making us work for it is odd enough but to take THIAMINE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE?) When we lifted her head she made a weak, far-away quiet baaah. But otherwise, not a sound, not a movement. Just standing there.

Eyes look fine. No change to food. Her pasture mates appear and are acting completely normal.

Polio/Listerosis came to mind but she isn't star gazing or moving oddly or down so not sure what to think.
Our poor girl!

Any ideas on what this could be, and how to treat it?

Alice In TX/MO · #2 10/28/14, 07:08 AM

Take her temperature. Listen to her lungs and rumen. Palpate her gut.

**mygoat** · #3 10/28/14, 07:52 AM

Temperature. If it were me, I'd be giving entero Antitoxin as well. Check membranes and note anything else weird. See if she is having gut pain (colic).

GoslingFever · #4 10/28/14, 09:04 AM

Thanks guys!! She has a fever at 105. I am off to get the antitoxin thanks for that lead

**mygoat** · #5 10/28/14, 10:04 AM

I'd start her on a good antibiotic too, with a fever like that.

Goatsandsheep · #6 10/28/14, 11:41 AM

Don't know about your area, but here we're having a lot of pneumonia or respiratory infections.

GoslingFever · #7 10/28/14, 08:32 PM

SHE'S IMPROVED! She was acting more normal within hours of giving the meds (yes to the antibiotic MyGoat, thanks!) and by this evening she began eating and drinking. So very, very relieved to see her doing better.

Nubians · #8 10/30/14, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by GoslingFever

Hi guys. We need your goat expertise.

We have a huge, beautiful, stocky, sturdy Kiko cross doe, 2 years old, just bred October 6th.

Yesterday, she was vocalizing, which is odd for her. She was staring off towards the buck pen (so we thought) so we thought maybe she didn't take and she was coming back into heat.
She ate fine, walked and moved normally.

12 hours later, she is standing frozen, nose almost to the ground. Non responsive. She let us give her Thiamine without moving. (To let us catch her at all without making us work for it is odd enough but to take THIAMINE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE?) When we lifted her head she made a weak, far-away quiet baaah. But otherwise, not a sound, not a movement. Just standing there.

Eyes look fine. No change to food. Her pasture mates appear and are acting completely normal.

Polio/Listerosis came to mind but she isn't star gazing or moving oddly or down so not sure what to think.
Our poor girl!

Any ideas on what this could be, and how to treat it?

We had a doe that did exactly that.
We gave her Vitamin B Complex and wormed her and she pulled through. Though she was a little weak for awhile but she is good now.

GoslingFever · #9 11/02/14, 06:20 PM

Thanks Nubians! Never heard of one acting like this with Polio so it's good to hear of anecdotes like this and REALLY great to hear yours is doing good now! Our girl is herself again and we are so grateful.

Pony · #10 11/03/14, 11:42 AM

Whew! So glad she's better!