05/09/05, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Middle of nowhere along the Rim, Arizona
Posts: 3,096
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If it were my animal, and I really valued the animal and didn't want to risk losing them, I would make a vet visit to a livestock vet if only to get the proper antiobiotics and steroids. Any livestock vet should be able to look up the proper dosages for this sort of thing. There are very few "goat" vets, but this is a pretty basic thing to treat in an animal.
I know with dogs you "can" treat with benadryl and penicillin, but staph (which is a big concern with snakebite) tends to be resistant to penicillin and the other otc antiobiotics. With dogs, they do better on an rx antiobiotic and steroid like dex or prednisone, in my experience.
No experience on goats and snakebit, though.
If I were to treat at home, I'd do the benadryl (no idea on the dose, though and benadryl is not a good one to OD on in an animal that may be shocky to start with), plus an antibiotic ASAP and probably tetanus antitoxin on general principles. Infection/tetanus/gangrene/tissue death/etc. is the real concern with snakebite, if the animal's not having actual airway problems. Assuming this is a rattler bite. I've seen horses slough hoofs after a bite ... But - not probably one that I'd try to home treat, simply because the right meds are not otc.
Leva
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