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In Reply to: Re: Topic of the Day: Listeriosis posted by melissa on August 15, 2001 at 13:43:30:
A couple of years ago when we were first getting into purebreds we bought a lovely little Nubian buck. Having nothing to judge his development by we thought he was doing OK except that he never really looked like a buck just more like a hairy doe. And, he never smelled like a buck.
When he was about 7 months old he suddenly began to stagger and when I put my hand under his chin to lift his face so I could see it better he fell into convulsions on the ground. Every time I touched his chin he would convulse. Very weird. We called the vet immediately and despite the fact he had a deathly case of the flu the dear man came to our house. He examined Jasper and said he thought it was listeriosis but he said he had no idea why he would have caught it here as we didn't have any of the usual culprits around. He treated Jasper agressively with antibiotics and I don't know what else and told me that if it wasn't listeria maybe he would be alright. Jazz did improve a little but in no time he was right back where he started and we put him down. The diagnostic lab confirmed listeria. They also said that while the buck was abnormally small he was healthy and everything was perfectly normal. I don't know what was wrong with him there. Nobody has figured that one out.
The odd thing about it all was Jazz was in a pasture with 3 more bucks. None of them got sick. Our does were about 2-3 months along in their pregnancies and they were all eating the same grain and hay as Jazz. None of them aborted or showed any signs of being sick. We've not had another case before or since. And, I hope I never see it again.
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