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     Maggie Leman Moderator Username: maggieleman Post Number: 607 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 71.111.216.141  Rating: N/A |
Try not to think of losing one as a failure, it is a learning experience. That little life was here for a short while to teach you something. Maggie Leman Goat 911 Capri Medic | ||
| Sandi Scott New member Username: sarasotasandi Post Number: 53 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 76.1.0.155 Rating: N/A |
Maggie, I'm so glad to hear that. I lost one kid to my own inexperience one year, and another to pneumonia the next. I don't want to repeat either pattern. Sandi | ||
| Maggie Leman Moderator Username: maggieleman Post Number: 605 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 64.102.64.113 Rating: N/A |
Taking baby steps! Kids can be so tough. Try offering a soupy gruel of oatmeal with a bit of molasses that he can slurp up. I know one capri medic that swears by this. I think if you can get him to 12 weeks old or so when he will develop an active immune system he will make a full recovery. I had a little doe about 4 years ago that had what I called "nuclear coccidia". I had started her on Corid and ran through 2 complete courses of this before deciding it wasn't cocci and took her to the vet. She had raging diarrhea through all of this...She had so many coccidia you couldn't count them on a microscope slide, over 100 per field. We put her on 2 different types of sulfa drug at a horse dose (mind you this was a pygmy kid) and Nutridrench twice a day for over a month. She looked like a starving Ethiopian. She had a bad reaction to the sulfa and broke out in weeping hives, lost most of her hair and scabbed over 50 percent of her body. So I had to bathe her daily (you know how goats hate water) and apply udder balm to keep the scabs from cracking. Yet she refused to give up, went out with the herd daily, always ate. Long story short she is a beautiful doe today, and amazingly still loves me, you would never know she had been so sick as a kid. Goats are tough! I hope he continues to make baby steps towards recovery. Remember to love him alot. Maggie Leman Goat 911 Capri Medic | ||
| Sandi Scott New member Username: sarasotasandi Post Number: 52 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 76.1.0.155 Rating: N/A |
I've been using Sulmet. I heard about CoRid not being effective. I also read that it can cause thiamine deficiency and lead to goat polio. I hate to get my hopes up, but he drank most of the electrolyte solution I left for him last night, and this morning he took about 1/3 of his bottle. I'm going to put him back with the herd today and let him get out in the fresh air. Sandi | ||
| Maggie Leman Moderator Username: maggieleman Post Number: 604 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 64.102.64.113 Rating: N/A |
If you have been using Corid it is quite possible it won't work. Coccida has built a good resistance to Corid. This drug stopped working for me years ago. Maggie Leman Goat 911 Capri Medic | ||
| Sandi Scott New member Username: sarasotasandi Post Number: 51 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 63.87.188.226 Rating: N/A |
I have been treating for coccidia. His breathing doesn't seem quite as labored today, but he is still refusing to eat. I am going to stop all medicines and see if there is any improvement in appetite. Sandi | ||
| Maggie Leman Moderator Username: maggieleman Post Number: 600 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 71.111.216.141 Rating: N/A |
Have you checked for or treated for coccidia? With the damage done to the gut with cocci they can get a secondary intestinal infection.... This could be a fungal or mycoplasmic pneumonia, very hard to treat and usually takes a course of 30 to 60 days of an effective antibiotic. The vet can do a transtracheal wash to optain a sample to culture... The decongestant and antihistamine are both appetite supressant and can also make a goat lethargic (a common OTC antihistamine is also a common OTC appetite suspressant and OTC sleep aid). Maggie Leman Goat 911 Capri Medic | ||
| Sandi Scott New member Username: sarasotasandi Post Number: 50 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 76.1.0.155 Rating: N/A |
This is a 4 week old kid I wrote about earlier who can't seem to shake pneumonia. His temp is 104. He's been on 5 days of Naxcel, and is on his last day of Baytril. I have been giving decongestant and antihistamine. He has received CD/T and Bo-Se, and I wormed him with Ivermectin a week ago. He can't or won't take his bottle any longer. He does go to the field to graze with the other goats, and I see him nosing in the grain, but he's losing weight. His breathing is very labored, he's wheezing and his lungs sound full of fluid. Is there anything I'm missing? He's been to the vet, he is just as perplexed as I am. |