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     Maggie Leman Posted From: 71.111.206.38 Rating: N/A |
This forum is for emergencies ONLY!!! This is a routine health question. I highly recommend joining Goatworld, this helps support this EMERGENCY forum and the 911 Medics list. As moderator this will be the only response I allow to this request. Preventive care is important too. Please feel free to continue this conversation with me privately, I'll do all I can to help. My email is maggidans@msn.com Proper mineral supplementation seems to be key in a strong immune system. What kind of mineral block do you use? Many goats do not make good use of a block (but some are specially designed for goats), they are designed for animals with large and/or rough tongues. Goat's tongues are smooth and small. Also be sure you are using a mineral supplement for goats, not sheep and goats. Goats need copper, but sheep can't tolerate it. I have found a loose mineral mix was much better for my goats, a beef cattle mineral with a 2:1 calcium to phosphorus ratio to be quite a good substitute. Giving unnecessary antibiotics doesn't prevent anything, if anything it makes matters much worse. You create "super bugs" very resistant germs that cannot be killed by most antibiotics. You may be overworming. This also makes resistant parasites. Especially if you are underdosing (and most dewormers are not given at a high enough dose for goats if you give the horse or cattle dose. Even the "New" goat Safeguard is labeled at the old cattle dose, which is much too low to be effective for goats. What do you use and how much do you give? | ||
| Traci Payne (Unregistered Guest) Posted From: 148.104.5.2 Rating: N/A |
I have 31 goats all of them fat and seem to be healthy other than a cough. I worm them every 30 days on the dot. They are all grazing on pasture, hay, and supplemental blocks free choice. I live in Texas and it's been kind of dry here. I worry about respiratory diseases. Is there something else I can give them so that the flu or any other respiratory related distress won't set in? Or am I just overly protective of my 31 kids? Every now and then one of them may have a runny nose, but I don't want to overload them on antibiotics and shock their systems. I just try my best to watch them. I know winter will be here soon and I would like to head off anything that I can before it sets in. Thank you, Traci | ||
| Maggie Leman Posted From: 64.102.64.113 Rating: N/A |
Dear Jim, CL is short for caseous lymphadenitis. This incurable highly contagious disease casues abscesses usually associated with a lymph gland. There are several good articles on the Article page under the heading CL. Genearlly goats with suspicious abscess should be isolated and the pus from the abscess tested to know if your goat (and herd) has CL. This disease is contagious to humans (but not highly contagious). | ||
| Jim B (Unregistered Guest) Posted From: 209.165.40.46 Rating: N/A |
What is CL? My Doe has a hard Lump? | ||
| Maggie Leman Posted From: 64.102.64.113 Rating: N/A |
These are common places for CL abscesses. Isolate the doe, have the vet culture the pus from the abscess, form a plan on how you wish to control or irradicate this from your farm. Most abscesses are not CL but better safe than sorry. | ||
| Linda Houle Posted From: 66.101.30.17 Rating: N/A |
I too have a doe that has developed 2 lumps on her 1 lower on her neck and the other one is on her jaw right below her ear. Please help | ||
| Violet (Unregistered Guest) Rating: N/A |
Hi, I had the same thing going on with almost all my kids this year, I was told that it is probably milk groiter, and will go away after they quit nursing. If it is loose, and not a hard lump that is probably what it is. Mine have all lost it now. It is very normal, and a sign that the kids are getting plenty of milk. | ||
| Jim B (Unregistered Guest) Rating: N/A |
I have a 16 week old Alpine Doe that has a quarter sized lump under her chin. Is this normal or should I worry. She was sick with a cough and runny nose but she is getting LA200 and getting better. She doesn't have worms. |