Oh no. I'm so sorry for you. I wish I could help, but I really have no idea what's going on with him. Mine ended up being polio, and the pure thiamine injections (not the thiamine mix stuff from TSC) cured her. She's been fine ever since. I hope you find out what's wrong and he turns out ok!
Sorry for the update delay. Eleanor seems to be doing MUCH better after a few doses of the actual Thiamine. Funny how that worked so fast while the recommend dosage of the B complex did nothing.
She hasn't had one of her rolling episodes (convulsions?), which were getting more and more frequent...
Thank you everyone for your latest comments.
This morning I contacted our horse vet, who knows surprisingly a lot about goats, who referred me to a local vet that sells the straight Thiamine without the hefty vet bill. They gave us 6 pre-dosed syringes (smaller needles, thankfully), 1.25ml each...
Here's the article I found, from tennesseemeatgoats.com:
Goat Polio (Polioencephalomalacia) is a metabolic disease with symptoms that often mimic or overlap those of the brain-stem disease Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes). In most cases, both of these diseases are seen in goats raised...
Thank you! That's exactly what I was thinking it was, but our dosage must be too little since she hasn't improved at all (gotten worse, actually). We did get the B vitamin complex at TSC. It says it has 100 mg of thiamine? We'd been injecting 2.25 ccs into her thigh muscle every 6 hours-ish. Do...
In advance, I apologize for the novel. I just wanted to be as specific as possible, to help give an idea of what could be going on with her.
About the goat:
So my DH, son, and I live on a 120+ acre family farm, with our only "neighbors" being family. We have one single pygmy goat doe. Her name...