Baby goat needs help!

[brahmabreeder]

I have a Nigerian Dwarf Doeling that was born on Sunday who isn't cooperating. I started a thread on BYH, but not getting enough traffic so I'm posting here. I can't get her to "deflate" or pee. It's been awhile since she's peed and I'm starting to get really worried. I feel like she just needs to let all of the fluids in her stomach just pass through and we'll be fine, but she just keeps filling up every time I feed her and I don't want to give her much more since we're getting pretty full( I've been tubing her 20cc every two hours ). I gave her some bloat release medicine( 5cc at one o'colck.. the package said 6 fl. oz. per goat so I just scaled it waaay down ).http://www.backyardherds.com/threads/tiny-goat-wont-take-bottle.29512/#post-369629 Any suggestions?????

 

[chooks4life]

How often is she peeing?

It's possible she doesn't have the right internal configuration, or reduced capacity to eliminate, it's not too uncommon a defect, and that can make them anti-food. Not very helpful, sorry, but just a possibility, unhappy as it may be.

Best wishes.

 

[H Diamond]

So, her belly isn't going down at all between feedings? Does she look bloated? Can you post a pic of her?
What does her umbilical area look like? Is it clean and dry or wet at all?
Is she squatting? Acting like she is trying to pee but just can't get any out?
Is she pooing? What does it look like? When or if you've seen her pee, what does it look and smell like?
Have you checked her bedding? If you can't tell, change out her bedding to something that you can be sure and certain if it gets wet.
What is her temp? What are you tubing her with? (Goat millk? Powdered milk? Etc..)
How are you going about trying to feed her?

 

[cassie]

How is she acting? If her belly appears full I would stop the milk at once and give electrolytes instead. Google "floppy kid" and see what you find. If she has floppy kid, milk is the worst thing you can give her.

 

[brahmabreeder]

Well she didn't end up making it through. Yesterday around five or six in the morning she just couldn't take it any more. Since I had brought her home at six she hadn't peed up until when she passed away. I did see her pee a least once on Sunday, the day she was born. She did have a bloated look to her. I gave a little bit of bloat medicine at( 5cc ) around 2 AM yesterday.

The umbilical cord got dipped in iodine when she was born. It was dry and looking normal. I didn't notice her trying to pee. She also didn't poop on her own. I did the waster soap thing and got some out when I did that. The poop looked more wasn't real mustardy like normal baby goat poop. It was more brown than anything. The pee appeared normal. Don't know about any smell. The only thing I've done with her was tubed her. However I did get her to at least swallow the milk from the bottle ( I got her to drink it at two feedings the rest she wouldn't bother with the bottle so I just tube fed her ). The first three tube feeding she got the goat milk from her dam. I did however mix in a little bit of manna pro colostrum supplement once since Heidi didn't give me enough for them. It was about a 50/50 mixture. I gave her 22 cc the first time. Then around one to one and half the next time, which was two hours after the first time. Then about two hours later she was tubed 1.5 oz. After that she drank a little bit of two bottles. Not very much got down as she wasn't participating just swallowing. I got the other two to take a bottle on the second feeding. I didn't try with a bottle on the first feeding I just tubed them all since I figured it would be easier. Temp was normal about 102.

The last 16 hours or so we were just feeding her resorb with baking soda in it. The vet was giving her 20cc every two hours. I cut it down to 20cc every two hours since she just kept filling up and not going down. She was still kind of walking and would stand. Ocassionally she would mouth breath. She was never as active as the other two were.

When she was at the vets she received Banamine and Naxcel also.

 

[chooks4life]

Sorry for your loss.

If you're up to it, or know someone who is, may be worth a post mortem. Some of these issues are genetic.

Best wishes with your animals in future.