Bloated 10 yr old pygmy goat - She passed :(

[elevan]

Put 2 Tbsp of baking soda in enough water to liquify it and orally drench it. Do this every 4-6 hours while bloated. Firmly rub the rumen area (VERY FIRMLY) for something like 15 minutes.

 

[thebritt]

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Will do! Thanks!

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Baking Soda is used mainly to treat acidocis and PREVENT bloat.

Vegetable oil is the best way to TREAT bloat.

Give her about half a cup, and keep her up and walking while massaging her stomach until she burps.

And find a new Vet who knows something about goats

Dont feed anything but hay until she's better

http://fiascofarm.com/goats/bloat.htm

 

[PotterWatch]

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I agree with this statement, but I know how difficult that can be in some areas. When we had our goats, we were able to find one vet (an hour away), who was willing to see our goats on an emergency only basis. Even that vet said they didn't know a whole lot

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[Bear Foot Farm]

When we had our goats, we were able to find one vet (an hour away

That's why people with goats or sheep need to learn how to do it all for themselves anyway.

With severe bloat, you can't afford to wait for a Vet to show up.

Most treatments are simple once you learn what to do and how to do it, but you can't wait until it's happening to try and learn.

To the OP:

Buy one of these and it will pay for itself the first time you use it:

http://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=219

Small Flock Drencher $8.70
Used for administering dewormers and oral medicine to sheep and goats

 

[redhen]

Hows the goat??

 

[cassie]

If GasX doesn't work, you have something going on besides bloat. The first thing I would do is get some entero antitoxin ASAP. It is clostridium perfingens antitoxin and the local livestock supply or your vet may have it. For some reason, too many vets simply do not recognize entertoxemia. If it is entero, penicillin will help because it effective against clostridial organisms but you really need the antitoxin. Cal Dex injected under the skin may also help. It will cause the smooth muscles to contract, and the rumen is made up of smooth muscle. It is also possible she has a torsion.

 

[cassie]

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Vegetable oil is NOT the best way to treat bloat. GasX is. It is a lot safer, faster, and more effective than oil. With the oil it is easy to get some in the lungs and if you do that you will cure the bloat but kill the goat. A fellow dairyman told me about GasX and after I tried it I made sure I always had some in the barn as long as I had goats. Entero antitoxin and Gas X are two things a goat owner should ALWAYS have on hand. Always.

 

[cassie]

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I live in the central valley of California. There are a lot of commercial goat dairies here. In fact I had one myself for many years. Not a large one, I only milked about 100 head, but a dairy nevertheless. The dairy goats in this area are fed almost exclusively alfalfa hay. Bloat is a rarity. I had the most trouble with bloat if they got out and gorged on lush green feed. As for horses, mine have always been fed alfalfa as are most of the horses around here. My current horse is 23 which is very old for a Percheron, and my saddle mare was almost 35 when she died. Neither of them were ever sick a day in their lives. The alfalfa sure didn't hurt them any.

 

[arabianequine]

This one is a bit cheaper. Maybe look at your local feed store too for one.

http://www.jefferslivestock.com/product.asp?pn=JI-FA&camid=LIV

@ cassie

What is entero antitoxin suppose to treat in goats?