Dying baby goat please help

[RoosterML]

@RoosterML
Maybe you can help too?

Wish I could, I have no experience that would allow me to possibly help. Looking forward to hearing what the vet says. May want to find another vet if they can’t come out right away if you told them the same thing you told us. Good luck!!

 

[chickens really]

Wish I could, I have no experience that would allow me to possibly help. Looking forward to hearing what the vet says. May want to find another vet if they can’t come out right away if you told them the same thing you told us. Good luck!!

Thanks for replying. I thought maybe you would be able to help too? Hopefully this gets figured out by the Vet..

 

[cassie]

Gets week hunched up back it moans then will tip on its side and kinda flop with it kicking its legs and the the eyes start to go off in space

Sounds a lot like polio. If the vet can't come out maybe you can go to the clinic and ask for thiamine. Describe these symptoms. The sooner treatment is started, the better chance for a favorable outcome. One thing about thiamine is that it can't cause harm.

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Do any of the signs match how your kids are acting?

 

[Minnow_88]

Ok update we have one in at the vet right now I had another one go down so I to a vitamin e pill got the gell out of it and smashed up a selenium pill tube fed it to this one that almost was dead and 1 hour later it was standing on all 4 legs ears perked up and wagging its tail I think it's a major deficiency I'll keep you updated

 

[Minnow_88]

Well back from the vet the goat ended up dying he did an autopsy and the Goat was perfectly normal it wasn't overeating or white muscle disease can't figure it out he found just a tiny bit of bacteria in the intestine not enough to harm to goat

 

[21hens-incharge]

What did they say about polio?

 

[Minnow_88]

According to him everything was good so I'm not sure I think I might have to get a second opinion if I have another go down

 

[cassie]

A goat that dies of entero has purple striations on the intestines. I haven't heard of signs of polio that can be seen at autopsy. I am not saying there aren't but at any rate my vet never mentioned any to me. With suspected polio, your best bet is to treat it. If it improves after a few doses of thiamine, you know that is the problem. If it doesn't, polio probably isn't what is wrong, but in any event the thiamine will not have made the animal worse. From personal experience I can tell you that a lot of vets don't recognize either entero or polio in goats. Nothing against them, but their training in vet school about goats is usually sketchy at best.

If I were you, I would give every kid a dose of BoSe for white muscle and a shot of CD/T as soon as you get them home. Both are cheap insurance.

 

[lomine]

We feed kid milk replacer to the younger ones and hay to the older ones with a little grain. The younger ones get fed twice a day and their not bloated

I'm not sure if it's related but a 2 week old needs to eat more than twice a day. More like every 5 hours but they can go 8 hours during the night.