- Sep 15, 2016
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Hello I’m new to goats it’s been two months and I’ve already dealt with lice but now I have a much bigger problem. I’m awful with plant indentifying hut apparently we have a rhododendron and my goats free range mainly eating briars all day but the one guy must’ve eaten something he shouldn’t have possibly the rhododendron (which I’m in middle of getting rid of cause I hate it anyway). I just got back from a vet after taking George when I came out this morning to greenish brown throw up everywhere in barn and he was staggering walking. The vet gave him IV fluid and antibiotic. He’s so much better now pooping normal his temp wasn’t too bad the vet said and he’s had normal poo the whole time. He just ate grass hay and drank water. I’m just now starting to google and get crazy seeing videos of goats dying the next day or even two days later. I’m trying to do anything I can to help keep him alive is there any more things that people found effective. I’m seeing an overwhelming amount of remedies and quite frankly I’m not pin pointing one and afraid to try most such one being beer. Most are remedies like charcoal which isn’t helpful at this point since it’s going on 24 hours since he ate something wrong. Any advice would be appreciated. I hope owning goats gets easier