I'm glad she made it! Hypocalcemia can be scary, especially if you can't get a vet out. You can buy the supplies from an online goat supply company like Hoegger's and learn how to do the IV yourself if you feel comfortable with medical procedures like that. I feel like it's good to have that sort of thing on hand and be able to use it in case of an emergency where you don't have long to get a treatment done. I also like to supplement my does' calcium in late pregnancy, I just give them each one of the calcium pills meant for humans with their feed, or hidden inside a banana, each day.
I know how you feel about just sticking with houseplants. This year we have lost so many things, I'm not sure I'm even qualified to keep houseplants! We had four aborted baby goats, one set of twin goats born premature and one died (the other made it through with a lot of extra love and praying!), we have probably lost 30 chickens, thrown away close to a hundred eggs in incubation that did not make it, lost five turkey poults and I have one more in the office probably going to die in the next day or two, the horse fell over dead in our driveway while I was on hold with the vet's office on the phone...I'm getting sick of burying animals. I hope we're done with that for a while!
CL is pretty common in older dairy goats, especially ones on commercial dairy farms where they are kept in crowded conditions. We've got one right now that might have it, even though she tested negative. It can be taken care of with proper management, and they still have a good shot at living a comfortable life. It just depends on if they have internal abscesses and how many/where they are. The external ones are pretty easy to keep under control if you can open them up and drain them out and keep those older girls separated from the negative does, especially while they have open abscesses.
I know how you feel about just sticking with houseplants. This year we have lost so many things, I'm not sure I'm even qualified to keep houseplants! We had four aborted baby goats, one set of twin goats born premature and one died (the other made it through with a lot of extra love and praying!), we have probably lost 30 chickens, thrown away close to a hundred eggs in incubation that did not make it, lost five turkey poults and I have one more in the office probably going to die in the next day or two, the horse fell over dead in our driveway while I was on hold with the vet's office on the phone...I'm getting sick of burying animals. I hope we're done with that for a while!
CL is pretty common in older dairy goats, especially ones on commercial dairy farms where they are kept in crowded conditions. We've got one right now that might have it, even though she tested negative. It can be taken care of with proper management, and they still have a good shot at living a comfortable life. It just depends on if they have internal abscesses and how many/where they are. The external ones are pretty easy to keep under control if you can open them up and drain them out and keep those older girls separated from the negative does, especially while they have open abscesses.
