I have a problem. Here is the whole story.
I have two goats, a 7 month old Nigerian Doe, and a 19 week old Saanen Doe.
Yesterday morning I went to turn out my goats. They had spent the night in the large chicken coop (a shed for all intensive purposes with shavings a roost and a nextbox) because we have serious storming and their house isn't completely finished yet and thus not that weather proff.
So they spent the night with 4 older hens, no biggie.
In the morning as I'm walking to the coop, I don't hear anything, which is ODD because my Nigi has a mouth on her and calls for me all the time.
I open the door and out bounds my Saanen like normal but my Nigi is hanging back. I notice she's shivering. She comes out of the shed and she looks like she's already had her morning grain and half a hay net, she's what I considered bloated, but not horrible and it's all evenly placed, not more distended on the left side like I've read.
She goes over to the water trough and takes several deep long drinks (In hindsight, I think I read somewhere not to let them do this and I stopped her). She bypassed her grain completely which was set out for breakfast and this goat LOVES her grain.
I immeadiately get a thermometer and take her temp from the shivering, it was 102.1, no fever.
I drench with Vegtable Oil per Fias Co Farms site. I massage her sides and we walk, for over an hour in circles, stopping to massage. I wait, she poops a couple of times and farts. Lots of teeth grinding. After awhile she looks alot less "bloated" and her spirits pick up some.
She urinates. At this point I put her by herself inside the goat run with her buddy, just not running around yet.
I leave a very small amount of water in the bucket and Baking Soda in a seperate one.
I go and call my vet. She is swamped yesterday and cannot come out until Monday. I explain everything to her and she says it sounds like I got her over the hump and to just watch her closely. I do.
Last night she was fine all night, I got up several times to check on her.
This morning I go out and check on her and she greets me with her usually bleating, but she has no interest whatsoever in eating either grain or hay and she is still teeth grinding now and then. Other than that she looks completely normal, she is not bloated in the slightest bit and looks like a normal goat who has gone all night with no hay or food, slightly deflated for lack of a better word.
Is it normal for a goat to go off her feed after bloating?
I have never dealt with any goat problems before, I am new to goats. Is there anything else I should be doing?
I am scared to death here that she is going to drop dead on me out of no where.
Oh and do goats yawn?! Because I just saw her do something like a yawn, really widelt opened her mouth and no sound came out...
I have two goats, a 7 month old Nigerian Doe, and a 19 week old Saanen Doe.
Yesterday morning I went to turn out my goats. They had spent the night in the large chicken coop (a shed for all intensive purposes with shavings a roost and a nextbox) because we have serious storming and their house isn't completely finished yet and thus not that weather proff.
So they spent the night with 4 older hens, no biggie.
In the morning as I'm walking to the coop, I don't hear anything, which is ODD because my Nigi has a mouth on her and calls for me all the time.
I open the door and out bounds my Saanen like normal but my Nigi is hanging back. I notice she's shivering. She comes out of the shed and she looks like she's already had her morning grain and half a hay net, she's what I considered bloated, but not horrible and it's all evenly placed, not more distended on the left side like I've read.
She goes over to the water trough and takes several deep long drinks (In hindsight, I think I read somewhere not to let them do this and I stopped her). She bypassed her grain completely which was set out for breakfast and this goat LOVES her grain.
I immeadiately get a thermometer and take her temp from the shivering, it was 102.1, no fever.
I drench with Vegtable Oil per Fias Co Farms site. I massage her sides and we walk, for over an hour in circles, stopping to massage. I wait, she poops a couple of times and farts. Lots of teeth grinding. After awhile she looks alot less "bloated" and her spirits pick up some.
She urinates. At this point I put her by herself inside the goat run with her buddy, just not running around yet.
I leave a very small amount of water in the bucket and Baking Soda in a seperate one.
I go and call my vet. She is swamped yesterday and cannot come out until Monday. I explain everything to her and she says it sounds like I got her over the hump and to just watch her closely. I do.
Last night she was fine all night, I got up several times to check on her.
This morning I go out and check on her and she greets me with her usually bleating, but she has no interest whatsoever in eating either grain or hay and she is still teeth grinding now and then. Other than that she looks completely normal, she is not bloated in the slightest bit and looks like a normal goat who has gone all night with no hay or food, slightly deflated for lack of a better word.
Is it normal for a goat to go off her feed after bloating?
I have never dealt with any goat problems before, I am new to goats. Is there anything else I should be doing?
I am scared to death here that she is going to drop dead on me out of no where.
Oh and do goats yawn?! Because I just saw her do something like a yawn, really widelt opened her mouth and no sound came out...
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