New goat kid has the runs. Update - all better

[walkswithdog]

Admittedly she's on new pasture, new feed and new everything. She also didn't look as though she'd been wormed. Her sister is fine, the two wethers are fine.

I've wormed and provided a coccidiastat but I'd like to STOP it! What next? In a dog Kaolin Pectin. I know goats can't have Immodium. What else helps???

The worming and coccidiastat worked. Last night she was much improved and this morning she is clean/dry and though a tad soft, not runny any more. I did drench her once with a remedy out of a storey goat book which she took pretty well. It's nice to see her unrunny and clean, looks like we beat it. Yay.

 

[helmstead]

Don't give her an anti-scouring med!

I'd give her some ProBios and baking soda today. If it doesn't clear up or at least improve, I'd treat for cocci starting tomorrow.

You never want to stop them up without knowing and treating the cause...constipation will kill them, too!

 

[walkswithdog]

Okay, started the coccidiastat yesterday, wormed her the day before that.

I have terramyacin pills but haven't used them.

I did read that stopping them up was bad...

I have electrolytes and Kaolin Pectin. I was going to bring her in and start administering both those.

I was hesitant to start an antibiotic without real reason.

ETA : Okay more probios today then.

 

[helmstead]

You can do the Probios daily until it's totally cleared up...and I recommend it as long as she's on the cocci prevention treatment.

Terramyacin won't treat cocci (you probably know this). It has to be a sulfa drug or amprollium.

Congrats! Hope she continues to improve!

 

[walkswithdog]

I got the terramycin in case it was something else. Didn't use it.

I'll be putting probios in their grain daily for awhile just because of all the changes.

Thanks for the help Kate. I really really wish I could begin to afford a registered nubian doeling... Not going to happen with my dental bills going into orbit.

But I am looking at a nice little La Mancha/ Nubian tomorrow. Her mother is a very nice milking La Mancha and her father a registered Nubian.

Then our little group will be done growing and they can just settle in and lay waste to kudzu.

What do you do to protect mature trees from cribbing? Fencing/wrapping? Is there some tree wrap or limb wrap for protection I could use in those I do want to keep in the goat pen?

 

[helmstead]

Cheapest solution is to wrap the trees with chicken wire several layers thick...and at least 6' high if you have full sized goats.

The only trees ours have killed eating the bark are dogwoods and very small diameter poplars...but we weren't worried about saving the trees at all. A dead tree just = good firewood kindling

 

[walkswithdog]

So far no "full sized goats" but I might as well wrap as if I did have the nubian/s I want before they get here if I'm doing it anyway.

I want to leave a few mature trees and broader smaller shade trees intact because the sun on that hill in the moring isn't kind between 10 and Noon. Fortunately the sun goes over the main forest just after 2PM and it's shaded all afternoon.

I agree most of what they kill I wanted gone any way...

I can regrow trees. It takes 12 years to kill kudzu...