Feathered_Texans
Songster
I am pretty new to raising goats and I recently ended up with 3 baby goats on Wednesday. They were all doing good until yesterday I noticed the male was not really using his back right leg. I thought he might just need some time and it would heal. It got worse and to day he doesn’t really use either back leg. After favoring the right one his back left hock got a little swollen.
so I did some research and I thought it was weakness in his back legs like other baby goats have been known to get. I saw that selenium can help speed the process of them going back to normal so I gave him some today about 4:00 pm.I was hoping that would work but I don’t know how long it takes to kick in. Every time I feed him I help him stand to use the bathroom and eat and the last time he did I noticed a little drop of blood in his bowel movement and he was straining a little bit. He gets tired easier as well and his breathing occasionally rattles.
I have been feeding the kid milk replacer by the manna pro. Do I need to be feeding something else?
The other 2 kids are still acting normal and playing around fine.
I know I am probably doing lots of things wrong but I am trying to learn quickly. If anybody can help it would be greatly appreciated!
so I did some research and I thought it was weakness in his back legs like other baby goats have been known to get. I saw that selenium can help speed the process of them going back to normal so I gave him some today about 4:00 pm.I was hoping that would work but I don’t know how long it takes to kick in. Every time I feed him I help him stand to use the bathroom and eat and the last time he did I noticed a little drop of blood in his bowel movement and he was straining a little bit. He gets tired easier as well and his breathing occasionally rattles.
I have been feeding the kid milk replacer by the manna pro. Do I need to be feeding something else?
The other 2 kids are still acting normal and playing around fine.
I know I am probably doing lots of things wrong but I am trying to learn quickly. If anybody can help it would be greatly appreciated!