What a Lousy Day...lost a goat

Sherry

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Apr 8, 2007
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Went to feed this evening and found my 6 week old doeling dead in the goat house. have no idea what happened. I'm just so sad.
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I lost a goat a few years ago to polio. She had three little babies, still nursing. It was heartbreaking. My heart goes out to you.
 
The most common cause of sudden death in goats is enterotoxemia, clostridium perfingens. It strikes suddenly and without warning. If not treated the goat will be dead in an astonishingly short time. When I had my dairy, we vaccinated the kids shortly after birth and then every three weeks until they were about three months old with CD/T. That is clostridium perfingens and tetanus. After that one shot a year should do it. It is a good idea to keep clostridium perfingens antitoxin on hand just in case a goat gets entero even though it is up on its shots.
 

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