How To Handle Vet Issues: Common Ways Babies Die & Medicines Used

3 Common Ways Babies Die and Medicines Used

There are not enough vets to treat goats who actually know a lot. Build a trusting relationship with your vet to get medicines.

#1 Diarrhea

• Aka Poopy pants: after 5 days can die
• Day 1 Observe
• Day 2 Give Pepto Bismo or Probios: Sooths
• Day 3 and 4 Asess Make sure it is not stress or something they ate. Treat with SMZ aka Sulfa (get medicine from horse owners and vets) Take a 800 mg and break it in half. If not drinking or eating give as a drench. If eating like normal mix in their milk. 1 time a day for 5 days.
• Note at Days 3 and 4 Ecoli or coccidiosis could set on
• Day 5 Antibiotics full treatment
• Day 6 Too late for a poop sample they could die
• CAUTION: once they stop eating: dehydration, low electrolytes, nutrition, physical strength, and diarrhea will occur
• DO NOT give Pepto Bismo over and over can cause constipation
• If constipation occurs inject in butt caster oil, give it 15 minutes to work

#2 Goat Polio

• Stress, illness, transporting, or hay causes
• Day 1 other goats are bouncy but they stay back, glassy-eyed, confused, bleat differently, and lethargic
• Treat with Vitamin B complex or cattle injectable vitamin B complex
• Give early
• Day 2 drunkenness, neurological, fall over, mini seizures, one day away from blindness
• Day 3 Blindness
• Day 4 and 5 Brain damage
• Day 5 and 6 Die
• Happens in early life and end of life

#3 Pneumonia

• Listen for a wet cough
• Almost always pneumonia is not present
• Listen for baby aspirating, chewing cud
• Snotty nose early symptom
• Check their temperature in the rectum
• Normal temperatures 101-103
• Depending on the outside environment adjust their temperature
• Safer to treat
• Medicine to give
• Cheap easily available LA200 and LA300: burns, 70% effective, need #18 needle, give 3 times in 6 days
•  Prefer Nuflor: burns some, give 2 times
• Also Nuflor Gold: preventative of Movi
• Draxxin: expensive, 1 shot wonder, lasts 7 days
• Build a relationship with your vet to get medications
• Team up with a neighbor and share with friends