Aboutgoatlady Expertise Specializing in New Goat Owner understanding of goat physiology, goat anatomy, goat care and herd management. *I am not a veterinarian, any advice and information should be verified by your veterinarian before administering to your goats.
Experience 17 years experience of raising goats and herd management. Active hands on experience with goat herd and research with various Caprine University Research and Extension Centers nationwide. 15 years dedicated to helping other goat breeders/owners with goat anatomy, goat disease and goat health care issues via phone, published goat care articles and internet interaction.
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Expert: goatlady Date: 7/11/2008 Subject: Nubian billy
Question QUESTION: Hello I live in hawaii and have 5 month old nubian kid billy who has not been looking very good for the past 2 weeks. We have dewormed him with the positive pellets and also ivormectin paste and just took a sample of his stool to the vet and got a negative test result. I also noticed that his stool is very runny but he is still eating and drinking okay. He also seems very bloated and glands on his neck is very swollen. Please do you have any suggestions on what I can do I really don't want to lose him he belongs to my 2year old son.
ANSWER: HI Wendy,
Get some Ivomec Plus injectable dewormer and inject it subQ 1cc/40lbs and again in 10 days and again in another 10 days. The swollen neck sounds like bottle jaw from anemia. Positive pellets really do not work well and the paste is really for horses, the injectable works much better. I have an article on my website about deworming this way and why-
go to my site http://Goat-Link.com
Look at the goat parasite menu for the article called deworming info- the top one in that menu - also have photos of bottle jaw and a chart to check eye color.
Let em know if this looks like what he has with his neck
goatlady
Goat-Link.com
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QUESTION: Hello goatlady, Yes I have seen the pictures and that is exactly what his neck looks like. Also it seems to get worse towards the end of the day. Wendy
Answer HI Wendy,
Bottle jaw often does fluctuate- it seems to go away in the middle of the day only to appear again after eating in the evening, it is caused by being anemic- usually from worms or coccidiosis
I would start him on the ivomec plus injections like I said in the article- and start also cocci treatment.
Cocci Treatment:
I use Sulmet liquid drinking water solution or DiMethox drinking water solution but I use it right from the bottle, undiluted. Dosage is 6TBSP for a 100lb goat orally the first day and half that (3TBSP/100lbs) for the next 4 days - 1TBSP is 15ccs
You need to give him hay and green leaves to eat no grain, give apples, bananas, melon tree leaves like elm or maple or some oak if you have them and hay- electrolytes and some sort of sugar in the water- karo syrup molasses, pancake syrup if you have nothing else for his energy. If you have red cell or goat nutridrench give him that daily to build him back up. Get a good mineral mix, loose minerals and let him have as much as he wants. Get them with copper in them and try to get as close to calcium phosphorus ratio of 2.5:1 as possible- cattle minerals are better than nothing.
Have you looked at his inner eyelid membranes to see color? White or light inner eyelid color is anemia- they should be pink or salmon colored, the darker the better.
