glenolam's madness - April passed away

Good luck. I hope she gets better quick for you.

Make sure you inject the Ivomec. Meningeal has a 60 day incubation period so just keep an eye on the rest of your herd. At the slightest weakness in their back ends, just start treating.
 
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Yes, k, the vet said to inject the ivomec...sorry, forgot to write that part in.

What a bummer it's been at my place with these durn goats the past few months!

I wanted to cut back on grain as I usually do during the summer months since no one is bred or lactacting (with the exception of Fudgie, of course) but with all this crap I feel like I need to keep everyone in the greatest condition I can for the fall!

Poor girl just looks sad, too. Literally not in pain at all...just hunched up as if she's trying to pass a big turd and drags her gangly legs behind her...well...not literally, she can walk but she drags her hooves across the ground and doesn't pick them up to walk.

I sure hope she pulls through.
 
Who would ever guess that I have a degree in accounting? Not me, that's for sure.

I go and give April her 20ccs of Safeguard, which she so unhappily took and then went and filled syringes of ivomec for the other girls.

Here's where math comes in...

1cc / 75#

So I've got 100# x2, 160# x2, 125#, 115# and 65# of goats running around and I'm sitting in the milk barn with my paper and pen trying to determine how much ivomec each girl gets.

I think I'm on a roll when I'm pulling up the last syringe for the 115# girl and realize I need 1.53cc, which is what I also gave to the 125# gal. And then I realize I only pulled 1.6ccs up for the 160# gals when I really need 2.13....

sigh....

I guess math just isn't my strong point anymore

I know I've underdosed some girls, but forget it. I'm not going to pin them with more crap today. I'll just keep an eye out on everyone.

Here's two videos - one of April walking. You can see her back right leg is sorta wobbly and she's favoring it along with the hunched back. The second video is a clip of the rest of the girls for condition comparison. Please excuse the poop soup...it's been raining for a week off and on and it's wicked hard to clean up mud as I'm sure you all know!



 
Wow, just caught up here. Sorry about April, hope she does ok. I didn't know we had such a problem with this here! Is it just deer? I think I might be ok since they don't come into my pasture....right? Yikes. You must be on edge watching everyone else.
 
Pretty much where ever there's white tail deer there's deer worm (meningeal). It might not really matter if they come into your pasture/yard or not, the slugs and snails crawl their way onto your property with the eggs attached.

It's the first time I've had to deal with this, and I could very well be wrong in my diagnosis but I'm at a loss with what else could be her problem.

There's 2 ways to deal with it if you suspect deer in your area 1 - do nothing and wait and see...most of the time your goats don't catch the bug; 2 - treat everyone with the injected ivomec as a preventative nature. I'm not sure what I'll do next year...I guess it depends on how April turns out...
 
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Do you know if its just white tail deer? We have mule deer, and elk, not white tails.
 
Well, from what I know (which isn't much apparantly :/ ) it's just white tail deer. But as we know with Lyme disease, it could very well adapt to other types of deer at some point in time.

I would doubt you have it in your area because it's more known on my side of the US, but it's possible. I guess knowing the signs is a good thing and just go from there.
 
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