glenolam's madness - April passed away

[savingdogs]

I sure hope she bounces back for you!

 

[ksalvagno]

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.

 

[glenolam]

Thanks

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.

 

[glenolam]

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!

 

[freemotion]

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.

 

[glenolam]

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...

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

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howzzat?

 

[glenolam]

Great as long as it spits out

quack quack 2.16 cc quack quack 1.56 cc quack quack

 

[savingdogs]

Do you know if its just white tail deer? We have mule deer, and elk, not white tails.

 

[glenolam]

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.