Medical Supplies on the Trail

[Nanno]

Hmm... I would think you'd want to induce vomiting before giving charcoal so that the charcoal could pick up whatever wasn't heaved up. You don't want them to barf up the charcoal! We've had to give horses charcoal after breaking into the grain bin, and of course they can't throw up. I've given charcoal to several of my goats that I found barfing already, but only one of them barfed again after I gave the charcoal. We do have some poisonous plant that grows on my property but I don't know what it is. For the last several years on almost exactly April 20th, one goat starts barfing green slime. It's never the same goat twice, so apparently they learn their lesson. I've given charcoal to all of them and all have recovered just fine. I'm not sure if they needed the charcoal, but I'm sure it helped. Whatever the poisonous plant is, I think it has a very small window of toxicity because we've never had a goat get sick outside of a single day around April 20th.