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08-30-2016, 08:18 PM
We took a fecal sample in today should have results tomorrow. The dewormers we use are a herbal mix made by fir meadow, we had phenomenal luck with it last year they make a herbal combination for cocci as well.
What we now think happened is that the dam was copper deficient, she died close to the birth, the farm we got him from has problems with UC as they feed their bucks and wethers grain. We wouldn't get an older buck or wether from them but figured this little guy would be fine. He was poking along till about two weeks ago which is when we went to fair, the whole family camps at the fair and the animals who stay behind just have to fend for themselves, they don't really need much. This little guy really went downhill. I found another goat all but killing him and realized he was weak and couldn't defend himself. I thought the others had chased him off the food and he got weak, so I separated him but he kept going downhill. We didn't know about copper deficiciancy in does causing problems in kids we also didn't know about it causing parasite problems. By the time we got the copper and found all this info he was pretty weak. After a copper treatment he really rallied but it didn't last. I don't have a lot of hope at the moment we are giving him milk with a drench syringe, that's all that's keeping him alive.
To many things learned to late I think.
I should have been way more proactive from day one.
What we now think happened is that the dam was copper deficient, she died close to the birth, the farm we got him from has problems with UC as they feed their bucks and wethers grain. We wouldn't get an older buck or wether from them but figured this little guy would be fine. He was poking along till about two weeks ago which is when we went to fair, the whole family camps at the fair and the animals who stay behind just have to fend for themselves, they don't really need much. This little guy really went downhill. I found another goat all but killing him and realized he was weak and couldn't defend himself. I thought the others had chased him off the food and he got weak, so I separated him but he kept going downhill. We didn't know about copper deficiciancy in does causing problems in kids we also didn't know about it causing parasite problems. By the time we got the copper and found all this info he was pretty weak. After a copper treatment he really rallied but it didn't last. I don't have a lot of hope at the moment we are giving him milk with a drench syringe, that's all that's keeping him alive.
To many things learned to late I think.
I should have been way more proactive from day one.