Mystery-Virus/Rickettsial Infection/Deficiencies?

[Nanno]

I love the portrait of Yukon on the barn wall. It's very inspiring. I'm so glad your other goats responded to the Oxy-tet and are on the mend. I hope they recover and never look back. It was a scary ordeal. Frustrating to say the least because of the lack of answers, but at least you didn't lose them all to a mystery illness. My dog had something similar happen two years ago where she had unexplained lameness that kept changing from leg to leg. We did x-rays, scans, bloodwork, etc. and nothing gave us any answers. We treated her with several different antibiotics, and for a while she got so bad she could hardly walk. She would drag her hind legs pitifully behind her, or a few days later she wouldn't put weight on a front leg. It seemed like symptoms of a tick-borne disease but we never found one. We thought we would have to put her down so we got another dog, but slowly she began to recover. Now you'd never know she was sick except for a slight stiffness of gait, and she's slower than she was before the illness. It will always be puzzling, but we're very thankful she pulled through because she's a very good and loyal livestock guardian and those can be hard to find.