Went out to feed my bottle babies and couldn't find Mischif. When I did I noticed immediately that his eye was all gunky. My 2 bottle babies have been coughing and having gunky noses so I just figured Mischief had a bit of that. I cleaned it off and was horrified to find that his eye was a funny color. Is it pink eye? I've never seen anything like this. It seems to have a thicker white/blueish part in the middle. For the record, his eyes are brown! Any input would be much appreciated!!
i know that i was explaining that it's not always pink eye. depending on severity or coloration that's all. i never said don't treat it or not to worry about it ?
Just FYI, eye gunk is not the same as pink eye. The give away for pink eye from the original post, is the white/blue discoloration of the eye itself. Because of the injury prior to the pink eye, it's most likely not going to spread to the rest of the herd. HOWEVER... pink eye can be highly contagious in goats just as it is in humans, and there are simple treatments for it. Not treating it *can* result in blindness and permanent damage according to some of the writings I've read, so I'm very uncomfortable with "not worrying about it"... especially since what the original poster described is definitely NOT just gunk in the eye. Also, with the injury, there is risk of secondary infection. Just letting it go is risky at best.
i had my female pygmy was about 2 weeks old and 1 day woke up with eye crusted over bad. i put a warm washcloth over her eye and after about 30-45 seconds it washed right off.
then 2 days later my male pygmy woke up same thing . i treated him the same way.
now today they're 7 weeks old and haven't had a crusty eye other than normal (what we call sleep in the eye). so i wouldn't really worry about it, unless it happens a few more times. ya know just like our own children. except my goats listen
I used Vetericyn Opthomolic gel on a goat that got pink eye from an injury, and it cleared it up within a couple days! Affordable, and I still have a lot of the bottle left!
Ok, I may try some medicinal honey in his eye and see if that helps.
With the stuffy noses and coughing, it's really only my bottle babies that are. Everyone else is fine. Not sure if its just bothering them or if something else is going on.
Yep, that's pinkeye. Since it is only one eye, it probably happened because he got poked in the eye, and it got infected from that. Typically pinkeye is spread by flies going from manure piles to goat's eyes, and you wind up with a whole herd of infected goats.
There is a lot of debate about whether using meds helps or not. It seems to take 10 days to 2 weeks to go away regardless of what you do. Some people just squirt injectable oxytetracycline in there, so if you have any LA-200 or Biomycin, you'd draw up a little in a syringe, remove the needle, and squirt it in there. They also sell a medicated powder for pinkeye, which I used once, but I felt absolutely horrible squirted that stuff into the goat's eye.
If your kids are coughing and have nasal drainage, it could be that there is a lot of dust in your hay or something, and that's causing the problems.
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Thank you for the clarification. :) Especially for people coming into the group later, and reading through.
i know that i was explaining that it's not always pink eye. depending on severity or coloration that's all. i never said don't treat it or not to worry about it ?
Just FYI, eye gunk is not the same as pink eye. The give away for pink eye from the original post, is the white/blue discoloration of the eye itself. Because of the injury prior to the pink eye, it's most likely not going to spread to the rest of the herd. HOWEVER... pink eye can be highly contagious in goats just as it is in humans, and there are simple treatments for it. Not treating it *can* result in blindness and permanent damage according to some of the writings I've read, so I'm very uncomfortable with "not worrying about it"... especially since what the original poster described is definitely NOT just gunk in the eye. Also, with the injury, there is risk of secondary infection. Just letting it go is risky at best.
i had my female pygmy was about 2 weeks old and 1 day woke up with eye crusted over bad. i put a warm washcloth over her eye and after about 30-45 seconds it washed right off.
then 2 days later my male pygmy woke up same thing . i treated him the same way.
now today they're 7 weeks old and haven't had a crusty eye other than normal (what we call sleep in the eye). so i wouldn't really worry about it, unless it happens a few more times. ya know just like our own children. except my goats listen
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I absolutely love Vetericyn Opthalmic Gel. It's so easy to use in that it is thicker than the spray, and it sure does clear things up quickly.
I used Vetericyn Opthomolic gel on a goat that got pink eye from an injury, and it cleared it up within a couple days! Affordable, and I still have a lot of the bottle left!
With the stuffy noses and coughing, it's really only my bottle babies that are. Everyone else is fine. Not sure if its just bothering them or if something else is going on.
Yep, that's pinkeye. Since it is only one eye, it probably happened because he got poked in the eye, and it got infected from that. Typically pinkeye is spread by flies going from manure piles to goat's eyes, and you wind up with a whole herd of infected goats.
There is a lot of debate about whether using meds helps or not. It seems to take 10 days to 2 weeks to go away regardless of what you do. Some people just squirt injectable oxytetracycline in there, so if you have any LA-200 or Biomycin, you'd draw up a little in a syringe, remove the needle, and squirt it in there. They also sell a medicated powder for pinkeye, which I used once, but I felt absolutely horrible squirted that stuff into the goat's eye.
If your kids are coughing and have nasal drainage, it could be that there is a lot of dust in your hay or something, and that's causing the problems.
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