Health (986)

Hair Loss

I know I remember reading this somewhere, but I couldn't find it.  One of my does now has bald patches on her body.  The skin that is showing looks good.  This is the same doe that had flaky skin and a rough coat which the  rest of her still looks li

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Urinary Calculi

I believe my male goat may have some type of urinary problem.  I have cut down on grain recently as I was advised that I was overfeeding the male goats.  I noticed that today my four month old buck seem to be straining a bit to urinate.  He also crie

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Eyes

 

We are having problems with one of our bucklings eyes.  It has quickly turned from slight red to blue covered.  We have used tobramycin, but doesn't seem to be working very quickly.  I am not sure how to determine if it is ulcerated? We have an app

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De-lice - parasites

I was wondering if any one uses Python insecticide dust, Co-Ral or Diatomaceous Earth as a parasite control and which one is the best and how often should you use it?  Also is the Diatomaceous Earth the same as the one used in pools (white power)?

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Diarrhea

I have a buck that started with diarrhea today.  I was wondering if a change in weather could cause a almost 3 month old to start with diarrhea.  The temperature went from being in the 50's to being 75 degrees today.  I am also weaning him from the b

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Mites/Mange Question

I have some pictures on my page of my goats ears and nose, but I thought at first it was copper deficiency.  However, upon closer inspection yesterday, I saw clumps of eggs near the base of the ears on several of the goats.  From the research I did y

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Need some advice!

Our goats arrived on Wednesday a 7month old weather and an 8 week old doe.

The weather had to be dis-budded twice by the vet as they had not done it correctly the first time  We have just checked on the goats this evening and the horn has know lifted

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Post enterotoxemia

So my family and I went on vacation several weeks ago and my mom, who lives on a ranch several hours away, watched them for me. We have done this before and the goats graze happily on pasture that is much better than mine. Several days before I came

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antibiotic diarrhea?

Hello all! I' m new to goats and have recently bought two 7 week old kids. My dos started having runny eyes and nose with yellow and light green mucus, so we went to the vet. He gave them both a shot and some oral antibiotics, ammoxicilin I think. We

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my baby sick????

ok lets start at the beginning about a month ago I moved her mom and her to the barn, two weeks ago she started with diarrhea and hasn't stopped it is normal light brown no blood. She also just started her first heat. she had bova sera at the beginni

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Ears

Hello I haven't done an introduction quite yet but I have a problem first.

This is our first venture with goats. (Well livestock in general for me) We have a 6 week old doeling and an almost 4 week old doeling. The older of the two has small pieces o

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