I have posted on here some time ago but really got no help at all so thought I would use this approach.
My goat has been tested positive for EOSINOPHILIC PUSTULAR DERMATITIS. Which is EXTREMELY RARE. It appears no one knows how to treat it or prevent it. DO NO get confused with follistitis as they are two serperate problems. There are no documented cased in the US but that does not mean that it has not occured.
Well today I have discovered that it is contagious as for to humans I am not sure will let you know if I loose all my hair.
I have a wether who has not been in physical contact with her. He is becoming quite bare on his back and neck. There are NO SORES just pick skin which become hard as a rock if not treated with TMG used on horses. For the last year we have tried so many treatment for inside of her as well as the outside of her. She is not in pain nor does she itch.
Thank you for considering this I will send photos if you wish.
Donna
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Hello, All of the above as I am so concerned for my pets. It is obviously contagious as one other goat has lost it's hair. I am also considering quarantining all my animals and not allow others come to the farm. I am not sure what else to do .
Thank you.......
Donna
Marin Waddell said:
I've never heard of it, but since there are no documented cases, that's really not surprising that I haven't heard of it before. I personally have the distinction :-) of having the only documented case ever of a goat with Tyzzer's disease, which is a rodent disease -- yeah, it's a disease of mice, rats, rabbits. One of our goats died from that five years ago. So, the only reason I'm mentioning this is because I came to the conclusion that the only way an animal is going to succumb to a disease that is not even supposed to exist in their species is if they have something terribly wrong with their whole system. In other words, they are just not healthy. Thankfully, that is the goat that I insisted have a liver biopsy to check her copper level. The vet said I was wasting my money. Well, she turned out to be severely copper deficient. I'm not saying that your goat is necessarily copper deficient, but perhaps she has some type of deficiency that has caused her to succumb to such an odd illness. Zinc deficiency can cause problems with skin and hair, so that would probably be the first thing I'd look at. I've heard of people simply giving their goat a human zinc capsule daily if they had skin and hair issues. But really any type of nutritional deficiency is just going to cause an animal to be less resistant to whatever happens to come their way -- such as my goat getting Tyzzer's disease, which is a bacterial infection normally only seen in rodents with the odd case here and there in horses.
Hi Donna,
I don't know anything about this skin condition at all. Are you looking to find someone who knows about it specifically, or, because it is so rare that possibly others on her won't know either, are you looking for general information on how people have dealt with other skin conditions in their goats that you might be able to apply to your situation?