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  1. Goat Management
    I've had this little buck in my house for a few weeks , his mom rejected him and his siblings. He has been drinking milk and eating hay. Last week I heard a weird noise,(he's kept in a bin in my bathroom when he's not out running around) and I found him basically unresponsive eyes open head...
  2. Health & Wellness
    Hello all! I need your help please. I have a sick bottle buckling, 6 wks old, who has pneumonia. I had a vet out who put him on Naxcel for 7 days. He is still exhibiting symptoms. His fever is gone but he is still coughing and congested. I call the vet for a follow-up on the 7th day and he...
  3. Goat Frenzy
    One of my baby pygmy goat buck is foaming at the mouth, shaking his head violently from side to side, unable to chew and hasn't pooped (or eaten properly) in 3 days. He is becoming lethargic but doesn't have noticeable bloat on his left, we gave him a little baking soda in mineral oil just in...
  4. Health & Wellness
    We had one of our does kid this morning without knowing and she had some twins. She rejected the one twin and we are taking care of it milking her continuously and feeding the rejected kid inside. The doe has however accepted one and he is seeming to have some very sticky, almost bright orange...
  5. Health & Wellness
    I have a 6 day old Pygmy kid. She’s the first bottle fed baby I’ve ever had. I’ve been feeding her the goat milk replacer. She was doing really good with it. About her 2nd or 3rd day I noticed her limping around favoring her left front leg. That day she had a rectal temp of 103.8. However it...
  6. Health & Wellness
    So I had a doe kid over the weekend, she was amazing and three kids. The first two came out no problem, got up quickly and started drinking, the third came out less than 5 minutes after the second and probably less than 10 mins from the first (this dam was popping kids out quick) and he came...
  7. Health & Wellness
    Hi, I am new here so just figuring out things. I have 3 goats. I am just trying to get some advice on my 10 month old Nigerian Dwarf goat. She has been foaming at her mouth for 7 days! Started on Sunday, 2/2/20. She is a little bit bloated but not that big, you can hear gas going up her throat...
  8. Health & Wellness
    Hi TGS! I haven't been able to spend as much time on here as I've wanted to, and tbh I forgot how to post a new thread. But I'm back with some baby goat news. A baby boy was born Thursday night/Friday morning, and by the time I got up to let all the goats out, I realized that the mama had given...
  9. Parasites
    I have a baby lamancha x alpine mix whose mother passed when she was around three months. Her brother was so weak and passed as well. Her eyelids are white and she doesn’t want food. We took her to the vet and they gave her shots for her appetite and found two parasites in her stool which is...
  10. Health & Wellness
    Hello I am worried about my 13 day old kid. She was recently debudded and besides a bit of liquid leakage on the left side (which we cleaned with iodine) everything seemed to be ok but now she has a 104.6 temp. She is shaking from the fever and acting in pain. Also she is due for her CDT shot...
  11. Goat Frenzy
    Hello! My name is Diane and I just joined the forum. We just acquired an eight week old fainting goat. Since we brought him home (last Saturday) he has had liquid diarrhea. At first I thought it was a change in food and we have been giving him probiotics and electrolytes and he is not...
  12. Health & Wellness
    Hello, I have a 2 1/2 week old female Nigerian Dwarf Goat (Pet/bottle baby) who has been to the vet for diarrhea, not eating, weakness and lethargy and he prescribed her meds for Coccidia and de-wormer. First he injected her with B-Complex and Thiamine just in case of Goat Polio (she had a...
  13. Beginners Goat Raising
    My kid Bambi wont eat or drink and can't use his front legs and he keeps hollering it was pretty cold last night so I have him by a heater wrapped up in my jacket is there anyone that might know what's going
  14. Health & Wellness
    Hi everyone. I am new here, so I hope I'm doing this right, but here goes... I am new to owning goats... or livestock of any kind. My husband and I were both city kids until we could finally get moved out of town to an acreage of our own in Southwest Nebraska. So I have ZERO experience raising...
  15. Health & Wellness
    hello. I’m new to this sight but in need of help. I have two Pygmy buck kids. One is 5-6 weeks old and the other we thought to be about 3 weeks now but I think he is closer to two (owners weren’t sure of age when we got them). The younger one is not doing well. He has never taken more than 2...
  16. Health & Wellness
    I have a 2.5 week bottle baby mini lamancha who I am afraid is sick. I got her at 1 week and she's been eating great. Yesterday she refused a feeding but ate her later feeding just fine so I didn't worry. This morning she refused her feeding and had a bit of foam around her mouth. She kept...
  17. Site Help, Suggestions, and Announcements
    Hi, We have some three month doelings that have leaky eyes. They do NOT have pink eye because last year we had pink eye, so we know how it looks like. They are also a bit under the weather more or less. :( Do any of you what it is and how to treat it?
  18. Goat Management
    Two baby goats where born yesterday and was perfectly fine but today they are really weak and they are pooping yellow they are having deficalt stand up and walking they also won't eat I really don't know what to do.
  19. Health & Wellness
    Hi Guys I've just joined The Goat Spot and still working my way around, but I think I've come to the right spot here to ask my question. We have an 8 week old wethered male goat kid, named Boysenberry who has Joint Ill. It all started when he was 4 weeks old when he came down with a high...
  20. Health & Wellness
    My 4 week old kid had loose stool this afternoon and the stool seems to be back to normal tonight (wouldn't say full on diarrhea). Her and her twin both seem to have large bellies not super firm but large enough to make me wonder if this is normal. They were on the mother for 2 1/2 weeks and...
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