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Noticed this morning one of the 10wk old doelings was hunched up trying to pee and only a thimbleful came out. Otherwise she seemed fine and fairly active. Though no one is lively in the barn today (rainy day stuck inside) She and her sister are new (got them Monday) so are separated from the rest of the herd and they don't seem to be drinking much. Though they are tiny wee little ND's and I have no idea what is enough. They are so wee!
Sister is peeing like a champ every time I turn around. So it's not both that aren't doing well.
-Temp is 101.2 on the sickly one
-pooping berries
-Fecal is light on tapes but very little coccidia
-Started worming for tapes today (our Angoras had tapes again) and since we just had a recent outbreak of Coccidia (last week one of the other does in the other barn had scours and was high in Cocci eggs) and it's wet wet wet. I am going to dose all with preventative dimethox.
-Doeling is not dehydrated, no loose skin and when you pinch what you can, it springs back.
-doesn't seem bloated, seems a little less puffy than usual actually
-She's eating hay and I brought in some maple leaves which she happily ran over to eat.
-Gave the tiny sisters some electrolytes and they didn't touch it. I've never had that happen before. But I syringed some for the sickly doeling and she suckled right onto the syringe. She happily took it and asked for more before she turned away and was done. she got about 15cc
My first thought was dehydration and that she's not getting enough water but I'll give her more electrolytes in a couple of hours.
Then I thought worms but the load isn't high on anything and her eyes are perfectly bright pink.
My next thought was UTI but she has no fever, and she seems like maybe that's a little low. The electro was warm so hopefully that helped. It was really hot/humid the past 2-3 days and today it's cold in comparison and rainy. The sisters have a large plastic dog crate to sleep in. We cleaned that out good and bedded it with new hay which they immediately went into to sort out how they want it and see if there were any tasty bits they didn't want to lay on.
What else should I do?
Sister is peeing like a champ every time I turn around. So it's not both that aren't doing well.
-Temp is 101.2 on the sickly one
-pooping berries
-Fecal is light on tapes but very little coccidia
-Started worming for tapes today (our Angoras had tapes again) and since we just had a recent outbreak of Coccidia (last week one of the other does in the other barn had scours and was high in Cocci eggs) and it's wet wet wet. I am going to dose all with preventative dimethox.
-Doeling is not dehydrated, no loose skin and when you pinch what you can, it springs back.
-doesn't seem bloated, seems a little less puffy than usual actually
-She's eating hay and I brought in some maple leaves which she happily ran over to eat.
-Gave the tiny sisters some electrolytes and they didn't touch it. I've never had that happen before. But I syringed some for the sickly doeling and she suckled right onto the syringe. She happily took it and asked for more before she turned away and was done. she got about 15cc
My first thought was dehydration and that she's not getting enough water but I'll give her more electrolytes in a couple of hours.
Then I thought worms but the load isn't high on anything and her eyes are perfectly bright pink.
My next thought was UTI but she has no fever, and she seems like maybe that's a little low. The electro was warm so hopefully that helped. It was really hot/humid the past 2-3 days and today it's cold in comparison and rainy. The sisters have a large plastic dog crate to sleep in. We cleaned that out good and bedded it with new hay which they immediately went into to sort out how they want it and see if there were any tasty bits they didn't want to lay on.
What else should I do?
I have read others do the 1 cc per 100# as well...what I figured is Goat metabolism is so fast the 1 per 20# seemed to be sensable to me...cows are much slower to metabolize then goats ...
