HELLO ALL!!!
I PUT MY 9 MONTH OLD BUCK IN WITH ONE OF MY DOES THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY. EVERYTHING SEEMED JUST FINE. YESTERDAY, HE WAS LIMPING A LITTLE BIT, SO IF FIGURED THEY GOT INTO IT SINCE THEY HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE. BUT HIS APPETITE WAS GOOD AND ALL...AND IN THE EVENING, THEY WERE CUDDLING.
THIS MORNING, I GO TO FEED....GO TO THE PENS, AND HE'S PLAYING DEAD. I RAN UP TO HIM, PETTED HIM, AND CALLED OUT...BUT HE JUST LAYED THERE LOOKING AT ME. I PICKED HIM UP AND SET HIM ON HIS FEET...HE COLLAPSED. I PICKED HIM UP BY THE HORNS AND TRIED TO WALK WITH HIM...HE DID, BUT BARELY TOUCHING THE GROUND WITH HIS FRONT FEET. I PICKED UP THE SORE LEG FROM YESTERDAY HOPING THAT HE WOULD PUT WEIGHT ON HIS GOOD ONE....BUT IT JUST BUCKLED UNDERNEITH HIM AND HE COLLAPSED AGAIN. I FELT EVERY INCH OF HIM...AND HE SEEMS TO BE OK. SO I'M LOST! HIS SHEATH WAS VERY DIRTY, SO I CLEANED THAT OUT.. LET HIM SIT AGAINS THE WALL, BROUGHT HIM SOME PELLETS...ATE THEM FINE....A LITTLE SLOW, BUT HE ATE THEM. BROUGHT HIM SOME WATER IN A LITTLE BOWL...DRANK THAT RIGHT UP. SO I FILLED UP ANOTHER BIGGER ONE AND SET IT RIGHT NEXT TO HIM. CHECKED HIS TEMP.... 104.8 WHICH IS A LITTLE HIGH. DO I PUT HIM ON ANTIBIOTICS? COULD THESE BE SIGNS OF PARASITES?? EVERYONE GETS WORMED ONCE A MONTH. SHOULD I RE-WORM HIM? ANY SUGGESTIONS? IS HE GOING NEUROLOGIC ON ME? HIS HOOFS ARE OK TOO...THEY NEED TO BE TRIMMED, YES, BUT I JUST DONT' SEE WHAT COULD BE CAUSING HIM PAIN NOT TO PUT HIS HOOFS DOWN.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
NELLA
I PUT MY 9 MONTH OLD BUCK IN WITH ONE OF MY DOES THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY. EVERYTHING SEEMED JUST FINE. YESTERDAY, HE WAS LIMPING A LITTLE BIT, SO IF FIGURED THEY GOT INTO IT SINCE THEY HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE. BUT HIS APPETITE WAS GOOD AND ALL...AND IN THE EVENING, THEY WERE CUDDLING.
THIS MORNING, I GO TO FEED....GO TO THE PENS, AND HE'S PLAYING DEAD. I RAN UP TO HIM, PETTED HIM, AND CALLED OUT...BUT HE JUST LAYED THERE LOOKING AT ME. I PICKED HIM UP AND SET HIM ON HIS FEET...HE COLLAPSED. I PICKED HIM UP BY THE HORNS AND TRIED TO WALK WITH HIM...HE DID, BUT BARELY TOUCHING THE GROUND WITH HIS FRONT FEET. I PICKED UP THE SORE LEG FROM YESTERDAY HOPING THAT HE WOULD PUT WEIGHT ON HIS GOOD ONE....BUT IT JUST BUCKLED UNDERNEITH HIM AND HE COLLAPSED AGAIN. I FELT EVERY INCH OF HIM...AND HE SEEMS TO BE OK. SO I'M LOST! HIS SHEATH WAS VERY DIRTY, SO I CLEANED THAT OUT.. LET HIM SIT AGAINS THE WALL, BROUGHT HIM SOME PELLETS...ATE THEM FINE....A LITTLE SLOW, BUT HE ATE THEM. BROUGHT HIM SOME WATER IN A LITTLE BOWL...DRANK THAT RIGHT UP. SO I FILLED UP ANOTHER BIGGER ONE AND SET IT RIGHT NEXT TO HIM. CHECKED HIS TEMP.... 104.8 WHICH IS A LITTLE HIGH. DO I PUT HIM ON ANTIBIOTICS? COULD THESE BE SIGNS OF PARASITES?? EVERYONE GETS WORMED ONCE A MONTH. SHOULD I RE-WORM HIM? ANY SUGGESTIONS? IS HE GOING NEUROLOGIC ON ME? HIS HOOFS ARE OK TOO...THEY NEED TO BE TRIMMED, YES, BUT I JUST DONT' SEE WHAT COULD BE CAUSING HIM PAIN NOT TO PUT HIS HOOFS DOWN.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
NELLA