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    Treatment of hoof issue in goat

    Hello I’m in need of some advice as to how best to treat my goat. I’m pretty sure he has Shelly hoof or that due to the really dry then wet weather we have had his hoof has cracked. He went lame a few hours ago and is sound on all his other feet and the other boys he is with are sound. The...
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    Post crop surgery help

    My lovely ex battery had to undergone a surgical emptying of her crop yesterday under GA. the vet told me to give her soft food only and keep her in for a few days. Last night she had scrambled eggs but this morning she has not fully emptied her crop. Is this normal due to the surgery or should...
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    Coughing still after lungworm treatment

    Hello All my goats are wormed every 3 months with panomec. one of my goats was coughing so I called the vet and we treated him for lungworm we used panomec injection and tested him for lungworm which came back positive and showed another type of worm sorry I can’t remember the name. the vet...
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    Is it normal for goats horns to move or snap ?

    Hello I hope you could help me as I feel absolutely horrendous that one of my goats is hurt. I have two 6 month old girls they have moved into a new stable and I think it’s a bit dusty so they have runny noses so before I moved them I needed to wipe their noses. when I got hold of one of the...
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    Urinary calculi or bladder infection

    Hello my two year old Boer wether suffered from urinary calculi in January this year. By some miracle he survived emergency surgery where they placed a catheter and put him onto diazepam. He managed after 3 weeks to pass 11 stones. Since then I’ve been incredibly paranoid and watching him...
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    Goat unable to urinate

    Hello My 18 month old Boer became unwell yesterday morning he was straining and unable to urinate. I phoned our vet who scanned him and said his bladder was full and he was in retention, he was rushed to the hospital where they operated to empty the bladder and insert a Foley catheter. prior...
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