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  1. Tapsmom

    ADGA Issues

    Ayup ADGA is currently a mess! It seems to have started when they launched their revised website called NG and it has been a mess since then. My herd is all ADGA registered and some are AGS. But I will be dual registering them with AGS over the Winter. Unfortunately the shows in New England...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    Thank you very much. There is a big hole in our herd at the moment. She was quite the presence! But we do have her brother and a few of her offspring.
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    Thank you so much Greybeard! I was as concerned about the possibility of it being genetic. We have 2 of her daughters, her son and her twin brother. This situation has really stunk, but as long as we can learn from it, all is not lost. You have all been wonderful and your support means more...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    Thank you everyone. Grey beard that was VERY helpful. I just spoke to my vet a little while ago and she translated for me as well. Her take was that it was a neurological cause. I.e for some reason the "pyhyloric spincter" was not allowing food to move to and from her abomasum. This resulted in...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    Thank you Rammy. I have been second guessing myself again since yesterday morning.
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    The preliminary results already came over. But they are "greek": to me. I am waiting to hear back from my vet for clarification. I think it is telling me she had an impaction in her Abomasum..but I am not sure it clarifies what it was.. It is written in very medical terminology. This was...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    We lost Camilla this morning. She is eating buckets of banana peels with the Angel's now. We are taking her for a necropsy to see if we can find out what was going on.
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    This was yesterday after we moved her into the basement and she had been eating for a few hours. The bottom photo is how she was acting for the few hours before her nap with her "mom"
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    The last 2 mornings she has seemed like she wasn't going to make it through the day. I give her her 6 ml shot of Vitamin B, 5 ml Probios and 20 ml of Nutridrench. By the time the kids got home yesterday and today..she had her head up and was looking around for them. And she was eating hay...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    I got home before the kids and headed out to the barn. Her temperature had risen..but only to 98. I agreed I would not make any decisions without discussing it with the kids. So we decided to make her a pen in the basement, because even with the 2 heat lamps and an enclosed stall..and 2...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    I am afraid it looks like we are losing the battle. Her temp was dropping over the weekend and we were able to get it back up to 101 and get her eating. But it was back down to 97.5 this morning. I fear everything is shutting down. I am leaving work to get home before the kids in case I am...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    Camilla the troublemaker would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    Just an update..we had started her on 5 ml Probios, 6ml injection of Vitamin B and 20 ml of Nutridrench. After a few days her appetite returned with a vengeance. I stopped the Vitamin B and she was still eating ok. I don't know if I mentioned it, but she also needed help to stand up...but now...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    All her bodily functions came back as normal
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    We may have an answer!!!! The second vet I took her to reviewed everything that my vet had done. And her observation is that there is some type of deep seated infection. She gave her a pretty strong antibiotic so she re recommended putting her on a week of Baytril shots to hopefully knock out...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    I did reuse last night's needle. But I sterilized it with hot water. And we wash the syringe itself out immediately after use. I will not reuse them again. It did make me nervous.
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    On a side note. I am giving her the 6 ml Vitamin B shot with an 18 guage needle..that I do not have many of. Can I use the same needle more than once? I have always tossed them after one use..but I am running out. It would be the same medication in the same goat. Secondly, I have always rubbed...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    The results after our "last ditch effort" are still inconclusive. However, we have a more concrete game plan. This vet tossed out a few different options and did end by commenting that she does remind her of a cow with Ketosis. Which is funny, because on researching symptoms, they do fit...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    A friend of mine also tossed out one other thing we have not checked for..Lyme disease. I know it is a longshot..but I figure it can't hurt to check. I used to have a dog that had chronic Lyme...and it was brought on by trauma. She had an injury to her paw and as we treated that infection...
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    Sick doe..vet and I stumped

    Thank you everyone. The ultrasound will be our last ditch effort. And if I find, as I fear, that it is untreatable. We will spoil her rotten until she tells us it is time. She is very alert and actually wags her tail if you bring her a tasty treat. She is having difficulty getting up..but once...
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