bonbean01
Herd Master
Not sure why I didn't think of this before...I have sheep, not goats, but they share many health problems.
Our youngest lamb Dixie hadn't lost weight, and was eating and drinking fine...but noticed a weakness on her back legs and hips...thought she might have injured herself and we checked her carefully and no bones broken or breaks in her skin...thought it might be a pulled muscle, and no temp...so did the wait and see.
She got worse the next day and worse the day after...took her temp again and it was HIGH!!!! Had read about bacterial arthritis and started shots of antibiotics right away...taught me that even though there is no fever one day, take it everyday when something is not right.
By the second day of antibiotic shots, there was a huge improvement and fever was gone...continued for 5 days of penicillin shots and she just got better and better...you would never know she had that now...back to her impy ways and totally fine.
Just something to consider...I would check her temp everyday just in case...learned my lesson on that!
We got Dixie before she was totally down...had her temp not gone way up, or if I didn't recheck her temp...not sure what the outcome would have been?
Porkchop...thank you for posting that...helps us all look for those symptoms. Porkchop..was the temp ever high?
I save all these things in a sheep problem file on my computer...thank you Porkchop for posting that...your post will go in my folder...in an emergency I don't want to go scrolling around trying to find a post
Let us know how it's going Dragon! Hoping for a happy recovery
Our youngest lamb Dixie hadn't lost weight, and was eating and drinking fine...but noticed a weakness on her back legs and hips...thought she might have injured herself and we checked her carefully and no bones broken or breaks in her skin...thought it might be a pulled muscle, and no temp...so did the wait and see.
She got worse the next day and worse the day after...took her temp again and it was HIGH!!!! Had read about bacterial arthritis and started shots of antibiotics right away...taught me that even though there is no fever one day, take it everyday when something is not right.
By the second day of antibiotic shots, there was a huge improvement and fever was gone...continued for 5 days of penicillin shots and she just got better and better...you would never know she had that now...back to her impy ways and totally fine.
Just something to consider...I would check her temp everyday just in case...learned my lesson on that!
We got Dixie before she was totally down...had her temp not gone way up, or if I didn't recheck her temp...not sure what the outcome would have been?
Porkchop...thank you for posting that...helps us all look for those symptoms. Porkchop..was the temp ever high?
I save all these things in a sheep problem file on my computer...thank you Porkchop for posting that...your post will go in my folder...in an emergency I don't want to go scrolling around trying to find a post
Let us know how it's going Dragon! Hoping for a happy recovery