Botulism

Pinewood Ridge

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How many of you vaccinate your goats for botulism B, along with regular CD&T? I've been doing it the past several years since we had a couple of baby donkeys, and one goat, die from it. The donkeys had been vaccinated for the B strain, which is also what I give my horses. The doe only had CD&T. Its a horrible way for them to die, with paralysis creeping up their body until it takes out their lungs/heart. They can't recover, and they cry.

The vet says we have something in the soil here in southern Kentucky that percolates up when we get a lot or rain, and it can live forever.

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The vet says we have something in the soil here in southern Kentucky that percolates up when we get a lot or rain, and it can live forever.
If it is a good vet....

Then I would believe them and keep on a goin' with giving them the shots as you have been doing.

I never gave those shots.... and didn't need to. :idunno
 

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