Clutsy pregnant doe

[elevan]

BTW I HIGHLY recommend you have the injectable on hand! It's vet Rx, but works faster and is easier to administer.

Where do you get the injectable? I just checked jeffers and hoeggers and they don't have it...

 

[helmstead]

Minerals won't do a thing for late gestational hypocalcaemic issues...has to do with feed intake and the demands of the fetuses as they pack it on right before birth.

 

[helmstead]

BTW I HIGHLY recommend you have the injectable on hand! It's vet Rx, but works faster and is easier to administer.

Where do you get the injectable? I just checked jeffers and hoeggers and they don't have it...

 

[elevan]

BTW I HIGHLY recommend you have the injectable on hand! It's vet Rx, but works faster and is easier to administer.

Where do you get the injectable? I just checked jeffers and hoeggers and they don't have it...

Well... back at ya!

 

[helmstead]

I understand, it's late!

 

[rebecca100]

Okay now...Time for 50 questions. Number 1- What is hypocalcemia and what causes it?

 

[rebecca100]

I am assuming from the name that it is a calcium def. but what else?

 

[helmstead]

http://fiascofarm.com/goats/milkfever.htm

 

[helmstead]

The fact that she's weak really worries me. I've had does go hypo before, and maybe go a little off grain (which prompted me to give CMPK) but never had one get wobbly or have trouble getting up/falling down.

 

[rebecca100]

I had just found that site also. She's not off grain at all. I thought perhaps it was just arthritis, and heavy pregnancy, but today she literally tripped over something and rolled across the ground.

http://www.goatworld.com/articles/milkfever/hypocalcemia.shtml