Foamy mouth after deworming?

[neener92]

Would he be foaming for a few days though?

 

[elevan]

Would he be foaming for a few days though?

Did you have the vet out?

If he's still foaming and acting uncomfortable, then I'm gonna suspect poisoning. Regardless of believing that nothing is of a poisonous nature in his pen.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I forgot to mention that he was started on ammonia chloride about a week or so ago, its given daily 1 tsp. in his feed, could he be reacting to that?

Unlikely, but I would take him off of it to be sure. Since that is one of the things that is new. I would also take him off of grain and just give him some grass hay until he starts looking a lot better.

Did you try giving him mineral oil? If he drenches easily this may help, but it takes a quit a bit of mineral oil to do any good, 2 to 4 cups. If he isn't feeling well, stressing him out may not be a good thing.

Activated charcoal is used for poisoning. I have never used it, not sure exactly what to do with it.


Have you tried taking a tempurature? A low tempurature is just as bad as a high tempurature.

any staggering or acting confussed?

 

[neener92]

OK, I was watching him eat some green hay, and when he started chewing his cud the foam started. I was just going to call the vet and would you believe it the flipping phones are out.....ughh! I'll give him some probios for now and see what that does, and pick up some baking soda later and see if I can get him to eat some.

He's eating hay normally. When I offered him some grain with the ammonia chloride in it he wouldn't touch it, but when I offered just plan grain he nibbled on it. He ate some salt and chewed some cud and then ate more hay. Dad was thinking its from the ammonia chloride. I don't know hopefully I can get a hold of the vet, it sucks having only one vet for the whole county, he's always out on large animal calls.

No staggering or acting confused. I'm going to take his temp when I give him the probiotics.

 

[ksalvagno]

Is there clover in your hay?

 

[neener92]

No clover in the hay, but this passed rain clover popped up in the field....everywhere!

 

[elevan]

Can you take a picture and post it to show us what the foaming looks like?

On the AC: When it comes to adding it to grain, it's usually best to buy a grain that has it added to the pellet already or add it a sweet feed to allow it to stick. Other ways of giving AC would be to add a little to the water (but then sometimes they won't drink it) or to add it to their loose minerals. On my farm I use a grain that has it in the pellet and I also add it to the minerals.

 

[neener92]

Took a picture and gave some probios. His temp was 103.5.

Now that you say something about clover I remembered that when horses eat clover they get a foamy mouth, maybe he ate a lot of clover.....

 

[ksalvagno]

If he is out in the pasture, then it is clover doing it. Especially if it popped up fresh recently. That looks like foam from eating something to me and my guess would be the clover.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I agree, that's not enough foam to be caused by toxins.