How to get the rumen moving if she can't eat? She's FINALLY home!!!

[Beekissed]

That's great news!!! Don't forget to repeat your probios after the antibiotic dosage is complete...antibiotics tend to cancel out the probios.

 

[KellyHM]

She will probably be on antibiotics for at least a couple of weeks. How often do you think I should give the Probios? Twice a week?

 

[Beekissed]

If she is eating well I'd hold off on the probios until her antibiotic dose is complete. They say wait 48 hours past the last dose of antibiotics to introduce probios...at least in the human world they do. If she stops eating well during that time, I'd throw the probios to her and see if that can jumpstart her again.

 

[ruminantlover27]

How does one steal a cud?

 

[elevan]

 

[autumnprairie]

X2

 

[Queen Mum]

YAY!

 

[Ariel72]

How does one steal a cud?

I think you have to wait til you see a healthy goat burp one up and then you just reach in there and grab it .

 

[GLENMAR]

How does one steal a cud?

I think you have to wait til you see a healthy goat burp one up and then you just reach in there and grab it .

 

[cmjust0]

So glad you didn't steal a cud from another animal and give it to one with A PERFORATED TRACHEA. I hadn't read this thread till just now but when I saw 'steal a cud' and then 'perforated trachea' I was thinking someone would chime in and stop you, but...well, apparently not! It's one thing to give probiotics because they're more or less 'clean' bugs, and for the animal to burp up its own cud...but to introduce all new bugs from another animal to one that's compromised with a perforated trachea?! That could have been really, really bad.

Glad to hear she's back up and doing well.