Help!

Have goat 2 1/2 months old. Noticed yesterday he was crying a lot and looked as if he was trying to urinate but could not (only drops of urine were coming out). Just stands there looking sick. Was eating yesterday. Feed him Sweet Treat and let him graze with fresh water daily. Can't tell you much else except he is a mixed breed and I am new at this (can you tell?). Any help is appreciated.

Thank you, Bern

-- Bernadette Chouest (bandmfarm@hotmail.com), May 03, 2002

Answers

Hello, New here..Noticed your post and thought I'd put in my 2 cents.. Is he banded? when was this done? If within the past day or two, it could have been done wrong and the band could be pintching his watchamacallit. 2nd.. What are you feeding him? I feed blue seal lamb finisher to my bucks and wethers for the ammonium cloride it contains. AC helps prevent urinary calcli (sp), it is possable he could have stones and is unable to pass them. In any case, unable to pass urine will cause a slow painful death without vet care.. Good luck..

-- SleepyHollow (meekospoohbear@hotmail.com), May 03, 2002.

You might look at this web site and see if what is described is akin to the signs that your goat is displaying: Urinary Calculi, http://uvalde.tamu.edu/staff/Machen7.htm

-- BC (desertdweller44@yahoo.com), May 03, 2002.

Hate to admit it, but my first goat was a registered pygmy and he quit urinating at about 2-3 months old. He would just stand in that spread out way and try, but nothing came out. He was bottle raised and I took the feed stores recommendation of sweet feed, quite a bit each day as food. No hay and he apparently didn't eat enough grass from the yard. The vet tried to reroute his urinary system to bypass the blockage, but no dice. "Doat the Goat" bit the dust. The moral of this story is to not listen to your feed store, and go really light on the grain, and heavy on the roughage. Good luck-lorraine

-- lorraine lamb (jcurtis@frontier.net), May 07, 2002.