Monday whatevers

[Mugwump]

...water changes moving right along....took a break for some fresh coffee 

The sun is out, it's warming up into a nice day....can't wait to go out and maybe do nothing but walk around picking up sticks 

[wallace]

Got some snow overnight.

I looked out the window yesterday and one of the goats was standing in a strange way, like it was paralyzed. We gave it a shot of vitamin B and its better this morning. Weird.

[Mugwump]

...52 degs here already.......where's my shorts? 

[LizStreithorst]

It's just an easy day off here.  WC will be later.  First pair of half blacks spawned and ate the kids.  I made chicken with 40 cloves of garlic.  It will be better tomorrow so I let it cool some and stuck it in the fridge until tomorrow.  I did have a taste and I totally cannot wait!  We never did get all the rain that was predicted.  The sun is out now.  Everything is greening up.  It's beautiful.  It's still February so it's not supposed to be like this here in Feb.  I just hope that we don't get a killer freeze in May.  The weather gets wackier every year.

[LizStreithorst]

Got some snow overnight.

I looked out the window yesterday and one of the goats was standing in a strange way, like it was paralyzed. We gave it a shot of vitamin B and its better this morning. Weird.

I've never had that in my goats but I've heard about it and used to know how it worked.  I kinda remember that a friend had a doe who he saw standing in his fishing pond.  Goats don't do that.  He called my vet who showed up and determined that the doe had eaten bracken fern which he had everywhere.  The cure was a shot of one of the B vitamins.  I might be way wrong but that's what I remember.

What made you think that vitamin B would work.  Did you use B complex or just one of the B's? 

[wallace]

We had read earlier about goats sometimes having a problem with absorption of Thiamine. It can either be a dietary thing or maybe clostridium in the gut. We need to vaccinate against clostridium and they are overdue for it. We have lost several cows to a similar bacterial problem. The shot was a B-complex. I was afraid it was peritonitis, but the vitamin shot looks like it worked.

[LizStreithorst]

Yeah. it is Thiamine.  I had forgotten.  It's been a long time...Since B vitamins are water soluble and need the other B's to work well B complex was way to go.  I never had clostriduim but I always vaccinated against it and tetanus because is was said to be necessary.

I still have dreams about owning dairy goats but my dreams are always filled with stress.  I miss loving the goats but I don't miss what they made me go through emotioally.

How's the baby with the screw up hoof doing?

[Mugwump]

..Isn't there a feed, or supplement, that can be used regularly...??

[LizStreithorst]

It doesn't happen often. 

[Mugwump]

It doesn't happen often.

..then why not a preventative feed?.....too costly?

[LizStreithorst]

Yes.  B vitamins taste like shit, too.

[wallace]

We feed plenty of alfalfa so its a mystery why it was just this one goat.

[wallace]

How's the baby with the screw up hoof doing?

She's doing ok but the hoof isn't going to grow to be normal. She won't put weight on it so..

[LizStreithorst]

I'm sorry. 

[wallace]

so we have a pet goat. Just this once .lol