he was only 4.5 months old and in excellent health, i found him lay in his shed, he was bleeting with pain, i called the emergency vet, and by the time she arrived he died, she said that she thought his death was caused by toxic poisoning, but we have no idea how or where the toxins came from. his little friend is lost without him, she is a blind, and relied on him to guide her around (he wore bells around his neck collar) i am hoping to find another mate for her as soon as possible. has anyone had a similar experience with sds in goats?
2007-01-07 17:58:28 · 12 answers · asked by cinderella 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
thank you to everyone who has answered me. i am touched by your responses, and i would like to let you know that i may be getting a new friend for my blind goat very soon. (he is a billy goat ) born a few days ago, but with a mother who has little or no milk, so .......fingers crossed....xxxxxxxx
2007-01-09 10:11:35 · update #1
I am so sorry about your little goat. Sometimes things happen for no reason that we can see. It's very sad but unfortunately it's part of owning animals. I have pygmy goats and nigerian dwarf goats and I have never seen this personally but I know there are many problems with goats that can come on very quickly. Unfortunately the majority of vets are not as familiar with goats as we would hope so it's always a good idea to do some research of our own. There are many plants that are poisonous to goats so certainly that is a possiblity. Also goats can get bloat, bowel infections, and toxic reactions from eating bad hay or grain, from overeating grain, or even from an abrupt change in diet. Goats also need to have access to goat minerals or they can suffer from a variety of illnesses related to deficiencies. Some of these illness can take a goat down very quickly. Good luck in finding a friend for your other goat. Goats are herd animals and get very lonely by themselves, so you are doing the right thing in searching for a replacement. I hope you have success in finding one quickly.
2007-01-08 11:33:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of common house hold plants are extremely poisonous to cats and can kill them quite easily, so do some research to find out whats poisonous to pygmy goats. It could have been a house hold plant, trees, bushes berries all sorts of things, something got in its water or if you have stored food in something thats let off toxins or not been cleaned properly. But there are always other things you just may never know such as it got into chemicals it shouldn't have, someone may have accidentally left a puddle of toxins somewhere. Sadly accidents do happen but research on whats poisonous to pygmy goats may help solve the case.
2007-01-07 19:32:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This actually happened to me once. I've lost many cows, goats, sheep, and even a mule to toxic poisoning. After lots of research into what could be causing them to drop off so rapidly, we discovered there were many contributing factors.
1) Acorn poisoning. In moderate amounts, it's okay, but try to make sure you have very few oak trees around.
2) wild cherry tree leaves. When the leaves wilt, they become toxic as well.
3) maple leaves. Often, a large amount of maple leaves can poison a goat.
Those are the most common issues we had and still have to deal with.
Sorry for your loss!
2013-10-29 15:01:09 · answer #3 · answered by Blossom Bee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look in places you wouldnt think of...like where the food is stored and trees that may have berries around.
So sorry for your loss. I hope you find another goat as soon as possible. When my friend had a similar situation with horses she actually slept in the barn with the one left. Maybe you could set up a pen in a garage or somewhere in your house for the goat who is left so it will not feel alone. Make sure to give it plenty of attention. best of luck to you.
2007-01-07 18:16:53 · answer #4 · answered by Lindsay 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sorry to hear about your loss. I've had this happen to cats, but we later found that a neighbour had left an open pan of anti-freeze for the neighbourhood cats.
Check all areas he had access to, and look for anything out of the norm...... I hope you find a new friend for the blind goat too! She must be really lost and confused right now.
2007-01-07 18:03:14 · answer #5 · answered by Not so Old! Hehehe 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
my mom used to have goats, but i haven't. I'm really sorry to hear about you loss. I know by many experiences that a pet loss can be really tough, and goats are sooo cute! I hope you have luck finding another mate for your other goat.
Best of Luck!!
2007-01-08 12:37:51 · answer #6 · answered by ferrets4ever 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there WERE symptoms, you just didn't notice them. Your vet sounds useless. It sounds like it died from frothy bloat and had a torsion which would have taken hours to develop. I would look carefully at the diet and see if it could have got to something which caused bloat. Is there anything on the housing it could have licked or chewed like wood treatments on the house? Did it get near any ragwort? Did you give it bread?
2007-01-08 11:12:16 · answer #7 · answered by fenlandfowl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry to hear about that. If you feed hay you need to tease it out and check it for weeds, wire and glass. This sounds too sudden to be ragwort poisoning, that develops over months; unless your vet does a post mortem its going to be very difficult to figure out what happened. Hope you figure it out.
2007-01-07 20:25:53 · answer #8 · answered by sarah c 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never had goats but i would still like to give you my sympathy it must of been awfull to see the poor little thing suffer like that x x x
2007-01-07 18:17:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
could there be toxic in the soil? they love to furrage, perhaps you have some comtaminated soil? am sorry to hear of your sad loss
2007-01-07 18:37:10 · answer #10 · answered by dianafpacker 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋