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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | there are two goats left on this livestock farm (land owners goats.) One got very sick a month ago and suddenly passed, it was obviously some sort of infection that killed him snot/fever/runny eyes etc. Now one passed this morning, he was great yesterday and the landowner said he ate too much soy, I'm not sure where it's stored or how he got into it, but it seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation to me. Is this normal thing to kill goats?
It's sad, but it's a livestock farm, these goats didn't get handled enough as babies and weren't very friendly so I guess I'm not as emotionally effected by this. We have horses stalled next to them and one horse in particular is another girls pride and joy and she's basically convinced he's going to keel over because something died next to him. She's freaking out about it, she is just a boarder, I'm a boarder AND I rent my home on the same property under the landowner. She wants me to voice whatever opinion I have about the goats death to the landowner.... MMM how bout NOPE and honestly my opinion is that it doesn't effect me. I'm so frustrated, she's blown up my phone all day convinced this goats pathogens is going to infect our whole barn, and kill everything, anyone know of the validity of this point? I understand the concern, but the goats belly was plain ole bloated, he had no snot/cough or anything last night plus he was playing all day with the other goat, am I silly for not being concerned about this?
ETA: What I am sad about is the one goat that is most afraid of people is now alone and had to be in a stall next to a dead goat all day before the guy could move him to a good place.
Edited by Crowned Image 2014-09-29 2:50 PM
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Location: Bandera, TX | You might want to PM uno-dos-tres!
She knows a lot about goats.... |
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Location: South Dakota | Was this something new that was fed to the goats? |
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I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | Timber Creek - 2014-09-29 3:49 PM
Was this something new that was fed to the goats?
I know they keep a big heap of feed/other farm products in the indoor arena which is usually kept closed but they were bringing in round bales all day yesterday so they may have gotten in there. If they got it, they got it by being sneaky. They are only purposefully being fed a goat feed out of the bag from the farm store and grass/hay. I don't feed them, the barn manager handles it.
Edited by Crowned Image 2014-09-29 2:54 PM
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Location: SE Louisiana | The only thing I knew that can kill goats that fast is Enterotoxemia, but these are not the symptoms. |
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Location: Southwest Louisiana | A goat can get bloat and die within 24 hours from eating too much of something or something bad, like feed, moldy hay, etc. Not quite the same as colic, but sort of similar I guess in the fact that it isn't contagious. |
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The Advice Guru
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| Goats can die of lung worm, and it can be transmitted to both horse, and human. My cousin contracted lung worm from goat tying at high school rodeos. |
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