Goat sounds like it has a stuffed nose11/30/2023 ![]() Baby aspirin is *not* a good alternative to Banamine, so buy a bottle of generic Banamine (flunixin meglumine) from your vet. Do not use other pain relievers, such as Advil, Aleve, Tylenol, etc. Treat medium-to-large breed adult goats with at least three baby aspirin. If Banamine is not available, 81 mg (baby) aspirin can be used. ![]() Administer Banamine into the muscle (IM), dosing 1cc per 100 lbs. Banamine should be used once every 12 hours for no more than two or three days until fever goes down. If the goat cannot be saved, then humanely euthanize it.īanamine or generic equivalent (veterinary prescription) lowers high body temperature and helps alleviate pain and inflammation. When the lungs fill with fluid, survival is unlikely. A goat that wants to live can overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. A goat in this condition probably cannot be saved but always try until efforts prove futile. If the illness has progressed far enough, the goat may try to sit down, moan with discomfort, and immediately stand up, because fluid has begun to accumulate in the lungs and abdomen and its kidneys are shutting down. Fever-reducing medication and appropriate antibiotics must be started immediately. If high fever is present, it must be brought down quickly. See my article entitled Diagnosing Illnesses in Goats on on the Articles page or in MeatGoatMania. Without taking rectal temperature, you can misinterpret visual symptoms, wrongly diagnose the cause of the problem, and medicate the goat incorrectly, resulting in the goat's death. (Example: A newborn with "weak-kid syndrome" will have sub-normal body temperature that requires a different treatment regimen from a kid running a fever caused by an infection). Fever indicates infection or inflammation. Body temperature tells you which way to proceed treatment-wise. TREATMENT PROTOCOL: Take the sick goat's rectal temperature. And if you do catch it and don't have appropriate prescription medications on hand, the goat is likely going to die. If you aren't aware of your goats' normal behavior, you can easily miss the onset of Interstitial pneumonia. Death can occur in as little as four hours. The goat can look fine at night and be dead by morning. Interstitial pneumonia has only one symptom: rapid onset of very high fever (high as 109*F), followed by a quick drop in body temperature which, when it falls below 100*F, the goat's lungs are filling up with fluids and dying. No snotty nose, no coughing, oftentimes no congestion. Interstitial pneumonia is the most common form of pneumonia in goats and its only symptom can easily be missed. My experience (Texas) has been that goats can handle rapid hot- to- cold cycles better than fast cold- to- hot temperature changes. Goats in general but kids in particular have trouble controlling body temperature under such conditions, causing them to be susceptible to developing pneumonia. Wide swings of temperature and changes in climatic conditions, such as wet weather, high daytime temperatures, high humidity, and much lower evening temperatures, can set the stage for pneumonia. ![]() Prime times for pneumonia in goats are spring and summer, although it can be a year-round killer of both kids and adults. A wormload compromises the goat's immune system, predisposing it to other illnesses such as pneumonia and listeriosis. Pneumonia is one of the two main killers of goats (the other being a heavy wormload). Usually (But Not Always) A Summer Disease
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