The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life, sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that binds us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Goat in the Mud

When I went out to feed this morning, Zeus was uninterested in his grain.  I noticed scours and he was looking kind of down.

This evening, I went out to feed and he was lying in the mud...something a goat would never do.  Jason and I had to physically move him to a dry area.  He tried to get up, but seemed unable to coordinate his movements and hold up his own weight.

Took his temperature, 101.7.  This is a fever.  We suspect coccy and are treating for that as best we can.  Administered 2 tablespoons of Maloxx orally - to coat stomach and help with digestion.  Administered 6ml of Vitamin B Complex subcutaneously - to stimulate body and encourage digestion.  Administered 30ml of Corid (no Sulmet on hand) orally - to treat coccidiosis.

We will check on him later tonight, but there is little else we can do.  Neptune, our other buck, is continuing to sit vigil by his side, rubbing on his head incessantly (probably annoying Zeus).

ALSO...thought we found a rattlesnake by the feed buckets.  Treated it as such.  It ended up to be a Gopher snake with a really good rattlesnake impression...unfortunately for him, we believed him when he coiled up and "rattled."  We shot him.
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