As you know, we rehomed Eliezer and Gershom. A few days later, we got a call from their owner that Eliezer wasn’t doing very well. They brought him over and we kept him for them. We gave them Zion, who will take a bottle, so that Gershom wasn’t alone. Eliezer was very weak. He could hardly stand and would seize occasionally. We aren’t sure why he was sick. His owners said that he was eating and drinking pretty well. We think it could have been Enterotoximia, Floppy Kid Syndrome, the stress from moving, or possibly a reaction to the milk replacer. We gave him a CD Antitoxin and Vitamin B Complex injection. We also gave him a drop of cayenne tincture. (an easy tincture to make that instantly revives weak or chilled kids) We gave him raw milk, homemade electrolytes, and molasses. We also gave him free choice baking soda. We kept him in the house. The next day he was doing pretty good. By evening he was ready to go home! So Zion, Eliezer, and Gershom are no longer our kid.
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That’s great that you were able to save him! In our experience whenever a kid has gotten to that point, we haven’t been able to save them…😔 But I’m glad he made it!
In our experience they usually don’t make it too, like Pishon a couple weeks ago, but this time he did. Maybe it was because we gave him shots to keep him alive. We actually found that those shots aren’t expensive, so we will definitely keep some on hand. And of course, God knows best and chooses which goats we keep and which ones we lose.