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Elderly Goats Scour Following Alfalfa Binge - blackie's maiden - 02-22-2022
Goats and horses figured out how to remove hook that locks hay trailer twice. Second time, that evening yesterday our very elderly neutered breeding buck and old Mean Mama came down with bad scour and.the old buck just wanted to ly in the horse barn. It took some doing to get them in the buck barn. But they did't eat as usual with the herd. We really didn't expect to find either alive this morning. But they are. Do you think they will snap out of it? Or should we intervene? Stomachs not bloated. Both are pretty thin because they are really old but still get around ok. If so, what should we do? Thanks.
RE: Elderly Goats Scour Following Alfalfa Binge - Nanno - 02-23-2022
So what did they get into in the hay trailer? Was there grain in there? Rich alfalfa? How are they this morning?
RE: Elderly Goats Scour Following Alfalfa Binge - blackie's maiden - 02-23-2022
(02-22-2022, 08:14 PM)blackie's maiden Wrote: Goats and horses figured out how to remove hook that locks hay trailer twice. Second time, that evening yesterday our very elderly neutered breeding buck and old Mean Mama came down with bad scour and.the old buck just wanted to ly in the horse barn. It took some doing to get them in the buck barn. But they did't eat as usual with the herd. We really didn't expect to find either alive this morning. But they are. Do you think they will snap out of it? Or should we intervene? Stomachs not bloated. Both are pretty thin because they are really old but still get around ok. If so, what should we do? Thanks.
RE: Elderly Goats Scour Following Alfalfa Binge - blackie's maiden - 02-23-2022
Hubby says the old.buck/eunuch seems to be eating normally todsy. The elderly female did not.want to go into goat barn for nightly regular feeding again. She still keeps.up with herd during the day but wants to.stay in horse barn at night. She really is a walking skeleton but she kept up with herd until this happened.
There was.no.grain in there. Just our coastal square.bales.and.the expensive alfalfa.bale.we only feed to our senior horse. The alfalfa.was.about 3/4 gone. It was 20 goats and 4 horses into it. I would think that divided it up enough no one animal would.have gotten that much.