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04-19-2015, 07:55 PM
Weird... a year later to the day, Jezebel is dribbling green saliva and occasionally vomiting a little. I noticed her beard was covered in yuck when I brought the goats in this evening and she looked a little "off"--not chewing cud, not eating, and standing like she was uncomfortable. She's not bloated.
I brought her in and gave her about 120 cc's of activated charcoal (half the bottle). It seems to indicate she should have a lot more--like two whole bottles worth--but it was enough of a fight getting even half of it down, so I stopped before all the charcoal ended up everywhere except in the goat. Besides, I want to have some left in case any other goats start showing symptoms. I also gave her 30 cc's milk of magnesia. I hope she'll be ok. I plan to check her through the night.
I'm thinking I must have something in the rhododendron family living somewhere on my property. I've looked for stuff that might be it, but I'm terrible at identifying plants and we have a lot of area to try to comb over. The goats were all down by the pond for most of today, though, so Phil and I will probably head down there tomorrow and see if we can find anything suspicious. Unfortunately, nothing is in bloom yet, which makes it really hard for my untrained eye to pick out different species. I hope none of my other goats get into whatever this stuff is! Last year it was only Petunia and it was only the one time, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that goats generally prefer to avoid this plant in case I can't find what it is they got into.
I brought her in and gave her about 120 cc's of activated charcoal (half the bottle). It seems to indicate she should have a lot more--like two whole bottles worth--but it was enough of a fight getting even half of it down, so I stopped before all the charcoal ended up everywhere except in the goat. Besides, I want to have some left in case any other goats start showing symptoms. I also gave her 30 cc's milk of magnesia. I hope she'll be ok. I plan to check her through the night.
I'm thinking I must have something in the rhododendron family living somewhere on my property. I've looked for stuff that might be it, but I'm terrible at identifying plants and we have a lot of area to try to comb over. The goats were all down by the pond for most of today, though, so Phil and I will probably head down there tomorrow and see if we can find anything suspicious. Unfortunately, nothing is in bloom yet, which makes it really hard for my untrained eye to pick out different species. I hope none of my other goats get into whatever this stuff is! Last year it was only Petunia and it was only the one time, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that goats generally prefer to avoid this plant in case I can't find what it is they got into.