Baby Goat Weak Front Legs
With severe neglect sled-runner or Turkish slippertype hooves with elongated toes may cause the goat to walk on its heels.
Baby goat weak front legs. Even if this is not what is wrong with your doe with the symptoms she has she needs to be seen by a vet ASAP. If the feet have not been trimmed recently or the goats have been on soft ground or bedding excess horn commonly overgrows from the walls toes and heels and folds over the sole. This is why one of the most important life-saving ways we goat keepers can help our does during labor is to be ready to clean airways as babies come out.
I have a three one-half year old doe kidded in March. Vitamins E and A are both stored. Weak goat kids may not be able to stand due to the lack of energy that they have.
The first born a buckling has a deformed back leg in which the ankle is bent 180 degrees forward and will not flex. A weak kid cannot stand to nurse its mother. The kid will stop suckling a bottle or nursing well although it will still be able to swallow.
However the treatment is supportive and involves deworming which you mentioned your vet has already done and anti inflammatory drugs. Its very common for healthy kid goats to display a condition where they start walking on the front of the front hooves. I gave them both DAILY bo-se 14 cc per day plus a 400 IU Vit E each day until improved 100.
Temp 1014 eating pooping urinating ok. Selenium Deficiency White Muscle Disease aka Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy causes weak rear legs and can also keep the kid from swallowing. Does have strutted udders.
Any damage that is already been done might be permanent. Hadnt wormed her for awhile but did this morning with oral ivermectin. A very weak kid will be limp and its neck may fold.
