Oh yes, the vet will come out .....for £21.50 call out, plus the mileage charge, plus £20 for "examining the goat" thats before the drugs. If the animal is not too ill, or its the ponies who need their jabs, we load them up and take them to save this call out fee.
Managed to get Abel loaded and to the vets. It was one of the young lady vets. Nice girl, but I think she had probably only dealt with pygmy goats before. She said Abel was awfully tall - and that was him lay down in the van!! He was very good while she listened to his breathing, and looked at his swollen face. She said it was not necessarily fluke - even though the symptoms were there. But it was definitely liver damage of some sort.
Abel has had an anibiotic jab, and a drench which covers fluke and worms. I have brought the big container, which we had to open at the surgery, to dose the other goats in the field with him. Vet said there is no guarantee he will pull through, as he is proper poorly, as they say - his membranes are very pale, so he is bleeding from somewhere she says.
But he is back home, with his brother, and ate his tea, and the leaves I got him. And as I say, where there is life there is hope.
Poor old Cain followed us to the gate bleating, but when we got back he was sitting in his field shelter looking very upset about his missing brother, so heaven help us if Abel does not make it. I know I have plenty of goats, but they are not the same as Abel!!
Vet did say the liver damage could be from when he was younger. I did not have him until he was 18 months. I think she was suggesting he may have ate ragwort or something. But the lady who had him, kept horses, and I know she would not intentionally leave this plant in her fields.
Topic: Poorly goat (Read 6435 times)
