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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 11:42 am: | |
Hi Susan.
So Glad to hear your pet goat is doing much better. I to have pet wethers and have had the unpleasent experiance of stones and blocked bladder's on several of them. Do keep him on the acidifier, and purchase ammonium cholride and add this to his daily diet. My last baby that had a blockage was 9 months old when he woke me up in the middle of the night screaming. He was my 3rd in 10 years to be blocked. I knew right away what the problem was. I had not started him and his twin brother on the ammonium cholride at the time due to they were still with their mom. I purchase ammonium cholride from my local co-op feed store and I buy it in 40 pound bags, they might have to speical order it, my store does, don't take no for a answer they can order it for you. I buy two 40 pound bags and that will last me probably 2.5 years. It will keep for years if you keep it in a dry place such as in the house, I do feed all my goats grain daily, but I limit the amount that I give them and I mix in about 1/2 cup of extra ammonium cholride in with 8 cups of grain. I feed that amount to 8 full grown goats once daily.I have 3 other lots with different numbers of goats housed in them and I feed them grain also. I have one lot that has only two does in that lot and they are the only one's that don't get the ammonium cholride, but if I have does and wether's together those do get the ammonium cholride, everyone. When you first start them on the ammonium cholride they probably aren't going to like it,in fact they probably will walk away from it and look at you like this ain't our dinner, give you that look you've got to be kidding, mine have gotten use to it over the years and don't mind it any more, small price to pay to help in keeping them healthy. It makes mine head straight to the water tough when they finish eating their grain which is also a good thing. The more fluids they take in the more it helps to dilute their urine which helps flush out any grains of sand that might have acculated in their bladders. I hate to say this but if wethers or breeding billy's are keep and are fed grain the odds of them delevelping a blockage is almost a sure thing if precauions aren't taking to help prevent them. All 3 of my pet wether's that had blockages had to have surgery, Note it's not cheap but all survied and 2 went ahead and lived and are still with me today, the last will be 3 on March 17th of this year .I did lose one due to a unlated illness. Urinary calculi is a very painfull and can be prevented in most cases. Again i'm so glad to read your post that your pet wether is responding to the treatment and I wish him continued good health. Sandy and Kids |
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