My goat got kicked in the head
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:30 pm
Hi everyone,just 'lil 'ol me here.
Want to say 1st that Weebs is doing great & sends licks & wags to everyone!
Now onto the big problem. I got back from Xmas in Az. to find my goat Bee having seizures. Called my vet, he came out. We figured he had been kicked in the head by my mare. He gave him a shot of Valium IV to help stop the seizures. He recomended I put a heat lamp in the goat house (which I wasn't too crazy about cuz of the fire danger) so had a couple of friends come over & we managed to get him into the mudroom via a wheelbarrow where he could keep warm. My vet said his temp was normal (which was good cuz it has been cold here) & figured he hadn't been that way for long. The next day went to my vet & got a bottle of Manatol & a couple more shots of Valium.Got the bottle of Manatol into him & gave him another shot of Valium (about 12:30 PM) to help contrrol the seizures.The seizures have stopped but it seems he is in a coma now. Have managed to get water down him via siringe & some yogert(which will help keep his gut moving).
Just don't know where to go from here. I feel so helpless(you guys here know that feeling all too well)I'm afraid there was alot of brain damage done as he was having seizures every 5 minutes even after getting Valium IV.
Any thoughts here are needed, picking everyone's brain here.
Love all of you here!
Want to say 1st that Weebs is doing great & sends licks & wags to everyone!
Now onto the big problem. I got back from Xmas in Az. to find my goat Bee having seizures. Called my vet, he came out. We figured he had been kicked in the head by my mare. He gave him a shot of Valium IV to help stop the seizures. He recomended I put a heat lamp in the goat house (which I wasn't too crazy about cuz of the fire danger) so had a couple of friends come over & we managed to get him into the mudroom via a wheelbarrow where he could keep warm. My vet said his temp was normal (which was good cuz it has been cold here) & figured he hadn't been that way for long. The next day went to my vet & got a bottle of Manatol & a couple more shots of Valium.Got the bottle of Manatol into him & gave him another shot of Valium (about 12:30 PM) to help contrrol the seizures.The seizures have stopped but it seems he is in a coma now. Have managed to get water down him via siringe & some yogert(which will help keep his gut moving).
Just don't know where to go from here. I feel so helpless(you guys here know that feeling all too well)I'm afraid there was alot of brain damage done as he was having seizures every 5 minutes even after getting Valium IV.
Any thoughts here are needed, picking everyone's brain here.
Love all of you here!