Goats are known for producing quality milk. At the same time, we can say that they are unpretentious and are able to easily adapt to changing circumstances. Goats are very rarely sick. However, if this happens, it is necessary to detect it in time, diagnose it and carry out treatment. This article will look at various diseases in goats and how to treat them.

What do goats get sick from?

There may be several reasons for getting sick:

  1. Difficulties can arise due to nutritional problems. This happens if it showed signs of poor quality or was insufficient.
  2. If a goat eats a poisonous plant, it can also lead to illness. In this case, you need to understand how the goat can be poisoned.
  3. Sometimes the cause is the ingress of pesticides into the body.
  4. Improper animal care can lead to rather unpleasant consequences.
  5. A viral infection can be the cause of goat disease.
  6. Some violations are parasitic in nature.

Goats

On a note! Symptoms can be very different here. When a goat coughs, there can be many reasons.

Symptoms and Treatment

In order to take action on time, you need to closely monitor the presence of disturbing signs. Treatment and symptoms of goat diseases:

  • When infected with pneumonia, typical symptoms are weakness, cough, fever, snot, rapid breathing, and they wheeze. Affected goats are isolated and placed in a warm and dry room. It can be treated with penicillin injections. If the kids are sick, fish oil is added to their diet, as a result, the recovered animal will not even be able to cough.
  • Ketosis is a disease associated with metabolic disorders. Occurs when the goat does not eat well. In this case, change the diet as needed.
  • Mastitis is one of the diseases of the udder in goats. One of the most common reasons is that an animal begins to fall ill if it is in unsanitary conditions.

Mastitis

  • Bloating of the abdominal scar is associated with overeating grass. For healing, it is treated by adjusting the diet.
  • In case of inept milking, a disease such as cracked teats can occur. For treatment, it is enough to disinfect and lubricate with petroleum jelly. This will give good results. If the treatment is not carried out on time, you can get dangerous white muscle arthritis.
  • Diarrhea is possible.
  • If brucellosis occurs - this is an infection, then it cannot be cured. In this case, the animal is slaughtered.
  • Dictyocaulosis is caused by a worm that lives in the bronchi of a goat. Only a veterinarian can treat by injecting a special solution into the trachea.
  • If the goat has furunculosis, the pus is removed from the wound, it can be treated with streptocidal ointment.
  • With necrobacteriosis, hooves are affected. Animals limp from him. Their hooves are swollen. Treatment should be active and comprehensive. Hoof diseases in goats and their treatment are quite challenging. At the same time, they give antibiotics and means to increase immunity.

Necrobacteriosis

This list is far from complete.

Diseases in kids

One of the common diseases in kids is vitamin deficiency. In most cases, we are talking about a lack of vitamins A and D in food, sometimes the goat may lack vitamins B, C and E.

One of the consequences is a slowdown in growth. Another characteristic manifestation of the disease may be a deterioration or loss of appetite, sometimes convulsions occur, snot comes out, unsteady walking is present, the kids may fall or begin to shake. In extreme cases, their legs may come off.

Treatment in this situation has long been known and consists in the fact that it is necessary to make up for the lack of appropriate vitamins.

Important!A lack of vitamin D can cause rickets in kids.

To make up for the lack of this vitamin, to overcome the diseases of the kids, you need to drink more milk, it will be useful to additionally consume meat and bone meal, as well as yeast.

To replenish vitamin A, you need to eat carrots, fish oil, or hay. The additional use of supplements containing retinol will help.

In the most dangerous cases, the veterinarian may prescribe the intramuscular injection of the vitamins necessary for the kids for therapy.

Prevention of vitamin deficiency includes the use of a varied diet, refusal of unjustified restrictions. You also need to ensure that the room is well ventilated and not wet.

Diseases in kids

What can be poisoned

Important! If a goat eats grass in a pasture, it is almost impossible that she chooses the wrong plant for food.

Poisoning can happen in several ways:

  1. If we are talking about getting a sharp poison for food, then this happens if you give a goat poisonous plants: wolf's bast, euphorbia or mouse peas. This usually leads to severe inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.
  2. Some herbs can have a near narcotic effect on goats. Examples of such plants are poisonous lettuce, yew or poppy. The result of their impact is damage to the nervous system.
  3. The goat can be poisoned by mineral poisons, which are water that contains phosphorous, mercury, or lead substances.

Important!In all these cases, in case of poisoning, it is necessary to empty the intestines from hazardous substances that have got there. Sometimes it is enough for poisoning that the nose just smells a dangerous smell.

If an animal breaks its leg

If this happens, you need to provide first aid. When a goat has broken a leg what to do - it is best to see a veterinarian. If this is not possible, you can help the animal yourself. For this you need:

  • immobilize the goat;
  • to calm the animal, you need to give him a small amount of weak alcohol;
  • disinfect the wound if the fracture is open;
  • set the bone;
  • put a splint on the injured leg;
  • wrap with a sterile bandage;
  • then you need to fix the fracture with slats from different sides and wrap it with a bandage again.

Gradually, the bone will heal and the leg will heal.

Note. After completing the procedures, it is advisable to seek the help of a veterinarian.

If an animal breaks its leg

Fall to their feet

Usually, the cause of this kind of violation is a serious violation of the vitamin, protein or mineral metabolism in the body.

In this case, the following characteristic symptoms may occur:

  1. Bone softening occurs.
  2. Sometimes a sick goat has a thickened joint.
  3. Animals often fall on their limbs.
  4. They become passive, move little, do not hold their heads.
  5. Goats are constantly licking feeders and walls.

On a note!Disorders often occur during periods of time when goats undergo significant changes in the body.

This applies in particular to situations where they have:

  • lactation;
  • period of intensive growth in kids;
  • goat (birth of a baby);
  • pregnancy.

At this time, nutrients, vitamins and minerals are spent especially intensively.

With such violations, it is vital to adjust the goat diet so that the lost substances can be replenished. Otherwise, the lambing will not work as it should. In extreme cases, macro- and microelements are administered parenterally (bypassing the gastrointestinal tract), most often intramuscularly. It is also important to change the mode of keeping the animals, giving them more opportunities for walking. If this is not done, the quality of the goat meat will deteriorate.

Goats rarely get sick, but if something happens, it is important to come to their aid as soon as possible. Even if they cough, this is a reason to worry about their health. In this case, you need to find out exactly why the goat is coughing.At the same time, it is necessary to understand how to help her in various possible situations.