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GOAT HEALTH INFORMATION

This is an attempt  to list symptoms and associate possible sources of health problems causing them.
We are not experts in this area and recommend that you consult other health experts and formal
documentation when you have health problems with your animals. It has lots more information that I've collected from other breeders who've been at this a lot longer than I have.
 

This page will be continually updated and expanded. We will be taking certain symptoms and creating
a special page to explain how we analyze which health problem  may be the most correct for symptoms.

Appetite loss

Aborted birth

  • Abnormal  development of fetus
  • Infections
  • Brucellosis
  • Campylobacter (vibriosis)
  • Chlamydia
  • Leptospirosis
  • Neosporosis
  • Q-fever
  • Sarcocystosis
  • Tickborne fever
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Insufficiency of placenta for multiple fetuses
  • Trauma & Stress

Abscess (Knots)

  • CL

  • Infections

Back Arched

  • Colic

Back legs stiff and unable to use

Blind

Blisters

Bloated

Body Stretched with feet well behind

Breathing - Congested

  • Respiratory problem

Breathing difficulty or rapidly

Convulsions

  • Tetanus

Cough (chronic)

Crying

Depressed and Crying

Diarrhea

Drooling

  • See Salivate Excessively

Drunken Behavior

Eyelid begins to extend over the eye

  • Tetanus

Eye closed and watery

Fever

Foaming at the Mouth

Hair Loss

Hanging of head

  • See Depressed

Head against wall

Head pulled to flank with rigid neck

Head shaking

Hoof with foul smell

  • Foot Rot

Itching - Irritation

Kidding  - past due-date

  • Dead kid
  • False pregnancy
  • Hypocalcaemia
  • Retained kid
  • Ring womb
  • Single large kid

Lameness

  • CAE
  • Degenerative Arthritis
  • Foot & Mouth Disease
  • Foot Rot
  • Foreign object in hoof
  • Fracture, Soft tissue or joint damage
  • Injection damage to Sciatic or Peroneal nerves
  • Laminitis
  • Overextension of the stifle and hock in young kids
  • Overgrown feet
  • Swollen feet from pregnancy (pregnancy toxemia)
  • Weak pasterns

Leg paralysis

Looking at  its own abdomen

Lying on side making paddling movements

Mouth covered with Sores

Moving in one direction only

Muscle Stiffness

Navel Swollen

  • Navel Ill

Salivate Excessively or Drooling

Scabs

Skin Bumps

Straining to Urinate

Stumbling

  • See Drunken Behavior

Sudden Death

Swelling of face or lower jaw

Swelling of Knees

Trembling

Udder Hard / Hot / Tender

Weak kid

  • Campylobacter in mother
  • Chlamydiosis in mother
  • Exposure to cold weather
  • Floppy kid syndrome
  • Infection in mother which impairs Placentia to transfer nutrients to the fetus
  • Injury at birth
  • Malnutrition of mother prior to kidding
  • Premature or light birth weight
  • Toxoplasmosis in  mother
  • Trace mineral deficiency in mother
  • Unable to get proper nutrition from mother

Weight Loss