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Just got back from the emergency vet with Lottie. In the space of just 6 hours, she has gone from lively and healthy, to flat, in pain and not eating.
Shes had metaclopramide and metacam, and happily had some recovery diet which she lapped from the bowl, and is now chewing half heartedly on some peppermint hay. Her temp was just 99.7, when it should be around 104, so she is in a box filled with hay in the living room.
She is my 3rd doe in a row that has done this. Florence my first Dutch went into gut stasis no less than 20 times in the 7 years i owned her. She was 9 when she died. Flora my second doe i lost last April at just 9 months, same problem but she never recovered and my vet thought her bowel was either deformed or dying and she was PTS (i was not at home at the time, had i been the outcome may have been different).
Lottie is just over a year, she isnt spayed yet, but my vet doesnt feel that is relevant. He is at a loss, as am i as to what is causing this.
Its only my doe's that seem to suffer this problem. My bucks are all fine. There are no plants that they have access too that could poison them.
I put her out at 7.30 this morning, she did her usual stealing of some parsley and coriander, then had nothing but hay and water until 10.30, when she had a small amount of greens. I went for a walk, once home i offered them some more parsley at 4.30, and i couldnt even find her. She was all hunched up at the bottom of the garden.
She refused to eat anything so i took her straight down to the vet.
Im worried that its something environmental, but why does it just affect the doe's and not the bucks?
I just dont know what to do. Im worried that if i dont find out what it is, its a potential death sentence for her.
Shes had metaclopramide and metacam, and happily had some recovery diet which she lapped from the bowl, and is now chewing half heartedly on some peppermint hay. Her temp was just 99.7, when it should be around 104, so she is in a box filled with hay in the living room.
She is my 3rd doe in a row that has done this. Florence my first Dutch went into gut stasis no less than 20 times in the 7 years i owned her. She was 9 when she died. Flora my second doe i lost last April at just 9 months, same problem but she never recovered and my vet thought her bowel was either deformed or dying and she was PTS (i was not at home at the time, had i been the outcome may have been different).
Lottie is just over a year, she isnt spayed yet, but my vet doesnt feel that is relevant. He is at a loss, as am i as to what is causing this.
Its only my doe's that seem to suffer this problem. My bucks are all fine. There are no plants that they have access too that could poison them.
I put her out at 7.30 this morning, she did her usual stealing of some parsley and coriander, then had nothing but hay and water until 10.30, when she had a small amount of greens. I went for a walk, once home i offered them some more parsley at 4.30, and i couldnt even find her. She was all hunched up at the bottom of the garden.
She refused to eat anything so i took her straight down to the vet.
Im worried that its something environmental, but why does it just affect the doe's and not the bucks?
I just dont know what to do. Im worried that if i dont find out what it is, its a potential death sentence for her.
