Goat Kid Swollen Joints

I have a one week old doeling who is limping and has a visibly swollen knee.

Goat kid swollen joints. Usually the route of infection is through the navel or any wound. It is a syndrome in which the newborn kid of the goat appears healthy at birth but. How do the kids get joint ill.

The twisted carpal joints were swollen. In addition one goat kid was stiff legged. Joint ill usually occurs in angora goat kids under a month old and results in the development of swollen joints lameness and deaths.

The common signs include the stiffness of the muscle lameness swollen joints in coordination blindness depression and death of the goats. Your goat could have cae but will need to be tested for it. Goat kids originated from a farm where sheep llamas shepherd dogs cows and horses were kept with goats.

The more commonly affected joints include the carpus shoulder hock and stifle. With joint ill more than one joint is hot swollen and painful. Areas of pneumonia generally appeared as small grey foci in the apical areas of diaphragmatic lobes.

Anyway one of the kids 6 months old is well happy eating etc but all of her ankles are massively swollen another kid has two swollen ankles hinds i ve looked in the books and cae seems to be indicated except that joint swelling with cae seems to be knees and hips rather than ankles and the doe kid with four swollen feet has a twin. There is no particular treatment for this disease. My goat had a kid 2 days ago on saturday march 16th between 8 30 9 am.

Baby goat limping knee swollen discussion in health wellness started by libelula feb 27 2016. During the external examination of carcasses crusts and discrete hyperemia were seen on the earlobes beneath the ear tag as well as swollen joints. Generally there is a fever but no reduction in appetite.