I saw his picture on their Facebook page when they were posting about babies and fell in love. We drove over a day or two later and bought him, but waited to bring him home until both of my girls had kidded. He needed company of his own kind.
He is now just over two months old (born May 15). I went out to the barn Monday morning to do my usual milking and barn chores, and found him very, very sick. I thought he was going to die any minute, literally. I spent three days nursing him. I gave him CDT vaccine (should have had C&D antitoxin, but I couldn't find any. All the mail-order sources were sold out, even.), Nutri-Drench (liquid vitamins), ProBios (probiotics). He was staggering around, could barely walk, and seemed incapable of drinking, so I gave him goat milk with an oral syringe. I gave him a dose of long-acting antibiotic in case he had something that would help, but also because I was worried about him aspirating the milk and developing pneumonia. I gave multiple doses of Nutri-Drench and another dose of ProBios the next day. I was worried about going out to the barn to check on him, afraid I'd find him dead. By Wednesday morning I was seeing slight improvement - he was drinking water from a bucket, and nibbling at his hay, but was still off-balance and staggering, and seemed unable to drink from a bottle.
Hubby went in to check on him Wednesday afternoon and said Picasso came bouncing over to him. It did not seem possible, but I went in to check, and he was almost completely recovered, almost as suddenly as he took sick. Praise God! I took this video this evening to show him bright, alert and happy to see me, impatient for his bottle!
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