Last week King, our Barbados wether (almost three months old and a bottle baby) started in with severe scours. I called the vet and he had me give him four doses of biosol 12 hours apart. By Saturday night he was also having an occasional barking cough (particularly after having a bottle) and some yellow nasal discharge (not a lot, but some). Thursday, when the diarrhea first started (I forgot to say we also had a fecal done at the vet right away, and it was negative for any and all parasites) he was feeling hot and was somewhat lethargic and was not drinking all of his bottle. He seemed to feel a lot better over the weekend but the diarrhea was still as bad as ever (brown, liquid, mucous-y). Yesterday his stool was starting to gain just a BIT of form and he is definitely feeling fine, except for the occasional barking cough and the nasal discharge. He's playing, hopping, attention seeking (can you tell he lives in the upstairs bathroom?) etc. The vet prescribed two injections for me to give either sub cu or im today...I gave him the first one earlier today. It says "Nu Flor" and I'm not really sure what it is cause I didn't get a chance to talk to him- he left the med for us to pick up before he went out on calls. I think he was suspecting he might be getting pneumonia Anyone else experienced anything like this? We do have two other sheep and five goats- all feeling fine, no nasal discharge, and great little sheep and goat berries. He isn't kept with them but he does have contact with my outdoor clothes and shoes.
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