B Vitamins, especially Vitamin B12 and B1 (or Thiamine), are extremely important to your goat’s health. A healthy goat will produce all the necessary B Vitamins in its rumen and excrete any excess through the urine daily.
If your goat is ill, particularly if it is off feed, it will not produce the amount of b vitamins needed.Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) is needed for carbohydrate metabolism and for neural activity.
Thiamine is produced in your goat’s body and when normal rumen function is compromised so it thiamine production resulting in a condition called Goat Polio.
Goat Polio- usually caused by a diet too rich in carbohydrates- will use up all the Thiamine in your goat’s system causing a near fatal deficit if not caught in time.Treating with Thiamine injections every 6-12 hours is essential in your goat making a full recovery.
Symptoms of Thiamine Deficiency in Goats:
Staggering and off-balance due to swelling in the brain
Convulsions
Visual and Motor disturbances
Circling
Rigid neck and muscle spasms
Vitamin B12 is essential in treating an anemic goat.If your goat is off feed and showing other signs of anemia, vitamin B12 injections should be given daily until the symptoms begin to improve and then weekly for quite a while.
Vitamin B12 is essential in the rebuilding of red blood cells.B Vitamins are all water soluble and any that are not used will be excreted, therefore the margin of safety is very wide and overdosing is hard to do.
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