When you describe your goat, you should say
- if this goat is a buck (intact) or a wether(neutered)
- what his temperature is
- what you normally feed the goat, and anything he could have gotten into he shouldnt have
- Symptoms, including if he is peeing and pooping, and if these look normal
- age of the goat, not just how long you have had him
- Has the goat been immunized ? An exposure to other goats, sheep or deer that could have transmitted disease
- body condition ? ( weight) skinny, overweight ?
- Check him for lice
- Condition of his coat: shiny, dull, fading of color, normal, thinning (losing hair)
- Check over his body and hooves, feel along and look for any sore spots, injuries, lumps
- Checking the eye lid color is good thing to check
- Write down any changes lately to the goats environment and feed, if there are any.
neutered male goats that are fed grain can get a urinary blockage, not saying that is what you have, but you see there are many things that can happen so do see if he is peeing, or straining when he pees. Goats can eat something bad and get poisoned, etc.... so you need to talk to a vet either virtually on the facebook page or in person. Last july, no one was available and I had to drive one of our does 3 hours to the University vet school clinic
Generally hay cubes are not the best feed long term for rumen health as the fibers are short and chopped up, he would just need hay, and no grains (no goat pellets) and have a loose mineral and clean water.
A goat would only get bloat if it ate what it shouldnt have, typically too much grain -- goat "feed", pellets, are grain, they can have too much of this. The couple times I had goats get into the feed can, and get bloat, I had to have a vet come out
The above is a general list to think about to figure out what is wrong, if your goat actually has bloat, or not peeing, then that is the BIG issue, and not checking for body soreness, etc...
