Kid goat with seizures--interesting case

I raise goats, and another goat breeder just told us about a newborn doe (female) goat. Here's her story. I apologize that it's so long, but I'm curious to get feedback and this is background information. After I read it, I thought of Nux vomica. Nothing else seemed to match the symptoms quite as well, but I couldn't find anything that had the SRP of being bright and alert after a seizure.

'I have a doe and buck kid born yesterday morning to a doe from a grade alpine line that I’ve had for almost ten years. Due to grandbabies visiting and other distractions, I wasn’t paying attention, didn’t stall the doe up the night before, and discovered she’d kidded outside in foul conditions that morning. The buck kid had muddy legs but was up and had eaten. The doe kid was on her side, very cold, in a spasm with head flung back and eyes blaring. I grabbed the kids, took them inside and put them in warm water in the bath tub. The doe kid seemed to be clocking out, but once warmed up she was able to take a couple of ounces of colostrum within 15 minutes. She didn’t stand right away, but I put that down to her stressful birthing, etc. I got them under a heat lamp and kept feeding 4-6 ounces of good warm colostrum every couple of hours.

The doe kid was bright-eyed and perky, seemed to be coming along nicely, but rather than becoming more steady as the hours went by, she remained very shakey. Then she began to spasm: she would be flat on her side, legs out stiff, head pulled to one side or the other. I could try to stand her up, and she would seem to pull to one side or the other, legs crossing, back roaching. This was all very alarming, to say the least. I would put her back under the light, and she might spasmodically dig her nose into the bedding, or raise her head in a normal manner and just look around. In between these “spells”, she would stand, look around alertly, and lie down in a normal position. Also she kept eating, more and more eagerly.

So this morning, when I checked on these baby kids, both were lying under the heat lamp. The little doe was in a normal position, legs tucked under her, head up and looking around. I came back by the pen and she was standing up. Then she went into spasms, could not stand, head pulling to the side, legs stiff. Throughout the day as I checked on her (many, many times as I was working in the milking parlor all day) She would be alternately in complete spasm and then seem totally normal except a little more shakey than a 24hr old kid should be. She took her bottles, no problem.

By milking time last night, the kid was in horrible spasms, her head flexing severely to her chest, eyes about to pop, legs extended. She continued like this for over an hour, crying pitifully most of the time. I was milking, but would stop and try to readjust her to make her more comfortable, etc. Folks, I'm no bleeding heart, pretty pragmatic about my animals at this point, so it didn;t take me long to decide to end her suffering rather than let this go on. But I was trying to finish the milking first. I fed her brother, but decided not to do anything more that might stimulate her to more spasms, and didn't feed her. After another hour---during which the spasms relaxed and she just lay flat, seeming to rest but still crying---I decided that she might be going over the rainbow bridge but she was going with a full stomach, so I fed her. Then I went back to clean up, and came back to check her about 15 minutes later.

She was standing up, bright-eyed, perky, taking tottery steps, wagging her little tail like a normal kid. I couldn't believe my eyes because she'd seemed so much worse. This morning, she was curled up under the heat lamp with her brother, stood to take her bottle, then went into a 90min session of spasms. After that, she was up, trying to bounce around with her brother.

I've given her selenium (1/4ml mu-se orally---out of bo-se), put baking soda in the bottle just in case. Thiamine and sugar have been suggested and I'll be dosing her with them. I don't have access to anti seizure meds, but plan to contact my vet. Even though the sessions of spasms seem worse, she takes the bottle lustily and seems stronger overall. I'm overwhelmed with curiosity to see how this turns out.'