Baby is here!

[Mzyla]

That's a real nice baby! So glad for you that everything ended positively!

 

[mama24]

I am so so sad. Cream died early this morning. Here is a picture of Cream taken 2 days ago at about 4 weeks old. He was a big beautiful buckling.

He went down so fast there wasn't much we could do. He and his mom got onto the chicken feed 2 days ago when my kids left the gate open. Mama was very bloated and had terrible diarrhea yesterday. I kept walking her around to keep her moving. He was laying around a lot, but was still nursing and seemed ok, so I really thought he was ok and wasn't sick like mama was. He's just never been very active like our doeling is, so I thought that was just normal for him. His belly never got bloated, and he didn't have diarrhea. Last night, he got so weak he couldn't stand and was just lying on the ground quivering and screaming. I held him upright for a while and tried to prop him up, but he was completely limp and breathing very rapidly. I knew he was dying, but with it being after 10PM, there just wasn't much I could do. I gave him a shot of antibiotics b/c my dh wanted me to, just to feel like we were doing SOMETHING I guess. I knew it wouldn't help. I am going to keep CDT antitoxin on hand from now on, even though my goats are all vaccinated and my goat friends all tell me they've never had it work. I'm going to TSC today as soon as they open. At least I will have something on hand that might possibly help. I'm so so sad. Mama was chewing her cud this morning, so I think she's feeling better healthwise. But she was lying next to him and kept calling to him, then got up and seemed to be trying to get him to get up. That was 2 hours ago and I still haven't moved the body and I really need to milk her. I'm just so devastated and I'm having a hard time getting back down there to deal.

 

[20kidsonhill]

so sorry.

 

[Blue Dog Farms]

You did everything you could do. Theres just no way of knowing some times whats going on until its too late. So sorry you had to go through this.

 

[MysticScorpio82]

I am so sorry for your loss

 

[nana_4708]

So sorry I had one born today it is a little girl and twin boys on May 11.wish your little one had made it.

 

[GreenEarth]

So very sorry for your loss

 

[Trigoat&pbrlover]

So sad, I'm so sorry for your loss

 

[bonbean01]

Awwww...so very sorry

 

[Missy]

So sorry for your loss . I lost my doe 2 weeks ago and her kid. It is hard. Give momma extra love.