OneFineAcre Spring 2015 Kidding Thread - Seperating and weaning babies 1st cut of alfalfa

[OneFineAcre]

After a depressing morning, some happy news.
When Maurine got home from taking the quad that died to the state lab for necropsy, Daisy had just delivered twins. A doe and a buckling. Both big and strong. She sent these to me, I don't even know which is which.
Big looking kids too.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Congrats! Like the colors!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Sorry about the quad

Congrats on 2 healthy kids!

 

[HoneyDreameMomma]

Sorry about your little one. Happy to see you got a couple more big, healthy kids.

 

[bonbean01]

Glad for twins to help with the loss of the quad....they look great!!! Congrats

 

[Southern by choice]

Cute Cute Cute!

 

[norseofcourse]

Sorry about the little one I know you did all you could. Hope you find out what was going on, and congrats on the twins!

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

I'm also sorry to hear about losing one of your baby goats! It must be so hard to lose them!
Congrats on the baby boy and girl!! They're cute! Love Daisy's coloring as well!

 

[OneFineAcre]

We got a call from the lab yesterday afternoon with a preliminary finding that has to be confirmed with lab work.

We are feeling pretty bad now, because something could have been done, and we feel like we really messed up.

They said she had White Muscle disease which most of you know is caused by a deficiency in either Selenium or Vitamin E. An injection of BO-SE probably when we first noticed she was off could have made a difference.

I've read a lot of people on here recommend giving an injection of BO-SE with weak kids. We've never really dealt with a weak kid and honestly we didn't even think about it. It never even crossed our mind.

Our entire herd gets a BO-SE injection every year, and when we had herd health check done this past fall we did a mineral analysis on a sample of our animals an none showed a deficiency. Coleus was not one of the animals we sampled. Vet said the fact that she is such a hard working goat could be a factor. 4 freshenings, Triplets, Quads, Triplets, Quads that's a lot of babies and she makes a lot of milk.

Our BO-SE is passed expiration. Maurine is meeting the vet this afternoon to get a new bottle. He recommended we go ahead and give all of our animals an injection.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

A very wise person once said that "a mistake is only a mistake if you fail to learn from it".

As animal lovers we tend to beat ourselves up when something goes wrong and we feel like we could have done something to prevent it. It was a learning experience and something you will never forget.