purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[purplequeenvt]

Rikki passed away this morning. She was having trouble breathing and by the time the vet got here she was gone. The vet felt really bad about not getting here sooner, but he is sure that he wouldn't have been able to help her regardless. I decided to have him do a necropsy to figure out COD.

She had lots of edema in her lungs and a touch of pneumonia (which he didn't hear any signs of yesterday) as well as some signs of sepsis. He isn't sure if the foot problem caused the sepsis, the foot was a sign of the sepsis, or if they are totally unrelated. There is also a chance that she had a reaction to the antibiotic that he gave her yesterday. He took heart, liver, and lung samples for testing and is going to look into the possibility of a drug reaction.

I'm pretty upset right now. Next to my old man, Shadow, who passed away last fall, Rikki was the best llama I've ever owned.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Oh no!!!!!! I am soooo sorry PQVT! What a shocker and a terrible loss. I thought she was out of the woods with the abscess taken care of.

 

[CocoNUT]

 

[Queen Mum]

I am so sorry to hear about your loss. Sometimes an infection can just be a silent killer... I hope it wasn't the medicine...

 

[purplequeenvt]

I skinned her so that I could keep her beautiful pelt as a memory and I found that the infection went all the way up her leg. I don't know how/where she got the infection, but it looks like she'd had it for a while. Llamas are so darn stoic. They look and act completely normal and then they are suddenly dead.

 

[purplequeenvt]

My cold seems to be a fast moving one which is nice. I hate the ones that drag on and on and on. :/

It is Lyd's day of local home school group classes. I had to feed everyone all by myself and it took me 3 hours! It normally takes 45 minutes to an hour and that was with cracking ice. I kept having to sit down for a few minutes and I also did several other chores like trimming the goatie girls' feet and taking down the lambing jugs. I also managed to get a few pictures.

I turned all the little Shetland babies loose on the world today. They were racing around the paddock with their mothers running along behind hollering at them.

Freyja

Signe

Signe and Monty

Breeja

Kitty

Bottoms up!! (Breeja)

Naughty Vladimir is on the WRONG side of the fence AGAIN!

Ivan

Lamb races!

Nigel was quite put out that there was a chicken in his crate....

 

[Queen Mum]

I skinned her so that I could keep her beautiful pelt as a memory and I found that the infection went all the way up her leg. I don't know how/where she got the infection, but it looks like she'd had it for a while. Llamas are so darn stoic. They look and act completely normal and then they are suddenly dead.

My wonderful Mama is like that. Stoic, quiet and much loved. You will have her pelt and can remember her forever for all the joy she brought to you. I hope that helps you... And I hope that the work on the farm helps you also. Those babies are so cute. Vladimir is such a little nut!

You bring so much happiness with all your pictures to all of us. I wish we could return that to you to help you with your sadness right now...

 

[jodief100]

So sorry for your loss. The lamb babies are just so cute! They really cheered me up out of my funk.

 

[elevan]

You really should share some of your pics in the picture of the week thread. You take beautiful shots.

 

[purplequeenvt]

You really should share some of your pics in the picture of the week thread. You take beautiful shots.

I do post a couple there occasionally.