Since Ol Thelma kidded - Here's Louise --- Sad update. Really not good

[marlowmanor]

oh no...good luck getting it repositioned and delivered successfully.. Looking forward to updates and pictures.

 

[manybirds]

Vet is on the way. ONE baby. Bad position. can't get turned. Updating while getting banamine.

she's having them!

 

[jmsim93]

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

It is with heavy heart I'm giving news of the passing Louise and the absolute largest baby boy I have ever seen. His head was turned completely back and there was not room at all to turn him. We were still getting fetal movement about 5 min before we euthanised her and so we immediately cut. Unfortunately the sedation took the baby too and we were unable to revive him even with adrenaline.

He was of the size I would expect for a 2 week old goat. His head was like a baseball. There was just no way. When I saw those feet I knew.


She will be buried out at my dad's farm tomorrow. This has not been a good goat year.

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

So very, very sorry It's really hard to lose a goat...

 

[marlowmanor]

So sorry you lost Louise and the kid.

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

Knowing the size of this baby and that her friend the white doe was most likely bred to the same boer we are taking her in for an ultrasound this week. If she does not have multiples she will be immediately aborted. Thelma is miserable tonight and will get lots of hugs tomorrow.

THIS IS WHY YOU DON"T BREED YOUNG!!!! Sorry. I'm just furious with the previous owners. While I knew this was a risk when we got her I was hoping that with all the signs she had that she had multiples. I did NOT expect this to be one baby.

I saw her contracting at about 6:30 and had the vet on the phone by about 7 and they were here by 8. I made three attempts to get the head flipped and then the vet and I made an additional three attempts. Knowing that at this point her uterus was probably shot and how much pain she was in we opted to euthanize at about 9:20.


But please please, if you have the option, PLEASE let your does get to be of age to breed. We were fighting not only a big baby but a very small pelvis and uterus. And she had ZERO grain from about early August until around 2 weeks ago because she and another doe started to drop condition and then it was about a cup a day.

If her pelvis had been bigger and she was fully dilated we may have had a chance to pull the baby. I wasn't going to torture her any more and so I told her how sorry I was, that she was so sweet and that she would have been a great mama. What a day.

 

[freemotion]

I'm so sorry. You were very kind to end her suffering with such love.

 

[Roll farms]

I'm sorry.

 

[kstaven]

Sorry to hear this. You did what you could even as hard as it was.