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

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redtailgal said:
I'm so sorry.

I've been following this thread, this was just not what I expected.

I'm so sorry.

Dont know what else to say.

*hugs*
Thank you all for your very kind words. I hope you know how much it means to me.

Both the vet and I were blown away. I think it wasn't what anybody expected. There is some other universe where she had triplets and is fine. It just isn't this one.




To answer the other question it was a black and white paint male. I'm assuming you'd call it paint. Black head w/ coloring that ended just below the chin but ran down most of his back in a 4" stripe.




I think coffee and motrin and a visit from a cute baby girl are on the list for the day. I'll call dad shortly and he'll come out and get her. I feel like I got hit by a truck. When I wasn't the one trying to position I was the one holding her and at one point had her across my lap with her belly suspended in the middle trying to get more room by letting gravity stretch stuff out. Aneurysm be damned, we did our freakin best. I'm sorry to have had to give you all this news. I know how many people were following this. This outcome came as a shock to us all. I had put the vet on call earlier in the week when I felt "lots of legs" in case we had a tangle. It never even occurred to me that that many boney bits could come from one baby. It seriously felt like twins. She was just as astounded at his size. I am going to get a weight on him when we bury.
 

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Just reading now, That is horrible, I am so so sorry. Hugs from all of us here. How old did you say LOuise was? I knew she looked young in the photos, but hadn't really thought about her age. I hope you are taking care of yourself. :hugs
 

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She was 9/10 months old in May when we got her and she was already bred so just about a year old.




Dad's new barn is going in this week and the big digging machine thing is still there so the gods are at least making this part easier on me. She's going to go out near the pigs that were lost to the fire last winter. Going to go start loading her up and I'll get a weight on the boy. Thankfully the vet and and I got her tied up in a sheet so transportation will be a little easier. I know in my heart I did everything that it was in my power to do. A c-section would have been 2 hours away driving time and the vet agreed that she was borderline in shock already and didn't think it was a good option for her.

If you are in this position, we found that giving the banamine definitely lowered her pain level for a while and allowed her to rest and we think slowed her labor until the vet got there. She was feeling fewer of the baby sensations and so was pushing a LOT less. Just want to pass that along while I'm thinking of it.
 

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SuburbanFarmChic said:
She was 9/10 months old in May when we got her and she was already bred so just about a year old.
That is really young, but I don't need to tell you that. It was actually a passing thought one time when I was looking at her photos, I thought she looked really immature. So sorry. :hugs I am assuming the other girl is also that young.
 

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So sorry to hear the sad news. :( After keeping up with this thread, I kind of felt I knew her and was cheering her on. My heartfelt condolences for your loss. :(
 

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Just at 9lbs. Not black, a mahogany paint, couldn't tell last night. Solid as a freaking rock. He would have been amazing if he had made it. He was just way too big for her to handle. He had a brown stripe down his back and a spot or two on his legs.


The other doe that came w/ her is the same age. We thought about doing an ultrasound and lute but I think I am just going to lute her and we'll go from there. I am not going through this again if I can avoid it. Any baby that is smaller than it is going to get will be easier to pass than that monster was. It wasn't just his weight he was BIG. All his teeth were out, his front legs covered the width of 2.5 of my fingers.


Anyway. Probably the last big update on this. Heading out to go bury them. Everybody is loaded up in the van and they are digging the hole at dad's at about 10.



I know she was young but REALLY thought it was multiples and just in case I restricted grain until we got to the point that she started to drop weight faster than I like. I kept her on a maintenance dose for about the past 2-3 weeks but it wasn't a lot. There was a really fine line of her health, baby/ies health/growth, etc and clearly something went wrong somewhere. I should have ultrasounded them both early on and if I had known it was a single I would have aborted her. They just get too big for young does. When she went from 0-60 with size and udder growth though I was sure we had at least twins. It's easy to kick yourself after the fact though. We did at the time what we thought was the right thing. Now we have a lot more information and experience for next time.
 

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