Twas the week before Christmas....

[Mini Horses]

I am so very sorry. It happens to us all, no matter the animal. I've fed in morning only to find them gone a few hours later. You never know sometimes. It is one of hard parts of raising animals...death & often never knowing why.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

 

[DutchBunny03]

That's terrible! Had he been experiencing any abnormal behavior? How cold did it get at night?

 

[TAH]

Very sorry!

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

Sorry to hear you buck died!

 

[babsbag]

 

[samssimonsays]

I'm so sorry for the loss of your guy. it can happen but it is never easy!

That Christmas saying was very great however!

 

[Hopalong Causually]

DutchBunny03,
Absolutely no abnormal behavior at all. I have them in a heated small barn/shed and keep the temperature at 30 or above by thermostat.
It was 11 months old. I really regret that I hadn't bred him to any of my does and lost benefit of his genetics. But then, if his early death was due to a genetic defect, it's just as well that he didn't pass it on. We'll do the best we can with what we have left. I realize that it's all a process and things don't always go according to plan.

 

[DutchBunny03]

That's weird. These things happen, and of course they have causes, but it can almost impossible to find out why.

 

[Hopalong Causually]

I have been unable to post for some time but I wanted to let everybody know that I did discover what killed my buck. A close examination revealed that he had an exterior tumor on his abdomen so I think it's safe to say that cancer got him. At least it appears to not have been anything of a contagious nature that would threaten my other rabbits.