He was wormed, fluked, supplemented , drenched ,vaccinated etc. the same as the rest on a regular basis, no signs of bottle jaw , lethargy, or any other untoward symptoms of illness of any sort, he was his normal self.
He was eating his hay and hard feed as normal literally a couple of minutes before , just in the time it took me to leave his pen and set up the hosepipe , I checked his airway for obstruction- nothing. besides I would have heared him choking. just collapsed on his knees and belly like he'd been shot. ( no sign of that either). Not going to give a vet money to say "your goats dead " "that's £200 quid for my diagnosis".
If you have livestock - you have deadstock . money won't bring him back.
We did everything we could do ,and should do to look after him , he is just an unexplained death .
Our landlord went to feed his sheep on the steep ground above our house an hour later, and as usual they all came running to the pellets, in the rush to get there one of his ewes stumbled ,fell and broke her neck then continued to roll down the hill , she ended up dead at his feet when she stopped rolling . These are normal agricultural losses you learn to live with , life goes on.
Topic: Unaccounted death + life (Read 3840 times)
