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goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2015, 08:34:34 am »
She died yesterday tea time.  At the vets.  Very upsetting, she was the favourite as she was hand reared and she trusted me completely.

Took her to vets again yesterday (she was leaking at the nose) and had to leave her there, they did xrays and saw a blockage - vet thought it looked like gravel, so they sluiced her and a lot of liquid came out and she immediately looked and felt much better so they left her in the stables for a bit.  Xrayed her again and did the same but obviously she was too weak to cope with a second treatment and when vet checked on her in the stables again she had died.  Feel so bad I wasn't with her, she was just 2 and would have been frightened.

Thanks for all your concerns and replies everyone, tas still great as ever.  :-*
registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #16 on: April 14, 2015, 08:53:46 am »
Oh Goosepimple how awful for you and her  :hug:
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

Susannah

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Pencaitland
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2015, 11:02:30 am »
Oh no I am so sorry for you and your family, I have only just read this and my heart goes out to you.
Jacob sheep, Shetland cows, Pygmy goats, Chinese geese, Khaki Campbell ducks.

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2015, 11:54:16 am »
Oh I am so sorry.

mojocafa

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Angus
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #19 on: April 14, 2015, 02:58:29 pm »
Ohhhh nooooo. 


You did your absolute best for her, don't beat yourself up too much. 
pygmy goats, gsd, border collie, scots dumpys, cochins, araucanas, shetland ducks and geese,  marrans, and pea fowl in a pear tree.

Mays

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2015, 04:02:49 pm »
so sorry to this this  :-[

goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2015, 07:43:29 pm »
Thanks all, very much.

registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #22 on: April 15, 2015, 12:28:13 am »
So sad for you that after all you and the vet had done, she didn't make it.  :hug: :hug:

Treud na Mara

  • Joined Mar 2014
  • East Clyh, Caithness
  • Living the dream in Caithness
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #23 on: April 15, 2015, 12:59:09 am »
So sorry for your trouble. Thank you for sharing with us anyway.  :bouquet:
With 1 Angora and now 6 pygmy goats, Jacob & Icelandic sheep, chooks, a cat and my very own Duracell bunny aka BH !

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #24 on: April 15, 2015, 02:59:53 pm »
So sorry, we were all with you hoping.  :hug: :bouquet:
maybe it's a lesson for all of us to insist on an x ray in similar situations?
did they look to see what the blockage was?

shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #25 on: April 16, 2015, 08:22:17 am »
 :bouquet:

Steph Hen

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Angus Scotland.
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #26 on: April 16, 2015, 05:17:24 pm »
What a shame  :'(

mart6

  • Joined Sep 2014
  • Notts / Yorkshire border
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #27 on: April 16, 2015, 05:52:31 pm »
Sorry for your loss. Some times things are just taken out of your hands.
You must be devastated followed  the story from yourr first post had everything crossed hoping it would work out. You did everything possible and more.
RIP 

gillsta

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • Methlick Aberdeenshire
  • Gillsta
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Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #28 on: April 24, 2015, 04:24:48 pm »
So very sorry to hear this. I have been following this topic and really do feel for you. x
Showing and breeding Pygmy Goats
Always room for another goat as he will never notice

goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: HELP for pygmy goat please
« Reply #29 on: May 07, 2015, 09:04:44 am »
Sorry, bit late in coming back to this.

If anything learnt here it was that I should have acted sooner with xrays etc, it wasn't a sudden thing so I expected it to clear up but when an animal is weak over illness of a couple of weeks it isn't strong enough to cope with the aggressive gut sluicing and being in a house (vets on site stable in this case) alone.

Will remember that the next time (sadly).

Thanks all.
registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

 

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