I do my absolute best to keep my animals happy and healthy, but giving birth is risky for any species. Yesterday one of my goats had a stuck baby. There are no vets within 100km who work on goats, and haven't been for years, and no vet would sell me oxytocin without being a patient. I wasn't sure that would help anyway. After trying to to help the birth in every way I could for few hours, the goats didn't survive.
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@sundogplanets Turns out my 19yo daughter who is a vet student is also Canadian. Since we discovered this (thank you lost generations law suit) she is now keen to spend time working in Canada when she graduates. So you never know, there might be a vet closer in a few years!
@sundogplanets I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure it's tough to experience that as a farmer.
@sundogplanets Sorry to hear that. Raising animals has its rough moments. The good moments are more numerous, though. And by all accounts, you seem like someone making lots of good moments on your farm.
@sundogplanets I’m sorry. You did what you could. Your goats are lucky to have you.
@sundogplanets I once patiently bottle fed a newborn foal. But it never stood up and died soon anyway.
@sundogplanets frustrating about the lack of vet help. We do the best we can, but sometimes it doesn’t work out. Been there, know what it’s like. ❤️🩹🫂
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I am so sorry. What an awful thing to have to deal with.
It is the main thing I would struggle with when we have our smallholding and start having animals.
Poor goats. 😢
🫂 I'm so sorry to hear.
@sundogplanets this is, I think, important to share, and thank you for doing so.
@sundogplanets <sadness> It happens.
@sundogplanets sorry for your losses. Thank you for sharing your goat joys and sadnesses. Thinking about you all up on prairies today.
@sundogplanets sorry for you. So bad when you can't get help. But you did what you could. I've been there with our pets...
