[Ag-eq] A day of horrors

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Hi Jewel:

I'm so sorry to hear about your goat and your rabbit.  It always seems that bad
things happen all at once.  I hope the vet is able to find out what happened to
the goat.  A few years ago one of my mules suddenly died and the vets had no
idea why.  She was fairly young and healthy.  We never figured it out and it
still bothers me.

Good luck catching that rabbit; you are always having a rabbit adventure.  I
wonder if you could get a live trap.  I've used them for catching cats, so
maybe it would work for a rabbit.

Please keep us posted.

Nella




Quoting Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>:

> My remaining goat, Heidi died today in, precisely, the same way as her
> brother, Minstrel, did a week
> ago:  absolutely no sign that there is anything wrong and then:  WHOOSH:
> they are down and there
> seems nothing that can be done.
> I called the vet, but he didn't have any idea, but made some suggestions:  an
> infectious disease as
> the 2 goats had died within a few days of each other, salmonella or some
> such, but, personally, I
> think that it was my old nemesis of Clostridia, which is a
> naturally-occurring soil organism which,
> usually, is quite innocuous, and then, for some unknown reason, it goes manic
> and strikes at the
> speed of light and without any warning.
> The vet took a fecal sample which will be cultured and then he might be able
> to find out what it
> was/is.
> I have had goats die of gastro-enteritis which is caused by the C organism,
> but not for many years.
> When the vet came, Heidi's body temperature had dropped markedly, but on my
> last trip out to the
> barn to give her her next lot of dexalite, and found her dead:  she had died
> not long before I got
> out there, her temperature, judging from her nose and tongue, was normal:
> very strange!
> Not only did I lose Heidi, but my dog killed and eat one of my rabbits.  They
> had escaped: god knows
> how:  from there night shed and had come through into the backyard.  Guideon
> has been waiting since
> January for just such an opportunity and he took it, but Peter, the veteran
> escapee got away.  I
> don't know where he is now, but he was under the house.  I don't know how we
> are going to catch the
> little bastard, and I have to keep the dog on a long line until we do or I
> give up.
>
>          Jewel
>
>
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