[Ag-eq] A day of horrors

[Susan Roe via Ag-eq]

Hi jewel,

So sorry to hear about your animals.  I hope you can get your rabit out from 
under the house.  He sure does seem to be a slippery bunny.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net

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To: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>; "Agricultural and Equestrean 
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Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] A day of horrors


>
> 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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