If You Have Livestock You Have Dead Stock

Last week we lost one of our baby goats. As heartbreaking as it is, it’s reality of life on a farm. We do our best to learn from our mistakes so we can provide the best care possible for the animals entrusted to our care.

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If you’ve watched our channel lately you’re probably aware that recently we brought a couple of new goats home to the farm. Eden and her young doeling came to us from our friends at Sage and Stone Homestead. We have enjoyed them both immensely in their short time with us and we were so excited to have them as a part of our herd.

We took the little doeling to the vet for disbudding (removal of horn buds); a pretty routine procedure. She was doing fine until the next day when her condition started to rapidly decline. Within a few hours she had passed
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We were shocked at how fast this had transpired and we began wracking our brains trying to come up with a reason for this. Was she sick and we didn’t know it? Was the disbudding botched? It was impossible to tell from looking at her. Thankfully Heather (Sage and Stone Homestead) volunteered to perform a necropsy. At the conclusion of that we are reasonably confident that enterotoxemia is the culprit.

It was incredibly sad to lose this baby. We had grown attached to that goat in a short time and it was heartbreaking for the plans and dreams we had for her to be dashed in a moment. However, a harsh reality of farm life is death. No one likes losing an animal. We pour our heart and soul into these creatures and we take the responsibility of their care seriously. Our goal each and every day is to learn and get better, in not only this but in all other things, too.

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⭐ Watch Heather and Megan perform a baby goat necropsy here (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT):
🐐 Their Baby Goat Died. Learning Why Helps Us Both!: https://youtu.be/5L5jO-K3Y4k

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