Goat-O-Rama Kids of 2023

[Nanno]

We lost Perdy tonight. She was bright and bouncy yesterday morning, but by late afternoon she was feeling off and wasn't interested in milk. She spent the night barely moving and when I got her up this morning she was only 98° and could barely stand. I'm not sure if it might have been floppy kid syndrome. Because of the broken leg, she'd been locked in a shelter with mama a lot so she perhaps had more milk and less exercise than she normally would have. I gave her some SQ fluids, electrolytes and baking soda, but it wasn't enough. I had the vet out this evening and she administered more fluids, bicarbonate, and dextrose via IV drip but it wasn't enough. She passed away around 9:30 this evening and we're just heartbroken. She was such a sweet baby and so full of life. In 10 years of breeding goats, this is the first one we've lost after a successful birth so it's a pretty hard blow. And especially hard because that broken leg was healing magnificently well and we were planning to let her out of confinement this weekend. We can't look forward to that celebratory moment now and that's hard to process. At least Pongo appears to be absolutely fine, healthy, and full of energy. Whatever hit his sister is not affecting him and let's hope it stays that way.