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Tigerlily is aborting her pregnancy. I was gone to a horse competition over the weekend and was greeted with the news when I got home last night. She started leaking pink goo sometime yesterday afternoon and was still at it all night. She still hasn't passed the kid(s). I was going to run her to the vet today but the goat vets were both off duty. She seemed fine all day and she never went into labor. I saw her pushing a little this evening and finally about an hour ago she started to grind her teeth. I went in for an exploratory check and she's only dilated to about the size of a quarter. Since she's not contracting she's not dilating. She's just leaking. I was able to feel the kid with the tips of my fingers--a little nose and mouth (I think) at the edge of the birth canal, but there's no way I can bring it out through that tiny hole. I'm going to run her in tomorrow. Hopefully they'll be able to give her something to induce a proper labor. I plan to have the fetus tested for any diseases that might have caused this. I smell no sign of infection and nothing looks abnormal about the discharge. She was due in exactly one month so there's no way the kid(s) would have been viable even if she'd delivered normally.
I've been worried about Tigerlily because she's been so scrappy for the past month. No one has been picking on her, but she's been picking fights with everyone else and deliberately crossing in front of goats higher than her on the pecking order. She wants to rank up but has chosen a bad time to do it. That's my best theory as to why this happened, but I'll have an abortion panel done to rule out anything more sinister. If she weren't a favorite I'd call it quits with her. I'll probably train her to drive this summer and she'll be a packgoat. She's big, strong, athletic, and loves having a job. We may try to breed her one more time next fall. Me and Phil especially are longing to see some Tigerlily babies! We're so discouraged over her losing this pregnancy. How much bad luck does one goat need?
I've been worried about Tigerlily because she's been so scrappy for the past month. No one has been picking on her, but she's been picking fights with everyone else and deliberately crossing in front of goats higher than her on the pecking order. She wants to rank up but has chosen a bad time to do it. That's my best theory as to why this happened, but I'll have an abortion panel done to rule out anything more sinister. If she weren't a favorite I'd call it quits with her. I'll probably train her to drive this summer and she'll be a packgoat. She's big, strong, athletic, and loves having a job. We may try to breed her one more time next fall. Me and Phil especially are longing to see some Tigerlily babies! We're so discouraged over her losing this pregnancy. How much bad luck does one goat need?