Panic

We lost our baby goat on Wednesday, which was extremely depressing. But it also put us in panic mode because we still have two goats that are pregnant and we really don't want to lose any more babies. That lead to hours on the Internet trying to find out why baby died in the first place. From the signs and symptoms we think she got a type of pneumonia. She most likely got it late Tuesday night and by the time we got to her it was too late. So one of the web sites I found talked about a vaccine that you can give to the pregnant mama's that will give the babies a passive immunity to pneumonia, at least certain kinds, and it is something that IFA carries. Most likely because that you can also use it for cows. If you know the area where I live, goats are not the main livestock and a lot of stores barely carry anything for them. So we will try and see if this works. Hopefully we can save the rest of the babies. The articles also state that summertime babies can be as bad as wintertime babies due to the temperature changes. So next time we breed, we are going to aim for April.