Someone local to me recently lost a doe. She thinks that it was due to possible uterine rupture after having to do heavy duty manipulation to deliver a large kid in a bad position.
How long does it generally take for a goat to die from a uterine rupture and what are signs that you could be dealing with this?
I had this happen to a doe a few years ago when I had one kid with his head turned back and the other coming down on top of him. Something just suddenly felt weird when I was working on the doe and she cried loudly. I promptly took her to the vet, who delivered the kids cesarean. She said the uterus was so badly torn, she would need to be spayed in order to survive. I chose to have the vet put her down. What the vet told me is she would have died of a massive infection within the next day or two if the uterus wasn't removed.
It can depend on the extent of the tear. While many smaller tears can take a couple days for the doe to die, a large tear can kill a doe in a very short time; often within a couple hours or less.
What would take a few weeks to kill a doe? My mom had one last year that took about a month to die. Mom said she wasn't right from kidding on and didn't milk well. Just slowly got more and more lethargic and not interested in eating.
What would take a few weeks to kill a doe? My mom had one last year that took about a month to die. Mom said she wasn't right from kidding on and didn't milk well. Just slowly got more and more lethargic and not interested in eating.
The only one I have had didn't rip where she bleed immediatly into her uterus. I fed the kids, went back to tend to her and she was asleep...not, she was leaning up against the wall and was dead as a door nail. When I cut her open to see what had happened she had a belly full of blood and a rip in the side of her uterus. Weirdly her uterus was also very thin in that section.
They can rip a uterine vessel and die while you watch, they can get infections in the uterus which can take weeks to kill them with no rise in temperature.
A rip in the cervic can be repaired, it is highly unlikely you could save a doe with ripped uterus unless you were already performing a C section. The ones I know of and mine were dead before we really knew what had actually happened. I certainly would leave her future reproductive health a big question, since tears are not surgical cuts that heal well. Vicki
In this case it was 3 or 4 days later. They found her out in the pasture, dead. She also described that she just wasnt really herself, didnt really want to eat, etc, so I wondered if it wasnt really hypocalcemia rather than a uterine rupture.
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