So upset! Lost buckling... disbudding

Oh, so sorry! Really sorry :sniffle

Maybe his heart just stopped? Perhaps he had a little defect or perhaps the adrenalin rush was too much. Again, so sorry.

 

Could the little buckling's air supply been cut off while he was being held down? Perhaps he was suffocated.

 

Sorry about your loss. I know it is so disappointing and disheartening. I once lost a doe that I had disbudded. She was a bit weak when born and I should have waited a little longer for her to gain strength. I went ahead and disbudded her and she died. I told this to my Vet and he quickly told me to toughen up and get over it, that in my business the horns have to come off - and to lose one occasionally was part of it.

Well, that is the only kid that I have lost from disbudding in the past 15 years.

 

We had a close call with a doeling a year o0r so back...I think it was Anson's twin. We disbudded, let her go, she struggled to her feet, fell over, limp unresponsive. I panicked but in a minute she was 'waking up'. I think that when I held her head I usually grab them around the muzzle and I think that I was not allowing her to breathe and she passed out. Had it been longer then I could see the end result being death. I dont know, obviously, but I am so sorry.

 

I have to agree with the heart problem.
This much stress at one time could have caused it. I've had them faint (for lack of a better word) but usually I just drop them to the floor and they come to. No, it's not from 5' up...I'm sitting on a bucket. I've had several do this and each time they "pass out" I drop them. Maybe it's the jar that brings them around. But to die?? Never.

Brain swells can take as little as several hrs. to 24 hrs. for you to see problems. Not immediately.
Kaye

 

So sorry for your loss.

Autumn

 

I am so sorry for you loss. :down It is harder when it is a goat that we have big plans for. :sniffle

This spring I and a friend were disbudding a buck kid and when I went to get him out of the disbudding box he was limp as a dish rag I did c p r on him and got him back.
I think he hung him self in the box and was cutting the blood supply and or air off from getting oxygen to his brain.
I have to say I like them making a lot of fuss now I know they are still alive. :/
I have seen adult goats go down tied or on a stand.
when blood gets cut of and there not getting oxygen to there brain and then they pass out and get hung and it is hard to left a big goat up to get there head out. :down
I have been lucky and just had a couple Boer goats pass out and now I like the quick release collars.
Fran

 

So sorry for your loss.

 

I'm so sorry! Wishing you the best from now on.

 

So sorry Lynn, how horrible

 

:down :down :down
Probably will never happen again at your place.

Whim

 

So sorry for your loss.

 

Sorry for your loss.