[2bluefish]

My last doe kidded tonight, and I didn't catch it. She left one baby to die in the sack. He was a little replica of my herd sire.

First time I lost a baby. I'm pretty bitter about it! I know stuff happens, but it's hard to see.

 

[E.V. Lowi]

I'm so sorry.

 

[Chicky2]

((((((((((I'm sorry)))))))))))

I know how hard it is to lose an animal. I just had to put down a rabbit this morning. My mom lost a kid recently, because another doe stole a kid from a mama while she was cleaning off another. Then the stolen kid was abandoned.

 

[MamaMonica]

I'm so sorry for your loss

 

[2bluefish]

Thanks everyone - I needed the hugs. It is hard to see nature be cruel. The doe is just as happy as can be with the kid she looked after.

It's weird my other Nubian did the same thing - except I was there, and I got the kid out of the sack and brought it to her. She was just so caught up in delivering the second, she didn't pay any attention to the first. I thought at that time - wow, if I wasn't here would she just have left this one to die? Maybe this is just domestication - we interfer with survival of the fittest.

 

[Dillpicklechip]

That would be hard to see, for sure.

 

[crissei]

I'm so sorry.

One of my does always rejects her second kid. And she herself was the smallest of triplets!

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