Orphan Baby
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| Summer |
This week I lost Sky, my favorite doe.
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| Sky and her baby Summer. Photo from July 2025 |
At 8½ years of age Sky was my oldest doe and my best tempered. I really had no clue anything was wrong other than she had been quite picky about her feed for the past several weeks. That in itself isn’t all that unusual, but then she developed severe scours and stopped eating altogether. I had recently wormed my goats so I added a coccidiosis treatment, vitamin B shots, and Nutri-Drench. Two days later she was gone.
That in itself is incredibly hard, but worse, she left behind her 9-week-old doeling, Summer.
Baby Summer is able to eat well on her own, but I really, really like for them to be on their mother’s milk for at least 12 weeks or longer. They seem to grow so much better that way. Plus, things born or hatched of a mother need a mother. It’s the way things are. Summer is now an orphan.
One concern for lone kids is that they get picked on by the other goats. Fortunately, Sky was very firm that no one was allowed to mess with her baby, so they’ve accepted her. She gets butted around some, but mostly the others don’t bother her.
Only once has Summer cried for her mother and gone to look for her. I let her see and smell the body before we took it away. Somehow, animals have an understanding and acceptance of death. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t miss her mother, but she’s doing pretty well anyway. Being a single with no other kids her age around, she doesn’t have a playmate or companion. So she’s mostly by herself. She follows the other goats but stays out of their way.
I haven’t tried to give her a bottle because once kids are used to the teat they refuse it. I’m making sure she gets feed with extra protein and calcium.
I’m going to be sad about this for a long time.
Source: https://www.5acresandadream.com/2025/10/orphan-baby.html
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