Poor Abigail

Abigail is our Boer/Nubian mix pictured below with her baby. She was five years old and she was a FF (First Freshener). After the baby was born I noticed her back end had not closed up properly. Well 4 hours later it did. She was weak but seemed like she would be okay. She never delivered the placenta and kept pushing and pushing. We gave her antibiotic to help any possible infection there may be. We also gave her Vitamin B Complex for appetite the next day. She never got an appetite and started paying less and less attention to her baby. We got home on Sunday when I noticed she had really gone down hill. She could not stand up and had to be dragged. Dragging a 130 pound goat is not very easy especially when she is in her house. Meaning she would have to be picked up then dragged. Then her back end turned black and I think it may have been starting to rot. She would not survive and possible way of getting the placenta out. I was feeling for a baby being stuck like I was up inside her there was just nothing there not even any placenta or anything. I felt her udder because I figured we might as well get her milk out before we shoot her for the baby. And it felt like a baby in there. Like it was coming breech. It felt like a head. So we shoot her and were trying to get her opened up in 4 minutes just in case the kid should be alive we would get it out in time. Well it was just bad mastitis which she probably got because she was so weak that she couldn't stand up. We buried her and it was just awful. There was nothing more we could have done but it is still sad to see your goatie die.