Is Esther depressed??

It has been two days since Zippy died......Esther is pathetic. She bleats far more than normal and has gone off the bottle. Won't even take the nipple in her mouth.

Can goats become that depressed and lonely or is she getting sick?? She doesn't appear ill...no bloating, nothing.

 

She is drinking water from her water bowl and is nibbling at the pellet. I took her on a walk and she ate some grass along the way and wagged her little tail the whole time. When I put her back in the pen, the bleating began in earnest again. I really do think she is depressed. She tried making friends with the cat but the cat wasn't so interested.

I want to get her a friend but I don't want to get just "any old goat" either. I am SOOO hoping I can find a female ND or Pygmy for her this weekend!!!

 

OK - I know goats need a buddy but this is bordering on the ridiculous! :roll:

She is physically A-OK....I even took her temp. to make double sure that fever wasn't an issue in her not taking the bottle.

Is it possible that her vaccination had this side-effect on her??????? She had it two days ago..,

 

Well, we are getting another doeling this afternoon. The crappy part is that I don't know if Esther will make it that long....honest to goodness she acts like she is going to die. She won't walk around her pen...just lies there and occasionally gets up and moves.

She drank some of her bottle this morning but isn't even nibbling at the grass or hay. She seems "floppy" to me if that makes any sense and not "steady"....her pupils are larger than normal. No fever, no foaming, no bloating. Normal urine...normal poop.

I swear, if Esther dies, I am SOOO done with goats. This is kicking my butt emotionally, not to mention what it's doing the the children. How I WISH I knew what to do between now and later this afternoon!

 

I have brought her inside.....she won't play or run or do ANYTHING but lay there and look like she's on deaths door. ARGH!!!!!

I just gave her some rehydration, just in case since she isn't drinking much from the bottle. We will see if that perks her up. I am going to go ahead and bring her in again...I thought I'd try her near the other animals and see what happened. Nothing.

I am SOOOO much better at figuring out human kids than caprine kids!!!!!

 

When my sister and I got back from getting her doeling, Esther was dead. My son called me from the house when I was on my way back. I've no idea why my doelings died.....the only thing I can figure is that they ate something that was bad for them but what????

Not sure where to go from here.......LOVE little goats........don't want another disaster.......