My daughter found her favorite Angora buckling dead this morning. We are all upset. He was fine yesterday. We think maybe something got them all stirred up in the night and he got trampled. There has been a very large raccoon around that we have been trying to trap, maybe he startled them. They were all in the barn. A very sad day for us. Sigh...

-- Jean (schiszik@tbcnet.com), May 03, 2000

Answers

I'm really sorry that happened. You all must feel horrible. It is sad to lose something special like that. Denise

-- Denise (jphammock@earthlink.net), May 03, 2000.

Jean, how sad. Sometimes they don't even need to be startled to suffocate or trample the little ones. I hope your daughter is ok. Gerbil

-- Gerbil (ima_gerbil@hotmail.com), May 03, 2000.

I'm so sorry, I'm the one who feed my baby geese hem lock & it killed two of them! It is so hard to loose our babies! Sonda in Ks.

-- Sonda (sgbruce@birch.net), May 03, 2000.

I'm sorry to say this is a sad part of homesteading .So far this year I lost 3 calves , 2 lambs and 2 pigglets .All were from the auction barn and who knows where or what they came from .It doesn't make it any easier though.I did all I know how to and still lost them .Time will help heal.

-- Patty Gamble (fodfarms@slic.com), May 03, 2000.

Thanks for all your kind words. My daughter is okay, she knows that this is life on the farm, but it's a big loss for her. Just sharing with you all helps so much.

-- Jean (schiszik@tbcnet.com), May 05, 2000.

I'm sorry for your loss.

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), May 08, 2000.