First death... found something of interest

[BusterHill]

I had a doe who very suddenly became snotty, drooly, and wheezy...

I separated her into the lower part of the barn and kept her quarantined, off and on with her symptoms...

Sometime today she died....

I cut her open as I knew i had felt kits move in her at one point and i was well, curious...

I found that she had what looked like small tumors on her uterus, and she was pregnant.. but well, several embryos were very small and looked to have just stopped forming, there was one large lump though, and I cut it open to find a mummified kit... no joke, it was a lump with a lot of calcium and tiny widdle bones, looked too premature to have been old enough to have been born at the time it died...

Anyone else experience this? it looked like her body was trying to reabsorb it, then just stopped, it was completely dry, only when i broke it up a little, i saw what looked like it could have been a heart or liver, not sure, but it was dark red in color...

 

[akane]

Had it happen to guinea pigs. They usually fail to produce a litter after that. It causes too many problems with the reproductive organs. They can live for quite awhile with mummified fetus but do tend to have a shorter lifespan. The one we kept without doing surgery had the abdominal lump start pressing on the intestines causing blockages. She also developed fluid around her heart which may not have been related but is probably what killed her a couple months later.

 

[BusterHill]

I feel bad for her but feel like I learned something too... I guess they cant re absorb everything... but you think she would have expelled it... she did give birth once on march 5th... but they all were killed... it was her first and last time i guess :/