trinityoaks
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Branwyn kindled just under 3 weeks ago--8 kits. Beautiful nest, all seemed well.
Last Thursday, one of her kits seemed rather weak--seemed to just want to lay down. I intended to check on it that evening but forgot. The next morning, we found it dead. Saturday, we lost another kit. Sunday morning, DS21 found the rest of the kits lifeless.
Monday, we noticed she wasn't eating or drinking. She also hadn't pooped or peed. We noticed she seemed rather bony, and we offered her favorite treat, an apple, which she devoured readily. We gave her three more apples. She ate two of them by this morning, but nothing else. This morning she seemed weak, but I put her bottle next to her, and she drank a fair amount. This afternoon I noticed she had pooped, but very small, moist droppings. This evening she can't move around, and I can't get her to eat or drink. She did eat a few leaves of bindweed and a sprig of parsley, but that's all. No hay (grass or alfalfa), none of her usual grain feed, no kitchen oatmeal, not even more apple, bindweed, or parsley. She was convulsing a few minutes ago, but seems to have calmed down.
I'm guessing that she's missing something in her diet that caused the pregnancy and kindling to be hard on her body, but I don't know what it is. She has a salt/mineral block available all the time.
No other symptoms that I can detect. I'm at my wits' end.
Last Thursday, one of her kits seemed rather weak--seemed to just want to lay down. I intended to check on it that evening but forgot. The next morning, we found it dead. Saturday, we lost another kit. Sunday morning, DS21 found the rest of the kits lifeless.
Monday, we noticed she wasn't eating or drinking. She also hadn't pooped or peed. We noticed she seemed rather bony, and we offered her favorite treat, an apple, which she devoured readily. We gave her three more apples. She ate two of them by this morning, but nothing else. This morning she seemed weak, but I put her bottle next to her, and she drank a fair amount. This afternoon I noticed she had pooped, but very small, moist droppings. This evening she can't move around, and I can't get her to eat or drink. She did eat a few leaves of bindweed and a sprig of parsley, but that's all. No hay (grass or alfalfa), none of her usual grain feed, no kitchen oatmeal, not even more apple, bindweed, or parsley. She was convulsing a few minutes ago, but seems to have calmed down.
I'm guessing that she's missing something in her diet that caused the pregnancy and kindling to be hard on her body, but I don't know what it is. She has a salt/mineral block available all the time.
No other symptoms that I can detect. I'm at my wits' end.