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Death

Necropsy Update

May 18, 2007

The vet called yesterday with the results of the necropsy (that’s a veterinary autopsy) on Mary. The immediate cause of death was septic shock due to a systemic infection of streptococcus zooepidemicus (phonetic spelling on the species). This bacterium is found in the mucous membranes of all ruminants. and it’s known to cause “Alpaca Fever” [...]

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Farming is Hard

May 8, 2007

It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with [...]

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New Year, Sad Start

January 1, 2005

We had a sad start to the new year. Raven and Sue killed Panic overnight. We went out this morning to feed them, and he was dead in the pen. And now the two survivors seem to be getting along. (They’re still a mite prickly you understand, but no real fighting.) We’d started a thread [...]

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Poor little fishies

March 15, 2004

Frank went out today to see if he could see any fish, and unfortunately found them all dead. Damn it. This is two years in a row that they haven’t made it through the winter, and this year we tried a pond heater. I don’t know how it’s going to fit into what is going [...]

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