Princess

Princess was our first family goat. Although we’ve had other goats she was the first one we bought and kept here at our house. Molly chose her name.

She was very sweet and friendly and definitely my favorite. She came to us pregnant and gave birth to Boss who is now grown.

Unfortunately Princess came down with some unknown sickness a few weeks ago. We came home from Brazzaville to find her very weak and ill. We gave her dewormer which didn’t do anything for her. Orcxance tried hard to help her; he hand-fed her pieces of bread when she wouldn’t eat anything else, turned her loose to graze at will, and went and found the livestock vet to come give her medicine. Apparently a lot of the president’s cattle have been sick and the vet had been tending to them so he seemed to know just what to do and told us if she wasn’t having diarrhea she would be fine and the medicine would work. But that was only false hope. Even after two days of ivermectin injections and a vitamin supplement injection she only grew worse and a few days later we lost her.