Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2005 22:16:55 GMT -5
I have noticed a few people on the list have Nubian goats and thought you may have some answers for me.
Right now it is kidding season and so far we have lost 50% of our kids.
One of the older does that just lost twins also lost a doeling last year.
I had read somewhere that an older doe can lose her kids and was wandering if it could be possible.
We ended up helping her deliver in the end, the first out was a small doeling with just a slight heartbeat. Hubby even tried to give it mouth to mouth but it didn't work.
Then she had a larger male kid but he had already passed.
I did notice that the fluid she was losing was a bit thicker than normal and had yellow globs in it, it looked a bit like cracked raw eggs, so I thought she may have had trouble in labour and was in labour way before we found her.
Her doeling that came with her when we brought her had twins on Monday, a doeling and a buck. The doe won't feed them no matter how hard we try and was head butting them after they were born and wouldn't let them get up.
We did take them off her and gave them some colostrum we had saved when Lilly calved, we also managed to restrain the doe and get some colostrum from her. We put the buck back with her on the second night, she didn't hurt it but wouldn't feed it or lay with it. He got so cold we are now trying very hard to keep him alive. He has been very snuffly (Possibly pneumonia from the cold), so he has been getting antibiotics, Vitamin C, and B12 since yesterday. He has perked up quiet a bit, so we are keeping our fingers crossed.
Is this odd behavior or are we just the unlucky ones that got the goats with all the problems?
Is there possibly some other things to do with the little buck that we haven't tried yet?
The little doeling is thriving and a real fighter with a strong will to live.
They are on straight Jersey milk but we are adding a little boiled water to the bucks bottle for added fluids.
How much colostrum is a kid supposed to get?
I would say they roughly got 600mls each.
Any suggestions would be great, as we have run out of ideas.
Thanks Sandie
Right now it is kidding season and so far we have lost 50% of our kids.
One of the older does that just lost twins also lost a doeling last year.
I had read somewhere that an older doe can lose her kids and was wandering if it could be possible.
We ended up helping her deliver in the end, the first out was a small doeling with just a slight heartbeat. Hubby even tried to give it mouth to mouth but it didn't work.
Then she had a larger male kid but he had already passed.
I did notice that the fluid she was losing was a bit thicker than normal and had yellow globs in it, it looked a bit like cracked raw eggs, so I thought she may have had trouble in labour and was in labour way before we found her.
Her doeling that came with her when we brought her had twins on Monday, a doeling and a buck. The doe won't feed them no matter how hard we try and was head butting them after they were born and wouldn't let them get up.
We did take them off her and gave them some colostrum we had saved when Lilly calved, we also managed to restrain the doe and get some colostrum from her. We put the buck back with her on the second night, she didn't hurt it but wouldn't feed it or lay with it. He got so cold we are now trying very hard to keep him alive. He has been very snuffly (Possibly pneumonia from the cold), so he has been getting antibiotics, Vitamin C, and B12 since yesterday. He has perked up quiet a bit, so we are keeping our fingers crossed.
Is this odd behavior or are we just the unlucky ones that got the goats with all the problems?
Is there possibly some other things to do with the little buck that we haven't tried yet?
The little doeling is thriving and a real fighter with a strong will to live.
They are on straight Jersey milk but we are adding a little boiled water to the bucks bottle for added fluids.
How much colostrum is a kid supposed to get?
I would say they roughly got 600mls each.
Any suggestions would be great, as we have run out of ideas.
Thanks Sandie