Hi! I recently brought home a 4 week old kid. He was previously being dam raised and is just not quite getting the hint about the bottle! He absolutely will NOT take it on his own. We have tried regular baby bottle nipples (with larger holes - this is what our other buckling prefers)...
One word of advice:
Just because the breeder *doesn't* test for certain diseases...doesn't mean they can't.
If you are a really interested buyer, I don't see the harm in asking for testing done on the animal/animals that you are looking at.
*nods*
You are doing the very best you can for her and I am sure that she appreciates it.
You are a fantastic goat owner! Never think any differently! :hugs
Okay! Paranoid goat mommy. He pooped. :hide Ha!
Wouldn't you know it, the second I set him on my bed, he decides to eliminate a days worth of bathroom right onto my bed. :rolleyes:
Off to change the sheets!
:weee
(I would much rather wash my sheets though than deal with a sick baby!)
We just gave him an enema and gave him his evening bottle with a bit of karo syrup...anything else we can do for him? :(
He doesn't seem to be in distress at all. Just. Not. Pooping! :he
Ugh.
Hi! I have a 6 week old buckling that has suddenly developed constipation.
No changes in food, milk intake, hay...just stopped up, I think. We have him isolated right now to monitor his "output" and he is peeing just fine and in normal intervals...however when he tries to poo he hunches up...