I have been through 5 goat births and so far haven't had any complications I would still however consider my self a newbie. If you want to know anything ill be more than glad to help with anything I can. Baby goats are really fun.
My 2 and a half yr old goat who kidded about 7 weeks ago has had a strange illness going on.
It started nine days after she kidded I was noticing she was having trouble walking on her back legs and a day after that couldn't use them at all. The vet suggested it could be milk fever so we gave her...
Well this morning I checked on the babies.....and they were buried in fur!! she finally made anest and they have big bellies so they are getting food too!! I am so overjoyed she finally taking care of them.
Thankyou and We did stick her back, they have been drinking thank goodness. We took fur off of mama and made a nest since she had not. they are doing much better now. This is our first litter and I wanted to make sure the rest survived, thankyou for you help I appreciatte it. I hope they keep...
So we have help momma and put them on her to see if they would nurse and they tried but there seems to be no milk, I have worked with baby puppies a lot and the milk usually drop but we dont feel anything. We tried goat milk with a syringe but they arent eating.
Please help our rabbit just gave birth way past her due date in her cage 3 survived and 3 others died. They are freezing cold and we dont have any milk replacer. We have them inside getting warm but we have to feed them! can they have cow milk? what can we do!!
So my goat lupe has always been a sweetheart but when she had her first baby she became skittish. when she is let out to eat she usually eats super fast and happy. I noticed latley she is acting really slow, not moving around as much and wasn't interested in the grass as much. the other goats...
So our calf we just got has suddenly been losing hair. we conntacted our vet to maybe figure out what was wrong and they said it might be lice so we treated her with ivermectin pour. it has been a whole week and no change. I really want to know what this is.
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