A tablespoon of molasses on her feed to get her to eat?

[DonnaBelle]

I am having a time with Felicia, my Nubian doe who kidded last Saturday with 4 kids!! All the kids are fine, but I am having a time getting Mom to eat.

I mixed up some corn, BOSS, goat developer, calf manna and topped it with a tablespoon of molasses. She is eating it right up.

How often can I put the molasses on her feed? Will it hurt her at all?

DonnaBelle

 

[treeclimber233]

I am no expert but I don't think molassas will hurt her. It is an ingredient in some goat feeds. once she starts eating you probably want to wean her off it asap so she doesn't start refusing to eat without it.

 

[Queen Mum]

Molasses won't hurt her at all. Wet COB is a Corn Oats and Barley with molasses added. Sweet feed is feed with molasses added. MANY feeds have molasses added. It is a perfectly safe ingredient AND it has iron in it, which is a good thing for a new mama to have.

 

[hcppam]

All I can say is 4 kids!

 

[elevan]

Give her a vitamin B shot, it'll boost her appetite and give her energy (which she needs with 4 kids!)

 

[Queen Mum]

Give her a vitamin B shot, it'll boost her appetite and give her energy (which she needs with 4 kids!)

ditto

 

[DonnaBelle]

Thanks guys,

I am going to town today, I'll see if I can find some Vitamin B for a shot for her.

The molasses is working too. SHe is eating really well now. But you should see her, she's sooooo skinny across her backside.

I am hoping nobody sees her, you'd think I was starving her.....

DonnaBelle

 

[20kidsonhill]

If you can't find any Vitamin B shots, look into Goat preferred powdered probiotics, or something like that, It has supplements and vitamins in it. You could mix a scoop of that into her feed for a few days.

 

[DonnaBelle]

That's a good idea too. I bought the big tube of Probios yesterday. I didn't know I needed the gun to make it work. DH took one look at it and said: where's the gun? What gun? I ask.

He looks at me and says" How are you going to get it outta the tube?? Well, guess what? The wife of a building contractor who has seen and bought thousands of tubes of caulk, didn't realize I needed a "gun" to get it out.

I think I'm getting senile.....

PS: I just called my vet, gonna stop by and get some vit.B too....

DonnaBelle

 

[20kidsonhill]

we were at lowes the other day, looking for a caulking that comes in a tube that you can close back up, because dh said, "he only uses a little bit of caulking at a time, and those big tubes, don't come with caps on them, once you open them, they dry out and you have that waste." Well, that was what he was saying. I thought this was odd, surely not every time you open a big tube you use it all. but I was going with it.

So we are looking for little tubes that have caps on them, then of course the a store helper comes by and asks what he can help us with, and we explain. I can tell by the way he is looking at my husband, that he feels sorry for him and is trying hard not to laugh.
He turns around and pulls a small package off the shelf that has two caps in it.

Well that was easy. But I was personally, thinking, couldn't you just slip the thing into a bag or something?


Anyways, that is my caulking story.

Hope your doe, starts eating better and putting on some of that weight. It is amazing how quickly they can loose weight and start looking really bad.