Better luck with her next time around. Wishing nothing but the best for your next kiddings.
Bloody mucus?
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mspj
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It has been almost 24 hours, her bag is still soft. Do I need to milk her or will she just dry up. I have Colostrum in the freezer from my last kidding so I really don't need it as after the March births it will be 12 plus months before the next kidding. I don't think I want to keep it that long in the freezer. I will keep a close eye on her bag and only milk out enough to keep her comfortable if it does fill up.
Please let me know if this is not a good plan, I am still learning and need all the help I can get.
Please let me know if this is not a good plan, I am still learning and need all the help I can get.
Goatgirl47
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If I were you, I'd get her a foster kid. I know that it can be extremely hard to graft on a kid (or a calf), but to me it's worth it.
One time when our beef cow had a dead calf (we don't know if it was stillborn or not; it might have been because she was a first-calf heifer and probably didn't know that she should lick the calf's nose to get the mucous out so it could breath) we bought a foster-calf for her and one of our friends showed us how to skin her dead calf, and then we put the skin of her dead calf on a foster calf we got from a local dairy. I know that sounds gross, but it worked, the cow excepted the calf. Unfortunately, we found out later that the cow had no milk in her udder, and so we returned the calf to the dairy, and butchered the cow.
I don't know about the milking of your little Pygmy doe, I have only experienced one kidding before, and have never milked a goat.
One time when our beef cow had a dead calf (we don't know if it was stillborn or not; it might have been because she was a first-calf heifer and probably didn't know that she should lick the calf's nose to get the mucous out so it could breath) we bought a foster-calf for her and one of our friends showed us how to skin her dead calf, and then we put the skin of her dead calf on a foster calf we got from a local dairy. I know that sounds gross, but it worked, the cow excepted the calf. Unfortunately, we found out later that the cow had no milk in her udder, and so we returned the calf to the dairy, and butchered the cow.
I don't know about the milking of your little Pygmy doe, I have only experienced one kidding before, and have never milked a goat.
