How to balance hormones with goats?

[rebelINny]

Does anyone know what I could do to balance the cortisol in one of my does? She has habitual abortions....or it seems so. Second year for aborting in the same month same size kid and she has been dosed for chlamydia so I am sure it isn't that. I did some research and found that in angora goats when the doe habitually aborted they found a huge increase in cortisol seven days before aborting. So what would balance that! I want to try next year to start giving her something to balance that starting at about 85 days till she is due and see if it works. I did find out that walnuts, almonds, beans, olive oil, and flaxseeds decrease cortisol. Not sure how much I should give of one of these to keep it in check though and still need to see if these things are ok for goats to eat. Any ideas?

 

[rebelINny]

oh a bit more I learned....when it is a cortisol problem the goat always aborts in the 90-150 day times. My doe has aborted twice at almost exactly 110 days both times. Makes sense to me.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Is elevated cortisol the cause of abortion or is it secondary?

 

[rebelINny]

They were finding it to be the cause.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

I don't have any experience with that but I'd be hesitant to reach any conclusion just based on the 60 day time frame given. I believe that day 100-150 (last trimester) is considered late term and I've seen a pretty long list of causes that consistently abort late term.

Is this one of the does from the herd you purchased underconditioned? The nutritional requirements of the doe change pretty dramatically in the last month or so and I've seen lack of adequate protein (and general malnutrition) referenced as a culprit.

Like I said though, I don't have any experience with it! Were you able to send the fetus in for testing? Aside from both abortions being late term, what were the other red flags when you were researching that made you think it is elevated cortisol?

 

[AlaskanShepherdess]

http://www.firmeadow.com/ has an herbal hormone balancer.