Lalabugs - Kidding done

[lalabugs]

Curious what everyone feeds milking does?
All our goats have alfalfa, water and mineral 24/7.
We're currently feeding a goat milking ration, it has molasses in it. Willow is now getting the burnt copper color to her coat.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Do you give a copper bolus or any other copper supplement other than the goat minerals?

Even though we have minerals out (manna pro or sweetlix) we still need to give extra copper. We also have extremely high iron so that makes it interesting

If you are in CA I imagine you will need to give extra copper as well. You might want to talk other goat folks in your region and see if they give extra copper, selenium, etc.

I believe @babsbag has said she needs to give all her goats Multi-Min injections.

 

[lalabugs]

Yes. I just gave her a bolus a week ago. I am in CA. I will contact the breeder we got Kuno from and see if she does anything extra.

@babsbag do you do anything extra?

 

[lalabugs]

Curious if anyone is in the GVC group on facebook?

There was a post about a lamancha buck who has a limp noodle rather than what it should be. I'm curious what could cause this?

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Hard to know without more info and seeing the goat.

I don't go on FB health groups.
They would drive me crazy LOL

 

[lalabugs]

We recently got a new Nigerian doe. She is 7 months old. From the pictures she looked a lot larger, than what she really is.
She is currently in a quarantine pen away from the other goats. We're doing everything, fecals, blood test, worming if needed.
The thing is she's so small! She's not that skinny, little hippy. Nothing compared to Marshmallow or Jasper. However she's 7 months old and 26lbs. She has unlimited hay & water. Slowly starting her on grain. My question is, if we let her grow until she's 2. Do you think she will catch up to where she should be since she's already so far behind?

We named her Sugar N Spice. Spice is sticking more.

Updated pictures on the other does.

Marshmallow is now over a year old.

Rose is 7 months old.

Willow is 1 1/2 now. Our biggest goat, even as a mini.

Honey.

 

[Hens and Roos]

cute pictures, for your new doe- are you able to measure her at her shoulders to see where she is currently at height wise?

How many kids in the birth?

It's hard to say what will happen as she gets older. We had a doe have 6 kids-both doelings were tiny and they are now 2 years old and still small and wont be bred.

 

[lalabugs]

She's 16 3/4". She is a triplet.

 

[Hens and Roos]

not sure, you might just have to give her time and see what happens

 

[lalabugs]

I will be giving her plenty of time to grow.

What causes goats teeth to be black? While giving her copper, I noticed that her molars are black. Her Incisors are kind of black.