Mini Silky's Kidding 2018

[MiniSilkys]

How much feed are you giving her?

2 cups per day along with hay

 

[MiniSilkys]

You shouldn't need to use any of those things.
The nutri drench may be used if the doe is laboring and getting tired.
After kidding give her a bucket of warm water with molasses in it.

The other products are basically for emergencies.

The probiotics are always something to have on hand so that is great.
The Colostrum multi species - you really should not need and IMO better to have real colostrum from a clean herd. The mom will have it, if kids are nursing great. If you pull the kids to bottle feed they need 10% of body weight in the first 12 hours.
The jump start is good if you have a very weak kid.
I think the other products are similar and may be redundant.

Her first kid died due to being too weak and think got fluid in her lungs.

 

[Southern by choice]

Are you in a selenium deficient area? Did the doe get any selenium?
Was the kid weak at birth? Did the the aspirate and was weak from that?

 

[MiniSilkys]

She was kicking up a storm the day before she was born. Then came time. The bubble did not break. I broke it after she was out and cleared everything I could and dried her off. New Mama wanted nothing to do with her. Baby would only lie around and breathing sounded fluid like.

 

[Southern by choice]

Was there meconium in the sac?

 

[MiniSilkys]

I don't know what that means.

 

[MiniSilkys]

I have been looking at breed pictures and I now think my goats are pygmy's.

 

[Bayleaf Meadows]

Did you use the bulb to clear the kid's nostrils? Swing the goat to move the fluid out of the lungs?

 

[MiniSilkys]

It was my first kid and unexpected, so I did not know much at the time.

 

[Bayleaf Meadows]

I understand, totally. It's hard to know what you need to know when you haven't been through it and there's no-one with you with that experience. I am thankful for youtube videos and internet educational posts, but even then, they aren't showing everything you might come up against.