luvmypets
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Its been a while, Im hoping your doe is ok.
I have to give her 8cc of penicillin twice a day I couldnt lose he shes such a special goat for being my first shes so sweet and lovable one of a kind.. I can always breed her aging down the road but couldnt find another goat like her thanks for your alls support and helpThank you for taking her!! Hopefully she will be able to recover. The op is not the problem, actually. The toxins from the dead kids is it. I am sure the vet loaded her with all he safely could and more to come. Do as vet has instructed and call in an instant if she isn't getting better reasonably soon. She's gonna be down for a few days at first.
& prayers. Keep us posted, pls. We care.
She was bred before I got her to a oberhasli buck which is a fancy term for swiss alpine they get anywhere from 30"-35" tall to big for herEveryone was giving you the right advice. She was definitely in labor and needed help. So glad you took her to the vet. I'm sorry you lost the kids. Luckily Blossom made it through surgery, and hopefully the antibiotics will take care of any infection.
Was she bred to a pure Alpine buck? I am not sure how big Kinders get but I think they are much smaller than Alpines. Is that right? Breeding a small breed goat to a full size breed really causes this sort of problem - oversize kids in a small doe.
Once the doe is in hard labor, the kids must come out within an hour or they won't make it. I prefer to err on the side of going in and pulling kids if I am in doubt. If the doe can't have the kids, she will stop all pushing and the kids die anyway. If the vulva feels tight, you can massage the muscles to soften them and gradually enlarge the cervix. You need to get a book with pictures of how kids are normally positioned, and read about situations like this.
I used to have my 4-H project kids put stuffed animals in a pillow case and have them feel and identify what parts they were feeling. This helped them feel confident about their goats kidding. They still called me, but at least they knew what was going on and understood the procedure.
Hope you have better luck next time. You should be able to identify the stages of labor now so you will be more confident and able to intervene in time. Everything is a learning situation.