Nina - WE HAVE BABIES - LOTS OF PICS

[autumnprairie]

I have 4 that I want to know if they are bred. I need to order supplies but I also need to test for CAE and CL.
I know that biotracking does CAE but where do I send for the CL test?

CONGRATS!!!! TBC that is great news!!!

BioTracking has a partnership with the Either University of Washington or Washington XXX school. For an extra $10, they will send your same blood sample on for CL testing. Go to their website, you can get a start kit of needles, etc along with nicely written instructions. That is what I did.

Thanks Ed for the added info I will be ordering them when I get paid.

 

[wannacow]

I need to draw blood from mine too. I keep putting it off. I don't know why though, I was a phlebotomist for 6 yrs and a paramedic for 17! :/ You made me braver, but maybe next weekend. I have the tubes and needles. There is nothing stopping me.

No waiting, just do it.

I don't know why I'm being such a chicken!

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Took some updated Photos Yesterday...

Right Side Left Photo is One Day after visiting the Buck and Right Photo is 46 Days Gestation

Nina from Back Again Left 1 Day and Right 46 Days Gestation

Photo from Above (Did not have Day 1 Pic, this is her on Day 46)

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Feeding - What is the norm....

She gets Free Choice High which is Alfalfa / Orachard Grass mixed.
I typically do not feed grain, becasue my goats and sheep are all plenty chuncky. However, with Nina, I started given her about 4 cups of Goat Grain (16%) once a day about 2 months before I attempted to breed her. Does this sound good? Keep it up all the way through her pregnancy and after she delivers?

Also Shots / Supplements. Now that she is definitely pregnant, what shots / supplements should I give and when?

Edited to add that she has not received and vacination since being here either. So I have been reading about CDT, should I do that and if so when?

 

[20kidsonhill]

AFter she kids, depending on how many kids she has and if you are milking her, she will need more grain than that, divided into two feedings a day, or other things added to the grain.

we do 3 or 4 cups of grain
a cup of beet pulp dried
a cup of whole corn


twice a day. I ofcourse don't just throw in a cup of each right away after they kid, I slowly start adding, so they are on full ration in a couple weeks time.

befor kidding they are getting 3 to 4 cups of grain once a day.

If the doe is nursing a set of triplets I try to give her more than the above ration.

She is looking good,

congrats.

 

[cindyg]

20kids, this is the first time I've seen you reference beet pulp, something I've been giving my goats for a while now. You say dried, do you mean you just give them the pellets? I've been soaking mine before giving them, as I was told at the feed store that it was dangerous to give them dry, that they would puff up in the stomach, but it's hard in the winter to soak them as they then freeze.

 

[Roll farms]

I am hiding because I'm going to admit that I don't measure our goat's grain. I know how much a goat 'needs' in theory, but I feed 20 or so does at a time in the general population pen, and they 'share' 2 - 1 gallon scoops of grain (sweet feed, corn, and goat chow mixed together, top dressed with mineral, kelp, and probiotic powder), plus several flakes of alfalfa.
The dry / young goats get 'a scoop or two' split amoung them.

I watch their condition....if they look too fat, they go to 'fat girl pen' and go on a hay only diet. If they look too skinny, they get pulled into a stall for extra alfalfa.

All does being milked get the same grain mix in the feeder on the stand. They get to eat for as long as I'm milking.

Not horribly scientific...but it's how we do it.

As far as shots, 5 wks before they kid I give BoSe (because I know we need it) and CDT. I give another shot of BoSe 2wks pre kidding.

 

[autumnprairie]

I am hiding because I'm going to admit that I don't measure our goat's grain. I know how much a goat 'needs' in theory, but I feed 20 or so does at a time in the general population pen, and they 'share' 2 - 1 gallon scoops of grain (sweet feed, corn, and goat chow mixed together, top dressed with mineral, kelp, and probiotic powder), plus several flakes of alfalfa.
The dry / young goats get 'a scoop or two' split amoung them.

I watch their condition....if they look too fat, they go to 'fat girl pen' and go on a hay only diet. If they look too skinny, they get pulled into a stallave for extra alfalfa.

All does being milked get the same grain mix in the feeder on the stand. They get to eat for as long as I'm milking.

Not horribly scientific...but it's how we do it.

As far as shots, 5 wks before they kid I give BoSe (because I know we need it) and CDT. I give another shot of BoSe 2wks pre kidding.

That is how I am feeding too, my two new girls have been here since the first and I still think they are looking rough and skinny. My last two are from the same previous owner and they look good and coats shiny. Any advice that can be given would be of great help.
here are pics of them here.
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=190212#p190212

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

So what exactly is BOSE?

Looking at the Jeffers Website, I don't see a product called BoSe. Please help.

 

[Annamarierw]

BoSe is Selenium/vitamin E