Please Help, post breech birth care.??

[tjo804]

Goat Breech Birth
New guy to goats I thought after 3 she was surely done with kidding.
Started about 3am Monday morning according to sounds on camera in barn. Breech pulled aprox 9am Tuesday.

She delivered while I was sleeping I went into the barn everything looked as it should after delivery (my 3rd goat kidding since I got them so shallow experience) She greeted me with a good morning and was nursing 2 happy kids. I found one dead kid in side stall and her placenta looked like it was doing what they do. I may have waited to long to check as I was told it is normal to take a long time for the placenta to come be patient and do not pull on it that I could kill her. I stayed awake all night in and out of the barn watching on a camera in barn. she ate part of the afterbirth and about 8am tuesday it looked like the hanging bits stretched apart and fell to the ground not delivered. I did a quick check and Dam, bones about 2 knuckles in. She had been trying to deliver a breech kid there was loose hair on my glove so I knew the sac had already broken. I managed to turn the kid and get a hold of the feet I let Momma push it out with contractions as I gently pulled with each one it took 2.5 contractions. she licked the baby, but it was still born and a little off odor.

Before going in, through the night I gave her
Vit B complex gel
Selenium and vit E Gel
Electrolite gel
Pumpkin seeds and Banana
Molasses water

after delivery She was still acting normal walking around eating hay drinking water nursing the kids. I gave her 4cc Terra-Vet 200. She has a good temp 102.9 and is acting like her self she is a great momma. But my concern is if she needs more invasive treatment or is she can expel fluids through natural process of her body. I just want to keep her healthy and alive with minimal invasion. her vulva is swollen and I washed her up plan to get prep H today and see if that helps with pain. I just know she is one of the goats that will be wonderful until she is dead, she really has no tells. I plan to monitor her temp and keep doing terra-vet, Vit B complex and pro bios for 3 or 4 more days just in case and then rebuild her gut flora with a cud transfer.

I am not sure if I should do an Iodine douche or just let her heal now. I want to do best for her. I do not have favorites in my heard.,But.....
any advice is welcome never have too much info.
She is still doing well today from all appearances

Yes, I have no Vet. I have not been able to find an actual GOAT vet (or I would get a stronger antibiotic). The last time I took a goat to the vet it was one expensive guess after another even with all their tools and I ended up saving him with help from this web site. I still have no diagnosis what was wrong with AZ but he is 100% now. So I figured go where you know you can get answers.

I had no intention of breeding her yet, she is a bit on the heavy side. so I was going to work with body conditioning first. She had other plans, I thing this was a through the fence meeting. Where there is a will there is a way.

 

[Mini Horses]

Hmmm....since you posted on coffee thread, we answered there. She should be fine. Multi birth kids are often more likely to be male positioned. It's crowded in there!

Keep us updated on the family pls.

 

[tjo804]

Hmmm....since you posted on coffee thread, we answered there. She should be fine. Multi birth kids are often more likely to be male positioned. It's crowded in there!

Keep us updated on the family pls.

My husband suggested maybe everyone is not on the coffee thread so I should make a new post. She is still doing great going to wash her up and take her temp again. The babies are very healthy and playful. They Love Momma goat yoga, 2 bucklings I think I will call them Smokey and Bandit. the two that passed were Doelings. The part I thought was odd is that the does were bigger than the bucklings. I thought generally it was the other way around. This is as far as I am aware her 3rd freshen and she has had 2 with the other kiddings 1 of each. Guess nature does what it wants.