SkyWarrior
Loving the herd life
I haven't been on the forums in a while, shame on me! But I have a real issue I need help with.
One of my milk goats, Heidi, kidded yesterday.
Her first kid, a doeling we named Honey, was on the ground when I came into the barn. She seemed healthy enough and we got her dried off, but she was pretty dirty. I tied her umbilical and dipped it in iodine. The second kid, a doeling, proved to be a difficult birth. Not only was she backwards, her stomach was inflated with fluids to a point where I had to really pull to get her out. It was a lot of pain and a lot of tugging, but the doeling did come out alive for short while. The matter how hard I try to get all the fluid out of her, she still had more, and she ended up dying.
Honey tried to nurse yesterday, but I'm not sure how successful she was. Her mom, Heidi, ended up bleeding quite a bit from the other doeling. I gave her a shot of penicillin last night and she seems to be doing fine. We decided to take Honey inside last night to avoid having problems with the rest of the herd. We returned her in the morning and Heidi seem to be attentive.
We got home later today, Heidi wasn't doing much with her baby and simple llama was protecting Honey. It's been warm, but she's listless and her suckling response is down. I've managed to give her a small amount of milk. I'm wondering if were dealing with naval ill. At this stage, I've given her oxytetracycline and I have her in a crate with the towel. I'm not sure if she really got enough colostrum, so I'll be milking her mom giving her some tonight. At this stage I'm pretty sure she has a fever. Her poop is runny and brown. It's not commonly like the poop from a newborn.
What should I be doing? Any suggestions?
One of my milk goats, Heidi, kidded yesterday.
Her first kid, a doeling we named Honey, was on the ground when I came into the barn. She seemed healthy enough and we got her dried off, but she was pretty dirty. I tied her umbilical and dipped it in iodine. The second kid, a doeling, proved to be a difficult birth. Not only was she backwards, her stomach was inflated with fluids to a point where I had to really pull to get her out. It was a lot of pain and a lot of tugging, but the doeling did come out alive for short while. The matter how hard I try to get all the fluid out of her, she still had more, and she ended up dying.
Honey tried to nurse yesterday, but I'm not sure how successful she was. Her mom, Heidi, ended up bleeding quite a bit from the other doeling. I gave her a shot of penicillin last night and she seems to be doing fine. We decided to take Honey inside last night to avoid having problems with the rest of the herd. We returned her in the morning and Heidi seem to be attentive.
We got home later today, Heidi wasn't doing much with her baby and simple llama was protecting Honey. It's been warm, but she's listless and her suckling response is down. I've managed to give her a small amount of milk. I'm wondering if were dealing with naval ill. At this stage, I've given her oxytetracycline and I have her in a crate with the towel. I'm not sure if she really got enough colostrum, so I'll be milking her mom giving her some tonight. At this stage I'm pretty sure she has a fever. Her poop is runny and brown. It's not commonly like the poop from a newborn.
What should I be doing? Any suggestions?
