Udder Congestion?

[Brynn]

I milk my doe 1-2x a day. I milk until almost dry, apply a teat dip and she goes back in the fence with her twins. Today I began milking on the right teat without any change. The left teat was warm and felt like it had milk in there, but when I would go to squeeze, the milk came out in a thin stream. It was about half the size of stream as usual. I tried to massage the udder and then squeeze again... i would get about two pulls worth of a normal size stream and then it would go back to thin. if i massage a second time, the same thing happens. There is NO blood in the milk. It does not look different. The teat does not look visibly swollen.

I started to waffle: should I leave it alone? should I milk it dry? warm compress?

Then the freak out: OMG not mastitis!

Then I ran to backyardherds for help. So I'm currently panicked and want to help my little doe, but don't know how. PLEASE HELP!

 

[Brynn]

I added a warm compress and began to milk a little. She hates the warm compress, but it seemed to help. I think this might be a case of Udder Congestion. I massaged the udder and my girl threw a tantrum. However, both the heat and massage seemed to have helped.

The milk I collected was perfectly fine. No abnormal smell, color or texture.