Wow just kidded! but I have a concern. advice plz.

[jason_mazzy]

So she must have kidded between 10:30-and 2:30 today. I was checking on her at 10:30 and she showed no signs of anything. no contractions, no breathing hard, she was perfectly normal. I was waiting to give her a snack because I have some friends from NJ coming all the way down, so i wanted the kids to feed her the banana. Well at 2:30 I go to give her some hey and change all the duck and chicken water, and notice she looks different in the udder. I trimmed her last night but was not very succesful with a mix of 1 handed trimming with $10 clippers, while holding a goat in 1 arm................. yeah not the best job. But her udder looked to defined from a disatnce. So I opened the pen and notice my black and white chicken, is not a chicken but a lil goat running around jumping up and down.




So I instantly get some molasses, warm water, and fresh hey. I also make a bottle. The baby will not drink the bottle but keeps nursing mom so OH well!

Mom also won't touch the molasses water. sniffed it once and went and drank regular water.


So I put all the stuff down, and go to looking for the other goat, and the after birth. Didn't find either. In fact no sign of either. that is where my concern is.


She still looks quite pregnant. She has energy and is eating and really taking good care of her newborn. It is her first time. But I was convinced she would have twins.

what are the chances she still has a kid that will be born?

what are the chances she has retained a kid and get sick?

What signs should I look for in the next couple days indicating a problem?

Is there any way that I can feel her and know?


p.s. she is a friendly goat who wants attention but does not like to be handled or really touched. So I don't like having to hold her cuz she hates it. and I don't want her to stress.

 

[chandasue]

Do a search on "bouncing" to see if you can feel anything. She might have only had one and ate the placenta. (Gross but it's instinctive.)

 

[jason_mazzy]

was gonna let her eat her birth, itsnatural. It was just odd seeing no signs of it anywhere? no wet goo in the hay. At least that I can find. So crazy.

 

[Roll farms]

She's either passed it and eaten it already, or hasn't passed it yet.

I've had one retained placenta in 250 or so births...not hugely common, but can happen. Sometimes takes several hours before they pass it.

Keep an eye on her behavior, feed / water intake, temp, etc. and if all stay normal....she's fine.

 

[cmjust0]

Does she still have a 'rope' hanging out her rear end? If so, she most likely still has a placenta in there. I've gotten impatient before and massaged udders until they crank out the placenta.. Massaging the udder causes them to release some hormone or another (oxytocin?...can't remember) that makes the placenta come out naturally.. Usually the kid nursing does the trick, but I've literally massaged and massaged and you can see them start hunching over and the rope will start moving as they have contractions.. Next thing ya know, plop -- out comes the placenta..

Usually do that if I'm tired after having been kept up all night by a screaming goat, and I just want to go take a nap. I know...it's kinda like cheating in a way and it's probably not what the goat wants at the moment, but at that point, I don't really care what the goat wants anymore.

 

[elevan]

I had a pygmy very similar in October.

She gave birth within a narrow window of me not being there to witness it. I never saw or was able to locate the after birth. She still looked huge.

She only gave birth to one. Her "innards" moving back into place was freaking me out cause I thought she must have another one in there. It was just my imagination running wild.

She sounds like she's acting normal...

Congratulations! And where's the pics?

 

[jason_mazzy]

I had a pygmy very similar in October.

She gave birth within a narrow window of me not being there to witness it. I never saw or was able to locate the after birth. She still looked huge.

She only gave birth to one. Her "innards" moving back into place was freaking me out cause I thought she must have another one in there. It was just my imagination running wild.

She sounds like she's acting normal...

Congratulations! And where's the pics?

Here!!!:

 

[jason_mazzy]

BTW NOW THAT THE PICS ARE UP: WTH is up with her COLOR????? This was a pygmy to a pygmy breeding. That is one odd looking kid!

she is agouti fron and agouti back, with a white barrel for a dress??? So odd.

 

[elevan]

Were the dam and sire both registered pygmies?

I'm betting there is some nigerian dwarf in the ancestry of that kid.

She is absolutely adorable btw!

 

[Our7Wonders]

Wow! What a cutie! I don't have a clue about the color but she's just adorable! Congratulations!