bheila,
I'm sorry for your loss.
I understand the feeling of nursing a baby goat back to "health" and then finding it dead the next morning. Often , as helmstead said, it is difficult to get goat kids to survive after being severely chilled. My thought is that they probably got pneumonia...
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Front feet first is the normal delivery position for a baby goat. I have attached a link to an article that shows the different types of delivery positions and how to help if a goat is in distress. http://www.boergoats.com/clean/articleads.php?art=285 . In 5 years of having boer...
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Sounds about right to me. She'll have colostrum for a couple days and then really start to make milk. Just keep an eye on her.
I have Boer goats and stall them to kid. I agree with the other person that said to put mom and the kids in a small stall (mine are 4'x6') with the kids...
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Sounds about right to me. She'll have colostrum for a couple days and then really start to make milk. Just keep an eye on her.
I have Boer goats and stall them to kid. I agree with the other person that said to put mom and the kids in a small stall (mine are 4'x6') with the kids...