Lets talk about goats!

[2chixintown]

On my goodness! That is the biggest udder I have ever seen, poor girl. I have Registered Pygmy Goats based on her size she looks like a pygmy or Nigerian pygmy cross.

 

[2chixintown]

So, if she was trying to dry her up, and let the udder get that big, that doe has what I believe may be a blown teat. Too much pressure causes it to break down. You can't fix that. To be honest, that doe probably just needs to never be bred again. Sometimes that weakness can be hereditary, and you don't want to pass that on.
Letting her udder drag the ground like that is a breeding ground for infection in her udder.

Ditto, she's right that doe shouldn't be bred again.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

There could be lots of reasons for a mass that size in her udder. Is the mass hot? Or discoloured? She could have mastitis, a hernia, a tumour, a lymphoma. Time for the vet to come and take a little biopsy. She could well have something very fixable, and she looks too nice to let her just go from an identified, possibly unproblematic mass.

 

[H Diamond]

Heartsized, they said in a following post that the udder is flaccid now.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Ahh. Right. Time for my bed I guess. Can I use the fact that I was helping with the shearing all Saturday and Sunday as an excuse for brain fog?

 

[H Diamond]

Ahh. Right. Time for my bed I guess. Can I use the fact that I was helping with the shearing all Saturday and Sunday as an excuse for brain fog?

Lol, you don't need any excuse!!!

 

[farm n louisana]

Thanks I was think of getting her to keep with my weather male for when my buck is with my females is that a good idea or can she give my other females goat something I have no idea if she ever had a vet look at her but to me it looks like her milk bag isn't anymore good only one side filled with milk her other side didn't have any milk she couldn't feel her babies she sold them to me as bottle babies

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Oh my word.

 

[Stacykins]

So the joyous nature of birth turned to great sadness last night. My goat doe Yoko, who gave me two fantastic kids last year, went into labor. But labor procession stopped, so I had to check what was going on. I immediately knew the kid trying to come was dead, it was very swollen and not twitching. I try and tried and I could not dislodge this kid. Yoko was getting more exhausted and pained, so I called the vet.

In the end, we got the kid out. It was...very underdeveloped. And sadly, the beautiful, normal doeling behind it had died from the stress of the birth. The underdeveloped kid had gotten wedged so badly, even the vet had a hard time getting it out.

Yoko is alive and doped up on pain killers and antibiotics. I guess the only silver living is that I milked her a little last night (because she was so full and I thought it would make her feel better to have that pressure off) so the colostrum has been frozen for future use. She was trying so badly to lick her deceased kids even though she was exhausted and in terrible pain from using a chain to pull the kid.

I'm just glad I still have Yoko. She is my herd queen, smart as a whip, sassy, and always first to the treats. But she was such a great mother and milker, I really looking forward to her kids, too.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Very sad story. Glad Yoko survived.