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[babsbag]

16% feed is the norm where I am for feeding a lactating doe or cow. I raise my kids on straight alfalfa once they start eating hay, I have never given grain of any kind to a kid unless it has been sick or off of feed for some reason. But honestly they do fine on just alfalfa.

Is it medicated for cocci? I am sure it won't hurt her or her kids, but I have a little (very little) concern about feeding any animal a steady diet of medication if they don't really need it. Is that how we get resistant worms and bacterias. But eating that is certainly better than not eating so I say, "bring it on".

 

[Hens and Roos]

At this point we are trying to get her eating better than she has been.

It is medicated for cocci but maybe more bland for her, thinking her stomach is out of sorts.....kind of like nothing looks good or tastes good.

 

[Latestarter]

When I get that way, ice cream normally fixes me!

 

[Hens and Roos]

When I get that way, ice cream normally fixes me!

, my kids go with mashed potatoes!

 

[GLENMAR]

She may be sore from having that many kids. When my girl had triplets, she went off feed and was feeling bad. I gave her 5ml of vitamin B injected. It brings back the appetite and perks them up.

 

[OneFineAcre]

I'd give her normal hay free choice and then a couple times a day a quarter or third flake of alfalfa give or take
Right now all of our goats are getting oat/rye hay free choice and a bale of alfalfa every 2 days or so
the medicated feed won't hurt
Sometimes we give our milkers calf starter before a show to pump them up a little
If she just has the two kids on her now I would be milking her twice a day too

 

[OneFineAcre]

She may be sore from having that many kids. When my girl had triplets, she went off feed and was feeling bad. I gave her 5ml of vitamin B injected. It brings back the appetite and perks them up.

I bet she is sore
B-12 would be a good idea

 

[Hens and Roos]

She may be sore from having that many kids. When my girl had triplets, she went off feed and was feeling bad. I gave her 5ml of vitamin B injected. It brings back the appetite and perks them up.

we have been giving her 2 ml of vitamin B daily since Sat.

 

[Hens and Roos]

I'd give her normal hay free choice and then a couple times a day a quarter or third flake of alfalfa give or take
Right now all of our goats are getting oat/rye hay free choice and bale of alfalfa every 2 days or so
the medicated feed won't hurt
Sometimes we give our millers calf starter before a show to pump them up a little
If she just has the two kids on her now I would be milking her twice a day too

you don't think that we would be taxing her system more by milking her- given she carried 6 kids inside for 5 months and now feeding 2 of them?

 

[OneFineAcre]

you don't think that we would be taxing her system more by milking her- given she carried 6 kids inside for 5 months and now feeding 2 of them?

She's probably making more milk than the two of them are drinking now. By milking her, you are conditioning her to produce more instead of her production dropping to meet the demand of the two kids.