She lost the skin at the tip of the teat. She attempted to "accidentally" fall off the milk stand on the way up so she could circle the back and eat from the food dishes without being contained (not my first rodeo, every goat does this) failed, slipped for real, fell and bashed herself. Hopefully that's everything that will slough off now.
Folks, do not get frostbite. Stay WARM. Imagining this on fingers, toes, ears, or nose is a little much for me.
The teat is a little smaller and fit in the inflation last night without popping in for her 60 seconds of milking that jeopardizes the granulating tissue less than hand milking...but she took care of jeopardizing the tissue plenty last night-ewie. That may have actually been semi healthy tissue because she bled.
I'm taking pictures to compare milking to milking to make sure she is making progress.
I realized something this morning. One reason I like my ND is because when I sell one I don't eventually hear back they neglected or fed it wrong until it died or stunted. Instead they win shows or are just fat pets. Most of the mini or standard sales end up being the former. I wish I could help people understand what's involved in actually keeping dairy goats well, but people are the hardest animal to get through to (except for maybe Nubians).
I've got another possible fail playing out right now while my mega FF kidding dumpster is in fire. The mini I sold makes a gallon+/day with a well attached latex glove udder texture and either the goat has an ear infection and needs a vet to treat which they don't seem to want to do or they're just not feeding right...and when I say "what are you feeding" they think grain first and THEN hay and it's mostly grass and I'm not even sure on type or quality they're free feeding so the "newbie" has a chance to get enough while finding her place before it's gone. They also don't really have a shed or barn for shelter and the goats are fighting for shelter in all this cold in cut out plastic water totes like dog houses.
To raise productive goats, like, you shower them with all the best hay and feed and coccidia prevention while they are growing in year one, then first freshening might be rough, but second freshening and on they start taking care of you. And you still need to feed and care for them in a pampered way because milk is a luxury product that their bodies won't make well if stressed or stunted. VS the ND where you can be a little less on the ball with coccidia prevention, feed a little less nice hay, and first freshening is usually unimpressive, starve them more often without consequence but they bag them up big enough to compete in shows, then second freshening comes and they start producing acceptably and you're off to the "acceptable" races from there. And apparently the minis are in the standard category even though they are smaller and more thrifty and tend towards fat (but with about 3/4 the production) here.
All this kind of makes me want to sell most of my standard bucks and just milk through as much as possible so we have no extra goats for a while.
On the other hand, the buyers I did have loved my mini saanens (probably because they were coming from saanens to minis and not ND or newbie to mini or standard). I wish I could drum up a fan club for the breeds that actually are my cup of teat too. I may also make $500 be the minimum doeling price in the future like a lot of breeders do, so at least if the buyers are cheap/uninformed, they are $500 uniformed rather than cheap and maybe more likely to treat their purchase like a $500 goat...because all told they are a $500+ goat....from the get go. (and no worries, I still probably won't make money, especially on buck years like this, which is most years for us)
Anyway, just thoughts. Sorry if autocorrect is out of control. I think I've gotten most of them. Off to milk and feed.
things keep going in the good direction
