My herd is not on our property and I have two young children. I didn’t want to cause her more stress by trying to put her in a kennel in the back of a truck and driving her 15 minutes at night down the road in 60 degree weather.
Her udder is full and the same as earlier today. She was grinding...
Came back 3 hours later, no baby. She’s in pain. She isn’t dilated enough. I could only get 3 fingers in but the baby is not in the birth canal. We don’t control breed so I don’t have dates but she should be due based on outward signs and the other does kidding. I found her laying. She stood but...
I have goats for almost 6 years and never seen this. Have a first time kidder in labor. Every time she lays down and gets up I see thick bloody mucus. She doesn’t look dilated enough to have the baby but I know they can fool ya. This buck has thrown some good sized kids. She’s definitely in...
Ok, let me do some clarifying. The pen is an open pen and is about 50’ x 30’ maybe more.
The other goat that died, died over a year ago. I didn’t have this mama when it happened. She died from old age.
I have tried to bottle feed kids this age before with no success. Even tried when the kid...
so my buck is about 2 months old. His mama died from pneumonia a couple of weeks ago. He’s fat, almost too fat (bloated?), “bah”s a lot and just seems out of it. I had another young buck loose his mama and he ended up dying. Don’t want a repeat. Any advice? Obviously too old for a bottle. He’s...
I had someone buy me a pair few years ago. She's a great goat but had a blown out udder and mastitis. Her udder was huge but she would never let me do anything with it and honestly I didn't know what to do.
Well she had twins this time around and they were doing well on the one side. One died...
She acts fine. Doesn't look any different this morning. Eating, drinking and peeing/popping fine.
Yes to the auction question but she didn't look like this when she ran thru the ring. This all developed after the fact
I asked a goat friend and she said that sometimes this happens when they eat a lot and then aren't fed a while. She also said she thought She was wormy. Idk.... We will see. Hope it's not a death sentence
I just bought this goat. She did not look like this when I bought her. When I picked her up and got her home this! Never seen something like this. It's not hard, it's gushy and sounds like a waterbed.