Fullhousefarm
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So, I'm a little late this year since we have 10 babies on the ground. Better late than never, right?
We had four Nigerian Does due in October and they all did great.
October 17th- in the wee hours of the morning- Aravis (our @OneFineAcre 4 yr old doe) kidded first with triplets- she's had a single and twins twice. She had a black polled buckling, a black polled doeling, and a little tan buckling. The two boys are reserved to an awesome pet home with one of the other doelings.
On the 19th Spice had two little bucklings all on her own moments before we pulled in from picking up my daughter from work. She's had doelings the last two years so she was due for some boys I guess! But, her udder is absolutely amazing! This is the third freshening we have had her for and before we got her she had never been milked- just fed her babies for 8-12 weeks and then they were weaned so we've seen improvement every year. Unfortunately two days later she wasn't acting like herself. She had a 106-107 fever. I treated with LA200 and banamine with no improvement so 24 hours later I gave her Draxxin. She actually started eating great again and acting better but her fever was still over 106. Took her to the vet at 4 pm. He did (well, myself and my daughter mostly did while he instructed) a uterine flush and another abx. She was back to normal with no fever the next morning. We think she had a small piece of tissue retained since she passed the placenta after birth and nothing large came out with the flush. She went on to take Best Doe in Show at our County fair on Saturday, four days later.
I'll add more in next post...
We had four Nigerian Does due in October and they all did great.
October 17th- in the wee hours of the morning- Aravis (our @OneFineAcre 4 yr old doe) kidded first with triplets- she's had a single and twins twice. She had a black polled buckling, a black polled doeling, and a little tan buckling. The two boys are reserved to an awesome pet home with one of the other doelings.
On the 19th Spice had two little bucklings all on her own moments before we pulled in from picking up my daughter from work. She's had doelings the last two years so she was due for some boys I guess! But, her udder is absolutely amazing! This is the third freshening we have had her for and before we got her she had never been milked- just fed her babies for 8-12 weeks and then they were weaned so we've seen improvement every year. Unfortunately two days later she wasn't acting like herself. She had a 106-107 fever. I treated with LA200 and banamine with no improvement so 24 hours later I gave her Draxxin. She actually started eating great again and acting better but her fever was still over 106. Took her to the vet at 4 pm. He did (well, myself and my daughter mostly did while he instructed) a uterine flush and another abx. She was back to normal with no fever the next morning. We think she had a small piece of tissue retained since she passed the placenta after birth and nothing large came out with the flush. She went on to take Best Doe in Show at our County fair on Saturday, four days later.
I'll add more in next post...