AmberLops
Herd Master
Hi everyone!
This is so strange and I just want to see if anyone else has ever had this problem...
I have 2 Lionhead does who are mother and daughter.
Last month the younger doe (daughter) had a litter of stuck kits and I rebred her, and about 2 weeks ago she had another litter and she did better..she had 4 kits, 2 dead and 2 alive.
She kept them alive for the first 2 days and the 3rd day I checked on them and they were both dead...obviously starving.
I was waiting to see if after 3 days her milk might come in but when I checked her, she had none.
After doing some research on does not producing milk I read about this woman who had a doe give birth and she watched her feed her kits many times but they all died of starvation within 3 days...and when she checked her doe, she had NO nipples! So I immediately went out to check my doe...and she is missing all her nipples except for one!
And that doe's mother (obviously a proven doe!) just had a litter 2 days ago and her kits were starving also, so I put her kits in my Angora's nestbox so she could raise them...and when I checked this doe, she was also missing all nipples except for 2. And those 2 nipples did have milk but the kits couldn't all eat!
It's obviously genetic so i'm not keeping the does after this.
It's just so weird! Oh well...I definitely made sure to check all the young does i'm keeping for nipples!
Have any of you ever seen this??
This is so strange and I just want to see if anyone else has ever had this problem...
I have 2 Lionhead does who are mother and daughter.
Last month the younger doe (daughter) had a litter of stuck kits and I rebred her, and about 2 weeks ago she had another litter and she did better..she had 4 kits, 2 dead and 2 alive.
She kept them alive for the first 2 days and the 3rd day I checked on them and they were both dead...obviously starving.
I was waiting to see if after 3 days her milk might come in but when I checked her, she had none.
After doing some research on does not producing milk I read about this woman who had a doe give birth and she watched her feed her kits many times but they all died of starvation within 3 days...and when she checked her doe, she had NO nipples! So I immediately went out to check my doe...and she is missing all her nipples except for one!
And that doe's mother (obviously a proven doe!) just had a litter 2 days ago and her kits were starving also, so I put her kits in my Angora's nestbox so she could raise them...and when I checked this doe, she was also missing all nipples except for 2. And those 2 nipples did have milk but the kits couldn't all eat!
It's obviously genetic so i'm not keeping the does after this.
It's just so weird! Oh well...I definitely made sure to check all the young does i'm keeping for nipples!
Have any of you ever seen this??