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What is the protocol for a pregnant doe that is leaking milk?
She should have 47 days to go till due date based on her last heat and buck exposure (and she's a doe that cycles fairly loudly with dramatic changes in behavior and lots of blubbering, I put a buck in with her, and she was bred, so I'm fairly certain that was a heat). Over the last few days she's filled almost to bursting, her teats have elongated, and where she lays down she makes sticky, yucky colostrum puddles.
Should I be cleaning, milking and dipping her with the milkers or just letting nature take its course and letting her be a sticky mess? I'm not opposed to freezing colostrum from her and feeding it to her kids when they come, I just really don't want mastitis. She has such a long way to go still.
She should have 47 days to go till due date based on her last heat and buck exposure (and she's a doe that cycles fairly loudly with dramatic changes in behavior and lots of blubbering, I put a buck in with her, and she was bred, so I'm fairly certain that was a heat). Over the last few days she's filled almost to bursting, her teats have elongated, and where she lays down she makes sticky, yucky colostrum puddles.
Should I be cleaning, milking and dipping her with the milkers or just letting nature take its course and letting her be a sticky mess? I'm not opposed to freezing colostrum from her and feeding it to her kids when they come, I just really don't want mastitis. She has such a long way to go still.
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