This baby isn't quite right.....

[Moody]

There is a weird spot on his head and his eyes seem different...

 

[Moody]

His eyes

 

[Goat Whisperer]

That is odd. His whole face looks "off".

What is he crossed with?

Does he have an anus? All the other "parts"?

 

[Moody]

I tried to get him to nurse to ensure he was but he did not want to. He was still a tad wet so I came back a few hours later to ensure he was nursing and noticed the spot on his head and his eyes. I don't remember them looking this way with previous baby goats? But maybe I just didn't take note or didn't look close enough.

I tried again to get him to nurse. Momma looks painfully full so I milked a bit of colostrum and both teats took a bit to get started. Like I had to get the plug out first then milk flowed. I put that into bottle and he took some but he is awkward. Maybe just a newborn awkward. I have never bottle-fed a goat.

He curled his upper lip and I didn't see any teeth. Maybe I just wasn't looking in the right spot or maybe he has none. I'm wondering if his abnormalities are from prematurity?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Is that a wound on his head? Bless his heart, he really looks "off". Have you taken his temp? Does he have trouble swallowing? I'd be checking him for a cleft palate...and a lot of other issues.

He won't have teeth on the upper jaw - they'll be on the bottom.

 

[Moody]

Well I can see at least one budding tooth. I don't know how many or how big they should be. Maybe he is blind or maybe I never looked closely at hours old babies.

 

[Moody]

It doesnt look like a wound. Maybe no skin over skull? I'm not sure what it looks like.

I bottle fed him a tiny bit and he did seem to swallow. I take it he didn't nurse from 9ish am -4:30 pm since her tears weren't free flowing colostrum.

It is warm here now. Flies and bugs are out. I've never had an issue like this.

 

[Moody]

That is odd. His whole face looks "off".

What is he crossed with?

Does he have an anus? All the other "parts"?

Seems to have an anus. Looks clean so i don't believe he has defecated at all yet.
It is a boy. I can see that. His mama is lamancha/alpine and I don't believe there was any cross breeding this season so the daddy had to be Nubian. I didn't note any cross breeding in my notes. I didn't think this doe was bred. She was thin when my others were getting huge. She had pale kids a couple months ago and I heavily wormed her thinking she wasn't bred. I never noticed the male interested in her and she was nursing last year's accidentally inbred kid still early in the season. I can check what dewormer I used when I go back inside.

 

[Moody]

Her udder has lumps? Almost like mosquito bites. Never have seen that before either. But it's only been 3 years of kidding here for me.

 

[Moody]

I did 3 days of pelleted safeguard then 2 weeks later 1/14/17 I did cydectin.

I need to make this year's goal learning to do my own fecals. Nobody does that here. They just worm with with a chosen dewormer on a set schedule.