Seeking feeding pregnant doe advice

Jcran · #21 01/01/07, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by DocM

Well, by all means, take her farther out each day so she has to run a long ways back to the feeder!

Ok, she may be a bit wide (she spent a few weeks with my buck this Fall) but she is one gorgeous girl...and one heckuva strong one too! Getting her far enough away from her hay feeder would give any normal person a torn rotator cuff! LOL Good luck Enjoy the Ride, and call if you need help at kidding! Remember that I want a doe kid out of her!

Jcran · #22 01/01/07, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by manygoatsnmore

Did you have a huge buck kid and tiny does in there last year? Seems like I was reading that a lack of either selenium or iodine (help me out here, folks) can cause that.

My neighbor lost over half her kid crop three years ago due to an infestation of a toxic invasive weed in her otherwise GORGEOUS hay, called flixweed. It is a thyrogen, interrupting the body's ability to metabolize iodine. The majority of doe kids were born hairless, small, malformed and of course dead. More than half the buck kids were IMMENSE (one over 14 pounds), weak, and if not dead, died soon after. This sounds like what you mentioned above.

enjoy the ride · #23 01/01/07, 09:42 PM

Copperpennykids- What is MOF? Thanks

copperpennykids · #24 01/02/07, 10:15 PM

Enjoys the Ride -

MFO is a calcium supplement that you give your doe orally. It is good to have at a show or to use until you can get some CMPK injectable (if you have a crisis case on your hands) or to use to regularly supplement a doe such as yours.

I have also used it when I thought a doe wasn't having good strong contractions at kidding time (and then I am overly cautious!).

CMPK oral apparently burns the does mouth and throat, and the MFO is a bit gentler.
You can order it through Jeffers catalog.

I have noticed that Boer goats "rebound" quicker once treated than Dairy goats, in general, and probably because they are not so metabolically at the edge for production, so a little effort here, both short run (MFO) and long run (good alfalfa or pellets) can get some encouraging results.

Let us know how she does, please.