Ditto What thaiblue said. Keep her in the house with the other bottle baby.

I have made the little coats out of sweatshirt sleeves & also out of those big insulated type socks. Use the top of the sock for around the neck-cut to desired length & cut a couple holes for thew front legs.
I have a couple momma's that really don't like the coats on their kids though but yours will be in the house with you.

How's the latest babies & momma doing?

Yup. Laundry detergent bottles make great hot water bottles. No leaks. :)

Thanks for the support everyone (except Patrick, lol).

The baby wasn't looking good a few hours ago...her breathing slowed and she was shaking. She wouldn't eat and I really thought we were at the end of the line for her. I was getting a little emotional, so I wrapped her in a warm towel, put her in front of the register, and headed to the library with the kids for a little while. I really figured she would be gone when I got home. Imagine my surprise when I got home to her walking and bouncing around my kitchen crying for food!! She gulped down 4oz and stayed up and around for about 30 mins while the human kids loved on her. I figured that was enough excitement for her and wrapped her back up and put her in front of the register again, she wiggled her way out and ran around for a few more minutes! She is finally sleeping now....but WOW, what a surprise! It may be a bad thing but I am getting my hopes up now...I haven't before this point because I fully understand how dangerous it was for her to not even register a temp on the thermometer when I brought her in the house as a cold little popsicle kid....my thermometer starts registering at 85 degrees!! I am amazed and positive, but still optimistic. My daughter named her Lucky :-)

The twins outside are doing great...you can't even tell the doeling was weak to begin with anymore. Healthy, healthy. My daughter named them Blackie and ------ (------ is brown, lol) :-)

Oh yeah, I already had sweaters on them as soon as they were dry. You may have actually learned the sweater trick from me when I posted this pic when our very first doeling, Sheep, was born... :-)

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Glad she's doing well. I really think keeping them warm if they've been chilled once, is the best. I had one that got chilled at birth and we really had to work at keeping her warm until she was a few months old. If she got cold at all, she'd start to get sluggish.

This brought happy tears to my eyes :) .

Your daughter picked a great name. I am so happy she is hanging in there. Also love the picture of the baby in the shirt so cute.

I had a baby last year that had trouble keeping temp up I took one of the 8 hour heat wraps you can get for the back it had a little sticky tab on each end fastened the tab inside the goat sweater put on baby he was able to move around and still stay warm after a few days he no longer need the extra heat and you do not have to worry about burning them.

So glad you came home to a good surprise Lindsay! Your little girl has picked some pretty good names too & I bet those little one's(human) are going to spoil Lucky Rotten!
Thanks for the update & pictures.

So true! Also, if a vet does any goat work, it's usually meat - and there's a big difference between a Boer and a Nubian!

It's fortunate when you get a vet who realizes that the one mini-clinic they did in school is not enough to "know" goats. Finding a vet who will listen, consider what you as a goat owner know, and work with you is a blessing.

Awww, come on,Lucky!!! We need some good goatie news!

Hang in there Lucky! We're rooting for you, little sweet pea:)

Thinking about Lucky! :)

I'm so glad that she's doing so much better. I'll bet that you were ready to cry when you saw her bouncing around!!

You don't know how wonderful it is to hear good news.

How are all the kiddos this morning?

All the outside kids are good. We had a buckling born last night too....last of the babies until April...total count 5 doelings, 2 bucklings....no losses thus far :-)

Lucky seems to be doing well. She moves around more now...even ate 6oz this morning for breakfast...but I do not think she has pooped since yesterday morning...she is peeing regularly though. What can I do to make her bowels get moving? Thanks!

Put her on the most expensive, whitest carpet you have in the house....

The momma will lick their bottoms to make sure they are clean and to keep things moving. Take a warm wet washcloth and make sure she's clean and there's nothing blocking her up and see if that helps.

We use metamucil in the replacer or maybe she needs an enema. I wouldn't think milk would cause issues if she's on milk. Maybe a teaspoon in 500mils of replacer. Not much at any rate. Mineral oil works too, like 2cc's (amounts vary with the size of the animal) We have hard water so I add about 10% more water than called for too, in the replacer mix.

LOL Yeah that'd do it too! :hysterical:

Oh, I'm so glad I swallowed my coffee before I read this!

Where's the "like" button when ya need it? :)

Do not use Metamucil or anything thing like that, just keep milk in her stomach.
If the warm wet washcloth does not work then I use Pedialax I buy the liquid kind that comes in a bulb, available at grocery stores and pharmacies.
My guys are tiny so I draw some out with a syrgine that has a longer tip then the standard kind. I insert it about 1 cc and massage for a minute and then they poop within 60 seconds.
But she may very well be pooping, if you have dogs in the house they may get that super tasty :yuck: colostrum poop before you see it. Two of mine follow the goat kids around like they are treat dispensers. So make sure before you torture her with a suppository that the dogs are not cleaning up, I did that once and I felt bad. She had nothing and was crying and straining and it was the darn dogs.

YEP!!!! :rock:

I wouldn't worry about it unless she does not go for a day... sometimes we just miss them going, but also, it may just be "collecting" for a big poop. One of my c-section babies last year didn't go for a whole day, when he did finally go, it was like that yellow poop that they do... I think it has something to do with the body going from colostrum to milk.... not sure though.

oh, and yes, we would do the momma clean the butt thing when they would eat, and that does stimulate them to eat and poop

Okay, gonna be gross here.

Had a friend whose dog did that. We'd yell at her, "NO SOFT SERVE!!" as we chased her away.

***** still laughing too hard to respond******

Who but you folks would understand? :bouncy:

:goodjob:

OK why? (agree milk is far better than replacer) It was advice from my vet and has worked for dozens of lambs over the years, can goats be that different? Would be good to know!!

:rotfl: If we were in the basement of this forum you would have received the coveted Spew Alert, lol!

:hysterical:!!!!!!!!!

Vet had me add one teaspoon of canola oil to my bottle baby last year to help keep bowels moving and it helps stop bloat too. Shelly

I've done that too.

Because goat kids that young and hers might be a preemie only have one working chamber at that time. They cannot process things as well and Metamucil, Milk of Magnesia ( sp?) things like that which may force them to void the contents of their stomachs as well as their bowels; and may cause scours. That is not a good thing in such a tiny kid and brings up a whole other set of problems, one that a wash cloth or suppository can fix pretty quick.

We all know goats are different, they are smarter and cuter ;) lol or maybe goats are just more pesky escape artists. Nah I'd go with the former :D

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I have to say I've seen none of the problems you're suggesting and I've seen lambs so premmie they have no wool. Baby goats are cuter that's for sure, or maybe I'm just too used to lambs! Someday I'd like to have a couple/few Saanes. Is that spelled right?

Saanen. You like white animals? You need some color lol.

Do the lambs with no wool survive? Goat kids that preemie do not.
Give a goat milk of magnesia and it all comes out, I have done it and I would not on a goat kid that little. I have done Metamucil on a goat who had eaten pounds of sand due to an ulcer, it expands in there and pushes it all out. Well in her case it did not :( different story.

Some times yes most times no but it seems a respritory failure is to blame more than its digestion. No idea about milk of magnesia, I don't think I've even seen it available. A shame because I used to like it for myself!

Critters escape mostly in summer, white is easier to see running off...... no really I just like them.

Update time...shortly after I asked about the poop...she took care of the problem herself so no worries there. She held her temp and chased my human kids around the house all day, eating 6oz at a time every 4 hours. I decided to take her (and my week and a half old bottle baby) out to the barn to meet the other goats and see how it goes.

We got out there and went into the huge (like 15'x15') stall I have Hazel and her babies in (the goat the just had the twins). So after we went in there were 4 babies and one momma goat. The momma goat immediately started cleaning both of the new babies and let them both nurse, I was amazed...she is sooo easygoing! I stayed out there for about an hour, checked Lucky's temp and it was normal...so I decided to give them a few hours. Every time I checked on them everyone was happy, either playing or laying in a pile of 4 babies! Lucky looks no different than the rest of them out there :-)

I took a bottle out a minute ago and gave all 4 of the kids a chance to drink, just in case...but all of them took a few tiny sucks and were done...so I guess they are getting enough. Hazel has a huuuge udder...so now to my next question. Is there any possible way she can raise these 4 goats..or perhaps I need to go out once or twice a day and offer them a bottle just in case? ?

Thanks everyone, I am so glad everything is looking up...and it sure is nice to have a goatless house again!