Rescued goat suddenly come into milk and has now very clotty fluid coming out ??

[Alma]

I rescued a goat about a couple of months ago, no history at all. Except the vet said she was about ten years old. Was wandering around without the previous owners caring about her. She had all the brouse she wanted , no poisons here at all in this area, many of the cabin neighbors were sort of looking out for her but eventually got fed up with her not being looked after and called in the SPCA. She ended up at my place as I have goats too. She is a full Toddenburg and is very friendly and well trained. The previous owners only got her in July and there's no way they would tell the SPCA where she came from !!!!!A few days ago her one teat(she only has one big one the other is only small possibly from a bout of MAstitis or an injury maybe) started to get bigger and bigger I thought could she possibly be pregnant!!?? No other signs visible even tho I have been trying to feel around on the right side I can't see anything either. Then yesterday I saw that her teat was looking far too shiny and even on the verge of looking very full and felt her udder and it was very hard (no heat there tho) when I tried to milk her a little she was a little fussy but I have put warm compresses and bag balm massaged in and when I got some liquid out it was clotty and yellow in color . It didn't smell very nice either but this morning the smell was gone but she is still full and hard to milk it out. More warm compresses and bag balm but I'm not sure she's pregnant and why would she all of a sudden get a full udder if she not ?? I have three good books I've been reading and other than a false pregnancy or summer mastitis Has anyone ever dealt with something like this before and can offer some help. I have put a call in to our agri vet but only get a call back in extreme emergency. She does not show any other signs and is eating her hay happily.

[mygoat]

I had something like this happen to me, and I am still treating it. I have a pygmy doe who gave birth in august. Her kids were separated on oct. 17th and was dry. Then, on nov. 10th, since she was the first to kid here I didn't know what a dry udder was supposed to feel like, so I touched it ( a sin in my goat's opinion, mastitis or no) and there was still a little bit of liquid on the one side, which felt like a beanbag. I squirted some out, was yellow and chunky. Yup, mastitis. Called the vet, she told me 5cc pennicillin for a week, then to call back. well, i milked her out and gave the shot. Next day, milked her out again, less fluid and a lump had formed. People on this site reccomended trying to break up a lump that was forming. tried that, and I ended up stopping because the decreasing amount of liquid was turning blood tinged. I decided it was inflamed tissues that caused the lump, and my trying to break up the lump was breaking blood vessicles. ater two weeks stopped pennicillin treatment, and am currently waiting for a shipment from jeffers for my ToMorrow, which should prevent it from coming back, once and for all. don't know why a lump formed, but my guess it was damaged tissues. My doe probably won't ever produce milk on that side again. Don't know why it would happen in a doe that wasn't pregnant either, but I wasn't milking my doe an it happend to her. Maybe it is just more likely to happen to a producing or pregnant doe, but can happen to any of them, Idk.

[Alma]

Thanks for the reply , I have tried to also break it up the hard lump and it has also turned the yellow into red tinged which is the broken blood vessels but I have still tried to milk out a little every day but not so much hard massaging but adding warm compresses have helped but its still hard to know if this is pregnancy or the other baby tryin to nurse an old goat.

[mygoat]

o hehe i just replied to your other thread b/c i didn't notice that I had responded to both of them.... lol sry.....