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04/23/06, 02:45 PM
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sold baby, will does milk dry up?
I want her milk to dry up !her bag is very full, she looks miserable. I am feeling much guilt about selling her buckling too, he went to his new home yeterday,He was the first baby for her and me  .....anything I can do to help her as far as her full bag?
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04/23/06, 03:25 PM
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Can you milk her? That would be the best thing to do. Otherwise you'll have to just tough it out, and so will she. It's best not to dry them off suddenly like that, right at the peak of their lactation, so if you possibly can, milk her for a while.
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04/23/06, 09:12 PM
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I will jump in & say leave her alone unless you plan on using her for a milk goat for awhile. The fullness of the udder is what triggers her to stop producing milk. If you milk her out, her body will tell her to make more to replace the milk you took. She will be fine after a few days.
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04/23/06, 09:17 PM
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I let it go but would strip a little out if she looked too uncomfortable.
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04/23/06, 10:28 PM
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Do not just let her go, you could wind up with a very sick goat if she's a strong milker. Milk her once a day for several days, then every other day for several days, then every two days, and so on. It took me three weeks once to dry off a doe, but at least she wasn't in pain and didn't get sick. If she's had kids on her, she could be producing a huge amount of milk.
I just re-read that this is her first baby. If you ever want to use her as a milk goat, you should milk her for ten months. If you dry her off early, her body will figure that's all it ever needs to do, and she won't have any lactation length in the future.
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04/24/06, 05:43 AM
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If I may ask---why would you not want to utilize all that rich, nutritious and delicious goat's milk? Did you get a goat to have milk or was there some other reason? I am not being snarky, I am really curious.
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04/24/06, 08:42 AM
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How old was the buckling? I'm a bit concerned if she has that much milk that he might not have been weaned. I think I remember you having Boers? So if that's right, this isn't a dairy goat with mass quantities of milk.
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04/24/06, 01:01 PM
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he was 3 months old on the 20th. eating food, hay and drinking water, when he would try to nurse she would step over him constantly. He weighed 11 lbs at birth and 42 on the 20th.so I figured 3 months old was old enough to wean since I seen him eating,etc..I have called his new owner to check on him and she said he is doing great. I do not drink goat milk or I would milk her,nor do I know anyone would could use the milk. He is a boer and of course so is his mom.I just want her happy, the doe that is..she is grazing,eating and all fine her bag doesnt seem to be as full today as it was this time yesterday.
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04/24/06, 01:55 PM
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The goat milk could be used for making cheese, or butter, or cottage cheese, or feeding other animals (pigs, dogs, cats - whatever), and probably has many more uses than that.
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04/24/06, 02:00 PM
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I would milk her for a while and raise a reserve just in case next year you get a orphaned kid or other animal... You never know! 
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04/24/06, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by maryanne
he was 3 months old on the 20th. eating food, hay and drinking water, when he would try to nurse she would step over him constantly. He weighed 11 lbs at birth and 42 on the 20th.so I figured 3 months old was old enough to wean since I seen him eating,etc..I have called his new owner to check on him and she said he is doing great. I do not drink goat milk or I would milk her,nor do I know anyone would could use the milk. He is a boer and of course so is his mom.I just want her happy, the doe that is..she is grazing,eating and all fine her bag doesnt seem to be as full today as it was this time yesterday.
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Yep, that baby is weaned! That's a heavy producer for a boer doe, too. I'm impressed!
I bred my Alpines to a Boer this year. I hope the one doeling I got will be as good! Congratulations.
Meg
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04/24/06, 10:37 PM
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Have any of you ever milked a Boer? I have. Let me tell you about it.
First, I locked up her head then... well, did you ever hear the story of giving a cat a pill? First I approached her from the side. Then tried holding a leg up. Pushed her against the wall. Finally, I straddled her, facing her tail, stretching her body out with my legs holding her back legs at the hip, bent over her butt, milking between her back legs, under her tail. Was not a pretty site. Tried to keep some of the milk but that thought was lost when the poo on her hoof came off in the bowl when she was bouncing so I just took enough so she wasn't uncomfortable. And after all that fighting, and the first two pulls, she realized that she was no longer uncomfortable and settled but only just. The next day she was smaller and so on.
Now, let me tell you that these goats let me do all sorts of normal stuff to them. Hoof trimming, worming, shots but go to touch those teats 
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