Extra teats?

jen74145 · #1 02/02/07, 11:35 AM

I've been working with Molly (N. Dwarf doeling) to make her comfortable with me touching her belly and eventual udder... noticed today, she has two regular teats, but then the tiniest nub for a third. Do I need to do anything?

moosemaniac · #2 02/02/07, 11:59 AM

My understanding is that extra teats is okay in Boers, but not in dairy goats.

Ruth

Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians · #3 02/02/07, 12:07 PM

You could contact the breeder, if she is registered you should get your money back or a new kid this spring, however this breeder deals with this. You should be able to keep the doeling for a pet, but her signed paperwork would go back to the breeder. If it is ADGA registered and the breeder does not do most of the above you can contact me privately for help.

If she is a pet, you have no show aspirations than just keep her. Do not let anyone cut off her teats that doesn't know what they are doing. If you cut off teats with orifices or pick the wrong teats to cut off you are in more trouble than just the look of this kid. They would need to be cut, the area inside stitched with the skin stitched or stapled over it. Breed her, get her into mllk than if the extra teats bother you have them removed when you have her dried up that first year, this way there is no mistake made. Make sure whoever you breed her to does not have extra teats or cut off teats, they are inhereited, so you can expect some of her kids to carry them. Vicki

jen74145 · #4 02/02/07, 01:51 PM

Thanks both; I knew they could be a problem, but I SWEAR I looked when I first was considering her... guess her shaggy tummy, my cruddy eyesight, and her struggling made me miss it.
She isn't registered, but I'm sure her seller would swap her out for me.. but of course I had to go and fall in love with her (when will I learn? When?) so it would break my heart to let her go. We had planned on getting another doeling to keep her company/provide more milk anyway, but the idea there was to have TWO milk goats... sigh.

Guess only time will tell... but think I might have to find a different herd for her buddy, will have to talk to hubby this evening and see what he thinks...

Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians · #5 02/02/07, 02:05 PM

CAFOs tick me off...

First what are CAFO's ???

But all herds have genetic faults creeeping in now and then, and without my glasses on and the light on in the barn I would have missed it also, don't ditch the breeder if she gives you the right attitude you want when you call, perhaps she will give you a discount on the next kid? It could have been a totally honest mistake, or it could have been totally normal for her herd...lots of folks don't care about stuff like this, CAE, abscess etc. Why I would contact her and see what she has to say. You have a good healthy doe, that's what counts right? Well unless she was sickly also when you purchased her, than no I wouldn't go back. Vicki