A little advice please

[ChickenMom]

Last night we had twin doelings born. The mama won't take care of them, she is 4 and has kidded before but maybe this is why she was sold. She did lick one kid (the smallest) to clean it and then she started pawing it and butting it across the pasture. She never did anything with the larger one. We were afraid she was going to kill it so we brought them into the house. We left them in a tub with the towel that smelled of afterbirth and then took them back out this morning. She picked it up and threw it with her horns. I checked her udder and teats and they aren't real full, I let off a little pressure.

Here are my questions:
Will the doe dry up OK?
Sizes of twins 4 1/2# and 3#, the larger one is taking 5 oz at a time and the smaller is taking 3 oz, is this enough?

They each got colostrum last night that I had frozen and colostrum this morning. I am milking twice a day so I have fresh milk to give them.

This is the big one


This is the little one

[mygoat]

Too cute!

Congrats on new bottle babies, lol.

On drying up... IF the doe is a dairy goat, or even 1/2 dairy, she'll probably need help drying up. I don't know much about drying them up, so I'll let someone chime in with more advice.

[tiergarten-CO]

How cute. Makes me want more babies.
We left our doe alone and she dried up just fine.
Kerstin
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[CountryHaven]

Oh they're so cute and TINY... could they maybe have been a little premature and maybe that's why the doe rejected them, as well as why she doesn't seem to have much milk?

[goatkid]

Cute babies. It's normal for small newborns to not drink alot at first. Just check them every few hours to see if they will eat. Watch to see that they are pooping as well. If they have not passed their meconium by a day old, give them a warm water enema. Is the doe Boer or dairy? If she is a dairy goat, she may not have actually raised her kids before. Watch her udder. Some does don't come into much milk until a day or two fresh. If she were my goat, I'd milk her and give it to the babies. That is unless you want to dry her up. If that's the case, check her udder a couple of times a day without bumping it too much, or it will make her let down her milk. If she has a fair amount of Boer in her, she should dry up fine.

[ChickenMom]

It was day 149, I keep the bucks separate and I haven't had any get loose. We brought her here about 2 months before we bred her, she's always been pretty wild though. She is Boer/Alpine. She is running around out in the pasture like nothing ever happened. Any of the other does would be pacing the fences and screaming.

[topside1]

Nice kids, glad to hear their ok. I know this wasn't one of your questions and I'm sure your way ahead of me, but that doe needs a new home. Unless she's something special I wouldn't be feeding her for another year just to find out once again she's a poor mother. I kept a milkless FF doe for an entire year just to find out she's was milkless again, what a mistake. Thin out your headaches...my simple thoughts

[ChickenMom]

I got this doe thinking I might could milk her but between her kicking, biting, and huge horns, it was definitely a mistake.
This is her, the black and white one:

[topside1]

That old gal looks evil, love the young Boers.

[ChickenMom]

She is evil, you can see it in her eyes can't you! I'm wondering if she'd make decent hamburger, I hate passing headaches on to someone else.

[topside1]

In my neck of the woods she would have hit the freezer right after she tossed the kid in the air with her horns....Good burger