Big Teeth

[Emilea]

I just had a baby goat born and two days later it died... its momma had no milk and it would try to drink out of a bottle but acted uninterested and would not drink out of a bowl either, but my vet said its teeth are what made it die?? they were HUGE and crooked.. anyone else with that problem?

[Alice In TX/MO]

The kid had tooth problems, or the mom had tooth problems?

[ozark_jewels]

Hmmmmm......it died because it wouldn't eat and it wouldn't eat because of its teeth?? How big were these teeth??
I'd be more interested in why mom didn't have any milk?? A connection maybe with the kid being strange??

[Emilea]

she came into milk right after he died, the bucks teeth were really really big, I tried to bottle feed him after milking another goat but his teeth even cut my fingers trying... my vet said he had only seen it a few times but it will keep them from sucking cause it hurts but I am just not understanding i guess.

[cathleenc]

in a human infant, the suck is the result of the nipple being pulled towards the back of the mouth, to the soft pallet, and then the the infant's tongue 'stroking' the underside of the nipple to massage the milk out. The initial suck only brings milk to the end of the nipple - it's the wavelike motion of the tongue that increases and decreases pressue/vacuum that moves the milk out. So sucking is only part of it.

Perhaps the teeth caused something like a cleft lip reaction, where vacuum could not be created because the mouth area could not seal? Just a t hought.

[Emilea]

Maybe.. I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem