Milking MOMA a bit worried.

luvzmybabz · #1 01/31/09, 06:28 PM

Jordan had her baby Wednesday about 10 AM well by that evening I noticed that Jamillia seemed to only nurse on one side. The other side was warm not fevered but seemed to be firmer up a bit well I milked that side out and back in with baby she went. What I expressed did not seem think enough to be COL. Same thing Thursday morning so hubbie and I decided to try to graft baby to mom if we could find a young bottle baby. Well no luck so milked her out again Thursday evening and Friday morning right after milking her out on that side baby finally decided to try to nurse on that side also. Well at least I think so but the udder seems almost empty always ( mom is a FF ) and is also smaller then when she kidded. I am worried there may be something going on but not sure what? Baby is peeing and pooping but seems to constantly be nursing and then releases very quickly she is bouncing around learning her legs. I can milk her out once I get her onto the stand ( not a cooperator it usually takes 2 and huby goes back to work in the morning) The only other goat I have milked was not a FF and had been freshened 5 months prior to me buying her. Is this normal ? What should I be checking for? Could I keep baby away overnight to just see if baby is constantly eating, it was my plan to start doing this in about a month anyway to be able to milk in the mornings.

Kasi

Leo · #2 01/31/09, 06:58 PM

IMHO the baby is just nursing one side, and the other is drying up. What bred of goat is this? If you milk out the side the kid prefers that'll get it to nurse the other side.

luvzmybabz · #3 01/31/09, 07:36 PM

The nanny is 50 % boer 50 % nubian. I was milking the side that she was not nursing from 2x per day and then this happened started last night. When I milked that side on then the baby would try to nurse from that side so I thought maybe that she was getting engorged on that side like human baby sometimes can not latch but then today they are the same size just not any milk ( a couple of squirts) on either side.

luvzmybabz · #4 01/31/09, 07:57 PM

hubby went into town and caught the goat guy at work at Tractor supply said pen injection 6 cc and 1 cc infusion each teat ? is will this harm if this is not infection also the baby is nursing will this harm baby?

KimM · #5 01/31/09, 08:14 PM

I don't think I would give any antitbiotics unless her udder is full, hot, and hard, and/or there are chunks, flakes, or blood in the milk. (I'm NO expert about lactating does though).
When I had a kid that preferred one side, I would tape the preferred teat for several hours at a time (then hand milk some out and re-tape) to encourage the kid to nurse off the unused teat. Once they learn to use the off-teat, they usually will go back and forth between them but I would watch that side closely until you see the kid continuously feeding from both sides.

Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians · #6 01/31/09, 08:19 PM

Nonsense! If you keep her milked out twice a day, by day 3 or 4 in boer production in a FF, the kid will start nursing both sides, that is all you are seeing. Please don't turn to antibiotics without a fever, heat in the udder. mast is udder, itis is inflamation of. Is the udder inflamed, nasty icky milk, hot udder...than don't do something some yokel at TSC told you to, and pennicillin isn't going to touch anything on it's own, and 6cc given is only enough for one shot to a 100 pound doe, and she would need two shots a day for about 10 days, with Naxcel and infusions, and 1 cc of anything put up into the teat is doing nothing but staying in the teat and the mastitis she doesn't have would be in her udder, not her teat.

Keep milking her out on both sides not just the one, this will force the kid to nurse both sides. In 2 or 3 days she will have an empty udder and a full fast growing kid. Plus this will keep the dam tame and the kid tame. Vicki

Jubel · #7 01/31/09, 08:47 PM

Maybe one 1/2 of her udder is Nubian and the other 1/2 is boer. Sorry I couldn't resist. I hope everything works out. Try massaging with udder cream.

Oat Bucket Farm · #8 01/31/09, 09:27 PM

We have a 1/2 Nubian 1/2 Boer FF doe and until we started separating her from her babies at night, we didn't get anything but a few squirts. We started separating the babies at night when they were four days old and her morning production is up to almost a quart and she is just over a week freshened. I know thats not a lot of milk compared to other does, but not too bad I don't think for a first freshener thats half meat goat. This is the first time we've had a first freshener, so not sure how much to expect anyway.

luvzmybabz · #9 02/01/09, 06:13 AM

I would definitely not pay one lick of attention to most of the smucks at TSC but this guy have about 15 dairy does and sells his milk but I have noticed before that he seems to medicate a lot. I myself have allergies to antibiotics because of overuse when I was a child, so I am careful about overmedicating all the kids around here human or animal.