08/19/09, 03:00 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: North of Houston TX
Posts: 4,817
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When you milk alot more, you will know that it's normal for flakes, lumps of butterfat, strings, blood, and bits of calcium to be in your milk but also on a strip cup. If you paid to culture everytime you saw something you would be out of business.
A doe with poor attachement, pendulous udders or even does who have to live in heavy brush, will simply have more 'things' to strain when you milk than does who live in dry lots or with no horns, or on a mowed pasture. The udder doesn't get bumped if the udder is high and tight up in the thighs.
Not that you shouldn't wait and watch this doe, check her water and make sure it's clean...perfectly clean looking 35 gallon water trough here had some leaves in the bottom...I grabbed the leaves to use to get out the tiny bit of green algea in the trough...when I dumped it out? It was a club of leaves but it also contained a dead rat! YUCK!
CMT is a good tool if you are milking several goats, it shows you change. From week to week or month to month if you write down the amount of gel, change shows you a raise in somatic cell count, which can show you a problem creeping in or some does gel more when in heat, at the end of lactation etc...but it does not tell you if this doe has staph etc...you have to send in for culture to know this.
I would keep milking her, give her a bo-se shot, feed vitamin C if you are fighting the drought with nothing green for the goats to really eat. Vicki
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Vicki McGaugh
Nubian Soaps
North of Houston TX
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A 3 decade dairy goat farm homestead that is now a retail/wholesale soap company and construction business.
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