Mama Boer goat w/ brownish discharge

[hayzor]

Mama boer goat w/ new kids (12 days old) has some brownish discharge from her backside. It doesn’t seem normal – is it?
She seems healthy other than this. Eating well and nursing well. The kids have gained about 6 pounds each since birth. This is her 4th or 5th set of kids.
She is on a Bermuda grass pasture and supplementing w/ alfalfa and concentrate.
Any ideas ??

[nehimama]

Sounds to me like normal after-kidding discharge? No bad odor?

NeHi

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

Brown is usually nothing more than dead blood. When I see anything weird at all, I always put them up on the milkstand, clean them off and go in with a gloved hand and see what exactly is coming out...once oxygenated, especially because boers aren't shaved up like dairy goats who are milked, lochia in hair can smell like death when it's not a uterine infection at all. It would also give you the perfect time to take her temp, which no milk and a temp is your signs of uterine infection (or if the stuff coming from the vagina you pull out on your gloved hand has a bad odor to it). Vicki

[Minelson]

Gretta had discharge after kidding for about 3 weeks..brownish.

[DairyGoatSlave]

normal

[hayzor]

thanks for the responses. I feel better.