Sorry this is so long!
Okay, I have a doe that I am having a hard time telling whether she is underweight or just saggy. She is 7 years old, and has had two sets of quints (5!) and I think one set of trips and one single (she hasn't kidded here, yet). Her eyelids are pink, she was wormed this year before exposure to my buck (March), has minerals and baking soda, and has been copper bolused. I feed them BOSS, Purina goat pellets, and alfalfa pellets. They've eaten most of the grass in their pen, but I let them out almost every day to eat weeds around the pen and barn. She's still eating and acting just fine.
The front half of her looks/feels fine I think, but then she has these sunken spots under her hips. She had them when I first got her, but I'm having trouble judging whether they've gotten worse or not. She has this BIG belly, and I think it pulls down on her there, which doesn't help the sunken look. My mom says that she is probably saggy from having so many babies. Could you guys please look at these pictures and tell me what you think? I've already started to increase their feed, since they're supposed to be preggers (haven't blood tested), but do you think I should worm her again? (I used Cydectin earlier this year, but I'm planning on using Ivermec next to help prevent resistance.) I don't want her to be underweight, but I'm so afraid of doing something wrong with her supposed to be preggers.
Oh, another theory my mom has is that if she is pregnant, the babies may be dragging her stomach down even more, making it look worse?
You can click the pictures to see them bigger.
This is when we first got her:
This is now. (Sorry this pic isn't as good, but my camera is broken - this is from a friend's camera and the only picture I have of her side recently):
What do you think?
