Help Doe aborting/premature?

sherekin1261 · #1 02/26/11, 09:57 AM

Hi all.
We just went out to feed only to find our Nubian girl has afterbirth hanging from her rear. She is supposedly due the end of April. However the membranes look pretty developed... and we have not found any fetus/kid. We did have a nasty snow storm last night but we can see where she has been with the tracks in the snow and she has stayed pretty much in her shelter. She is eating this AM and doesnt seem to be in distress.

What needs to be done now?

Thanks

Shere

SherrieC · #2 02/26/11, 10:26 AM

Sorry you lost your kid. What I always do for a doe is worm her, make sure when you go to milk her that you don't just DUMP the grain.
Start out with a cup and work up to the amount you will need to feed her slowly.
my preggars does get a handful a day of 12 % horse or goat feed.

After they kid they get the same handful with a handfull of the 16 % dairy on it, and I slowly increase. My girls at a week fresh arnt getting and 12% and are getting about 1 1/2 lbs of grain a day, the two week fresh girl is up to about 2 1/2 lbs of grain. She's a Mega milker though and I'm milking the both of them 3 times a day right now.

sherekin1261 · #3 02/26/11, 10:36 AM

Im assuming since she went this early we wont get milk either?

Shere

SherrieC · #4 02/26/11, 10:45 AM

Go look at her udder, is it developed? If not, than probably not. But if it is, that's more up to you.
Do you want the milk? Is she a first freshener? If I didn't need the milk and the goat was a ff, I might check for a show quality udder and let her dry up on her own. If you want the milk, milk her twice a day she should give a little, and then within a week be giving more, increasing for the first few months. The act of milking will bring her into milk, since she was pregnant. But, I wouldn't think she would milk as good (much) as if she had went full term. In the same way a doe will milk less with twins and more with triplets.

SherrieC · #5 02/26/11, 10:46 AM

I had a ff that aborted a month early that I milked, not ever had one abort as far back as yours. If it was a doe that has been milked before, I'm sure she would milk now.

sherekin1261 · #6 02/26/11, 11:42 AM

I did just milk her out to help her expel the afterbirth. She actually had quite a lot in there and the afterbirth has moved quite a lot as well. This is her 3rd kidding and I bought her bred so we would have milk soon... SO if I can milk her without harming her, I would like to.

Shere

SherrieC · #7 02/26/11, 11:57 AM

Yes, just milk her 2 -3 times a day per your schedule and I think you'll be pleasantly surprized. I would start drinking the milk after about 4 days, especially if you worm her today. either keep the colustrum in pop bottles in the freezer, either Heat treated or raw depending on your method of baby raising. Or feed it to pigs chickens, body builders etc. : ) Colustrum is just the thing you need for new born orphan babies. I always have some on hand. I also mark it "goats name, and what day"
like Torrie day 2 col

nehimama · #8 02/26/11, 01:48 PM

I had an FF go thru a late abortion/miscarriage a few years back. I started milking her right away, and she was a fine milker.