Bottle Baby??????????

[jessiesue]

First just let me say I have been going through HOMESTEADING WITHDRAWS. My internet had been down for a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Sunday I had a Nannie go into labor and the first was a still born doeling. She then delivered a very small, but alive buckling. I was with her during the labor. When she started pushing a termendous amount of water gushed out, I told husband that that wasn't right. I have witnessed ALOT of goat births and this was the first time I had ever seen this much water. The doelings gumms looked bloody. She was developed right and was beautiful with a full red cape to back on shoulders. I rubbed and I rubbed, and tried putting small amounts of air in her lungs, but to no aveil. The buckling also has the full red cape and was about the size of a 20 oz. soda bottle. My husband then tells me the doe had took a hit the evening before...
Well long story short, the nannie loves the baby, but want let it suck. I have been bottle feeding. I keep it in the house at night, then when the grass dries off I take it to her. She tends to it great. HEHE I told my husband she babysets 9-5. I go out and feed it, while I give it the bottle she cleans me.....
Do you all think there is a posibality that she will ever let it suck. She has plenty of milk. This is her first kidding........And she is one of our favorite does will she do better next time.

After this rambling I bet you all hope my internet don't go down for a whole month

[CaliannG]

It seems that she bonded to you rather than her kid. There you were, covered with amniotic fluid, and she got to cleaning you. Now, when you take the kid out to her, she still cleans you.

I have a doe that does this. Loves her babies, wants them nearby, but won't let them nurse. She seems to thing that retrieving milk is MY job, and, of course, she has to constantly make sure I am clean.

Next year, hope that she has an easy kidding. If she does all the cleaning on her babies and bonds with them, she will likely let them nurse next year. Then you can be regulated to the status of "older daughter" to her.