bloody discharge - doe milking through

[Alice In TX/MO]

Don't you just love it when things go ok for a few days in a row and you breathe a sigh of relief, and then @#$%&* happens?!?

I have an Alpine/Saanen cross, full sister to Lily whose pics I'm posting as she approaches kidding.

I've been milking her for two years after her first freshening. She has very quiet heat cycles. Last fall, she cycled in October before I got home from Missouri with the buck, and then didn't appear to cycle again. She's making about three quarts a day, which is fine, considering how long it has been since she kidded.

Over the weekend, she was very verbal, as if she was going into a heat cycle, but she didn't hang out near the buck's pen.

Yesterday and today she's had a small amount of blood on her vulva and tail.

I have NO clue what's going on. Help.

[SJSFarm]

Oh wow, I hope someone has an answer for you! You're one of the ones WE rely on because of your experience.

Best of luck! Hope she's ok.

[myheaven]

I have a couple of does who will have the slightest bit of bloody discharge after a heat. Sometimes after mating too.

[Doug Hodges]

My lamancha was bloody during her heat. So was another of the girls.

[Frosted Mini's]

I would guess either in heat, or else she had gotten bred sometime when you didn't know (was she penned with the buck at all? Or across a fence from one?), and has had an abortion. I have seen does acting in heat when aborting.

[Alice In TX/MO]

She never indicated a heat or flirted with the buck. If she got bred through a double fence (unlikely) she would be due by now, as there was no buck on the premises prior to Nov 1.

I need to look back at my biotracking results, but I'm pretty sure she tested open in December.

I'm just going to watch. Maybe it's a weird spring heat cycle.

[Frosted Mini's]

Oh, I also had a doeling one time that I watched get poked in the vulva with a stick from some tree limbs I had fed them. If I hadn't seen that, I would have wondered what was going on that evening when I saw a little blood on her rear end.

[LomahAcres]

She could just be in heat - sometimes they do bleed, though I see it rarely. I would keep a close eye on it to see if it continues for more then a few days, or increases in the amount. If she was bred at a later date, she could be or have earlier, aborted - I most always see bleeding then - even if it's just a little bit. Is it possible she could have been bred within the last 2 months or so? In which case I would say she is most likely aborting.

[Alice In TX/MO]

I've been washing her tail and girl parts, which she finds highly offensive.

The buck is across one fence now, as no one has been in heat at all for months, and neither one of them has escaped.

We'll see if it goes past two days.

THANKS!

[TeenyTinyFarm]

Frustrating for you I know...

As all of us ladies know, our girlie bits get mixed up and do odd things from time to time. They don't always cycle just like so. A bit of spotting here or there. Sometimes it just happens. Probably nothing to sweat about, but I myself sweat a bit when I am off kilter. Fingers crossed for your doe, probably just normal weird girly hormones...

[coso]

I had one that I think was in heat the other day, she had a wet tail and was flagging a little bit for a couple of days. She kidded the end of February. I wouldn't fret too much about the discharge.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Thanks, Chris.