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Hey, so my FF two-year-old freshened 4 days ago with a big buckling. She's doing alright on the milk stand, but she's lifting her legs a lot. I think that her udder is sore (it's pink and I noticed that under her legs her udder was reddish) and that's why she doesn't like me touching her udder. Her bag is always tight when it's milking time and it's just beginning to stretch out. So, do you guys think that her udder is sore and that's why she's kicking?
 

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Yes, you are probably right. But also if she is raising her buckling as well as being milked some does just get difficult about sharing with you. I also have a FF 2 y.o. doe who just kidded March 3rd with twin doelings. Her udder was enormous even before kidding. Her mother is my best milking doe and gives well over a gallon a day. My 2 y.o. was really awful about letting me milk her and she wasn't great about letting her twins nurse. So now the babies are on bottles and I milk my doe all the way out twice a day. To add to the mix, at some point she kicked at her udder and scraped it with a sharp hoof edge. (My fault for not trimming her well before kidding time!) Then she had a big, tight sore udder with two bleeding wounds. But I had to continue milking her. I used Bag Balm on her udder twice a day and in just a few short days she was healed, not to mention she learned to like the massage with the Bag Balm. Now three weeks later she is nearly perfect to stand for milking and she is giving me a gallon+ a day. She has a lovely udder and very nice milk. We went through a tough time for a while, but it all worked out. Hey, who knew a goat could stand on her front legs and hold her hind legs up in the air to avoid milking?
 

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Could be. A lot of does especially FF'ers tend to do this even if I don't think their udder is sore. It's almost like they think they're being helpful.

Milking all the way out, gentle handling, and potentially even a mint oil added to a bag balm after milking can help with inflammation/edema due to increasing blood supply. It takes continued training after kidding and once they start milking to keep them from putting a foot in the bucket when they're trying to be 'helpful'. ;)
 
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