Hi all
I was wondering if Emah's background could have to do with what I am noticing with her triplets.
Emah was rescued from a place that sold goat milk. They would let each kid born drink colostrum..and then make bottle babies out of them. As they wanted the milk to sell.
I have been watching Emah and the kids since 7:30 am.
The kids come to her...nuzzle her looking for milk...she doesn't encourage them, rather walks away looking for something to graze/nibble on. She has never done what our sheep and cow and dogs and cat do....help keep their butts clean or incite them to poop.
I got a warm rag and began cleaning their little bottoms...and it was like I pulled a plug...they all went and went and went, my nice white shirt lol..its a nice yellow one now!
She has never raised babies before, and I think its at least the fifth or sixth time for her to kid..from what I gathered from the lady I got her from.
I keep trying to encourage the kids to latch on to her...but other than a suck or two they give up.
I really rather they take turns nursing...are their any hints out there to get them to do this?
I used the milk I just milked her at 2pm to feed to them..the bucklings gulped down 5 oz each..the doeling showed no interest and has not nursed at all today..I got about 3 oz into her.
Thanks for your patience with me.. I put a pic of them in the thread looking for Sonja from Plain Vision.
blessings,
Tamar
I was wondering if Emah's background could have to do with what I am noticing with her triplets.
Emah was rescued from a place that sold goat milk. They would let each kid born drink colostrum..and then make bottle babies out of them. As they wanted the milk to sell.
I have been watching Emah and the kids since 7:30 am.
The kids come to her...nuzzle her looking for milk...she doesn't encourage them, rather walks away looking for something to graze/nibble on. She has never done what our sheep and cow and dogs and cat do....help keep their butts clean or incite them to poop.
I got a warm rag and began cleaning their little bottoms...and it was like I pulled a plug...they all went and went and went, my nice white shirt lol..its a nice yellow one now!
She has never raised babies before, and I think its at least the fifth or sixth time for her to kid..from what I gathered from the lady I got her from.
I keep trying to encourage the kids to latch on to her...but other than a suck or two they give up.
I really rather they take turns nursing...are their any hints out there to get them to do this?
I used the milk I just milked her at 2pm to feed to them..the bucklings gulped down 5 oz each..the doeling showed no interest and has not nursed at all today..I got about 3 oz into her.
Thanks for your patience with me.. I put a pic of them in the thread looking for Sonja from Plain Vision.
blessings,
Tamar