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A precocious udder should be soft to the touch. If it is hard, hot, lumpy, feels like a 'sand bag', there is mastitis. I never milk them out. I've had both mature animals like yours as well as spring born doelings get precocious udders, and they are monitored and nothing bad comes of it. Dona Barski, DVM.
3. Clean the teat end with a cotton ball soaked in 70% alcohol. 4. Collect a milk sample in a sterile container preferably a sterile test tube. 5. Be sure the sample is labeled with the animal number/name and right or left half. Include a note stating what test you would like done (mastitis).
Most times that means you got a gallon per day milker in waiting! Her mother is a little grade Alpine, still milking 16 months into her lactation, and showing no signs of stopping. She was milking over a gallon a day at her peak. Her grandmother is a good quality Saanen, giving 6 litres at her peak this year.
I also have another doe that has always been precocious. I did breed her every other year but she came into milk every Spring whether I bred her or not. I started just milking her through. She would slow down on production in the winter but pick right back up in the Spring. If you have one, milk her.
Very large swellings on the belly very well could be the milk veins. It could also be edema, but identify the milk veins first. They can be quite large. Dona Barski, DVM. "Breed the best, eat the rest". Caprice Acres. Small herd of French and American Alpines. CAE, Johnes neg yearly. CL abscess free herd.
445 posts · Joined 2009. #4 · May 5, 2009. My garden borders the fence for the cows. They've never messed with any of the plants you've mentioned. If they felt so inclined, they could have stuck their heads through and eaten any of them, but didn't. However, the plants weren't attached to the fence. They have eaten a few pea plants in the past.
Remove the buck kids at 6 weeks and continue to feed them milk. Either by holding its dam two-three times a day or put them on lambars. I do not suggest ever weaning a kid younger than 8 weeks.They need that milk. I wean the kids a different ages, depending upon the individual animal. Three I weaned at 9/10 weeks.
Though precocious lactations happen (not nearly as common as a true pregnancy), it is a better indicator than belly size. As for kids moving - The rumen makes massive contractions 2-3x per minute. In pregnant animals this is best seen on the LEFT side, but in non-pregnant animals you can usually easily see these shifts on both sides to some degree.
Goats can be precocious and have milk when they are not pregnant. They have the wax plugs until they freshen and either the kids or you remove them by milking her. You don't want to remove the plugs before they kid. The plugs seal out bacteria. In removing the plugs you risk the doe getting mastitis.
1022 posts · Joined 2003. #3 · Jun 6, 2013. I had actually considered Kinders some time back. I am just having a hard time deciding. lol. My husband decided for me and said to go with Nigerians because they have good milk and are easier to handle. But then he asked about crossing with a Pygmy for meatier kids.