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Thin doeling?

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We've had this girl since 3 weeks old. Recently I feel like she is too thin. I thought the others were forcing her out of the feeder sooo I feed her separate. She hasn't really put on any weight. No issues with parasites either.

Could she just be a petite doe? Something else going on? She's 9 months. The last pic is her the day we brought her home. I noticed looking at that pic, she was a thinner goat then too.
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We got her from a friend that we see regularly. She lets them get colostrum and then bottle feeds because she sells the babies. We bottle fed her ourselves from 3 weeks on. We have never treated her for cocci. If that was her problem, would she have made it this long? She's energetic and acts like our other ones, just very passive (bottom goat since they came back) with the other does.

Good questions from @Suzanne_Tyler; but in addition to her questions, what's her body score?

I have one line in particular that is *very* dairy, and very milky, they put anything extra they have into the milk bucket. They always, always look skinny to my eye, whether doe in milk or doeling. When my first doe in that line freshened, I went through multiple fecals, additional disease testing, nutritional interventions, you name it! I was pulling my hair out, certain I was missing something, looking at this too-skinny doe who was milking tons... until I finally ended up in touch with her breeder, who told me that she looked fine for her line, that her dam (& dam's dam) was just very dairy, and did I know how to do a body condition score? No, I didn't, but I do now :). She looks thin but her bcs is completely healthy. SO, please follow up on a fecal, but consider her body condition too; seeing a goat isn't the same as getting your fingers on them.

Here's a good video on it, although there's lots of good resources out there to show you how to do it:
I did not know anything about a body score. I will look at this!
 
#3 Ā·
Good questions from @Suzanne_Tyler; but in addition to her questions, what's her body score?

I have one line in particular that is *very* dairy, and very milky, they put anything extra they have into the milk bucket. They always, always look skinny to my eye, whether doe in milk or doeling. When my first doe in that line freshened, I went through multiple fecals, additional disease testing, nutritional interventions, you name it! I was pulling my hair out, certain I was missing something, looking at this too-skinny doe who was milking tons... until I finally ended up in touch with her breeder, who told me that she looked fine for her line, that her dam (& dam's dam) was just very dairy, and did I know how to do a body condition score? No, I didn't, but I do now :). She looks thin but her bcs is completely healthy. SO, please follow up on a fecal, but consider her body condition too; seeing a goat isn't the same as getting your fingers on them.

Here's a good video on it, although there's lots of good resources out there to show you how to do it:
 
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So I talked to my friend that I got her from. She says that she had to feed extra to her mother as she's always seemed thinner. So we believe it's in her line. The mother's dam was not like that but she thinks mayve in a bucks line.
 
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