We have a 3 year old doe who is in standing heat and the 5 month old ND buckling won't mount her. He has been mounting everything around him the last three months and won't do the job now!
He's also nursing on her. She doesn't let her own kids nurse on her and yet she just letting this buckling nurse when she's in standing heat.
Okay so something odd to try if you want her bred now, Put his nose up to her lady bits and then take her head and make her hit him on the side or the butt. If he blubbers a little at her do it again. try to be out there and any time he tries to nurse make her hit him again. Not hard just enough to push him off a little.
I wish I was more patient. Ugh! I decided to take the almost 2 year old Nubian buck and breed the brown doe. He bred her immediately, several times. I'm disappointed in myself because I really wanted mini Nubians, but I panicked earlier today. Another issue I'm up against is this Nubian buck may have been exposed to chlamydia last year and we wanted to keep him with the doe that is suspect to have it. She has a history of an early birth and then an early miscarriage. If she indeed has chlamydia, she may have transmitted it to the Nubian buck last year. We only treated the black doe with antibiotics. The vet thought the buck was fine. I do trust him, but I just don't know enough and don't want to make very expensive mistakes.
Anyway, I hope this all turns out. Not what I was hoping for.
If you do indeed have Chlamydia in your herd, the kids within have no chance for survival.
You will have to treat the goats for it.
It is a big battle keeping it at bay for a few years.
The vet is involved, and for whatever reason, he feels the buck is likely clean. We hadn't had the buck when the black doe lost her babies three weeks early. We then got him and he bred her and she then had an early miscarriage. I guess we shall see what happens in the spring. The vet agreed to have the black doe's placenta tested after she births in the spring, if she gets that far. Now I'm considering testing the brown doe's placenta, although, if she kids just fine in the spring, then is that a guarantee of no chlamydia?
If no aborting issues are happening late term.
The does are carrying babies full term and the placenta is tested and found to be clean, then yes, the buck who has bred that doe tested, should by rights be clean as well.
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