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  1. Goat Management
    Hi everyone! I have a doe who is pregnant and has 35 days left to kid. She wasn't super interested in her grain this morning but she did eat most of it. I looked at her udder yesterday and it looked pretty normal but today it seems to have almost doubled in size. It hasn't popped but I am...
  2. Health & Wellness
    Mom was getting aggressive towards her (slightly early) triplets and I ended up having to pull them. They were trying to nurse and could have bitten or injured this side? The other side had a small open scab that healed up. This side has not healed up, it was originally a bump that got a reddish...
  3. Waiting Room
    I am new to goats within the last year, this will be my first kidding season. I have a ND goat that was bred multiple times September 30th and then went into heat again October 20th and again, was bred by the buck multiple times. Since then we've had a different buck around for my Nubian does...
  4. Health & Wellness
    So my 7 year old doe sometimes gets bumps on her udder. They come and go, sometimes opening and draining and sometimes not. It tends to happen more in the summer when things are dry here. Not a regular thing but still happens occasionally. However, today I noticed two of them on her vulva...
  5. Health & Wellness
    One of my does who's due in a month or so got her bag in and it is extremely heavy and she seems very uncomfortable. I've felt it, it isn't hard or infected, just very full of milk. I tested one teet (just a quick squirt) and the milk was a normal color. She has no fever. Is there anything I...
  6. Goat Conformation
    Hello, curious what you guys think about this girl. She is a mini Nubian and is a FF with a single buckling. the buckling has been weaned and I am currently milking twice a day. She freshened on March 4.
  7. Health & Wellness
    Hello, We have a goat, Blanche, who we just found this weird looking mass underneath her. My wife said these are where her two other teets are and it looks those as if they receded up into her and looks like a possible infection maybe. It did ooze something out when she cleaned out as well as...
  8. Dairy Diaries
    Hello everyone! I’m new to The Goat Spot, and new to owning goats, though I have a lot of support from other, more experienced, goat owners. Thanks for taking the time to read my post! I have a 2 year old Lamancha doe who is a fairly high producer, shes actually my best. She was bred in...
  9. Goat Conformation
    Hello all, I am new to the Goat Spot and had a question. I am interested in buying some mini Nubian doelings from a breeder. I would be using them for breeding, so I asked the breeder for a picture of their dam's udder. She sent me this one: What are your opinions? Would the doeling's udders...
  10. Goat Conformation
    I’m so excited to share this. In case some of you dont know, my first ND doe was a purchase I should’ve done more research on. We got a doe who at the time was a first freshener, didnt do any digging on her lineage. The more I learnt, the more disappointed I was. She barely gave anything during...
  11. Beginners Goat Raising
    Hello, My goats udders were injured and she ended up losing one of her nipples. She is a heavy milker so her bags get quite large and shes slow to dry up. Will this become a problem next kidding season? How can I avoid mastitis in the future?
  12. Beginners Goat Raising
    Hello!! We need help, we have a Lamancha/Pygmy mix goat who gave birth to 4 babies yesterday evening. We have been up all night trying to get them to latch on. They try and tug, but stop. They are clearly hungry and we know we will need to supplement feed, but we are desperately trying to get...
  13. Dairy Diaries
    Hello. I'm looking at buying this Nigerian dwarf in milk. Attached are pics of her udder and teats. I was hoping a more experienced eye might have an opinion on them. I have pics of her dam and granddams as well if that helps. She is 3, giving about 5.5 cups per day. Owner asking $650...
  14. Health & Wellness
    I’ve been dealing with this for quite some time. I bought a doe from what I thought was a reputable breeder. Sadly, to my mistake I introduced her to my herd after quarenteening her with no signs of anything. The breeder out of no where tells me she has been dealing with a bad case of bumps on...
  15. Health & Wellness
    My doe is currently going through her first lactation and nursing two, healthy, 10 week old kids. I went away for 2 days and on returning noticed she had a lesion and a swollen lump high up on the middle of her udder, not near the teats. The kids are nursing from both sides okay and she's not...
  16. Health & Wellness
    Hello, friends. I have a miniature lamancha who's about a week fresh. I noticed the babies had a favorite side, so I decided to even her out. This favorite side has a bump up near the top of the udder, towards the medial. It's large and fleshy. I reached out to my vet and unfortunately they...
  17. Waiting Room
    I didn’t realize how much she had grown in the past 11 days until I did a side by side, but still is this swelling the end or will it get bigger? Udders look huge when I google them but they’re all usually dairy goat breeds and she is a meat a boer/fainting and I can’t tell if their udders are...
  18. Health & Wellness
    Hi, my doe kidded with twins just yesterday, everything went smooth and they are feeding, but only from one teat. The other udder is extremely engorged, hard and when I tried to milk her, completely plugged. We tried lots of massaging (she seemed to enjoy that!) hot compresses, bag balm...
  19. Health & Wellness
    So this is a weird one. I've got two pregnant does, one who is 105 days into her second pregnancy, and one who is a first freshener at 82 days. The first freshener is probably carrying triplets (we can see two on ultrasound for sure, vet thinks she is hiding another one up front). I have been...
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