I am a nervous wreck over these pregnant goats. Trixie is due on March 30. I noticed yesterday that her feet looked a little swollen and she was walking like they hurt her. I googled it and came up with all this stuff on pregnancy toxemia.
I've been feeding her free choice hay, alfalfa every day or two, about a pound and a half of ADM dairy goat feed/day, and veggie peelings from the kitchen, but I guess I've messed something up. I gave her a little molasses and karo syrup yesterday (against the recommendations of a breeder friend).
She was up and about yesterday afternoon to get acorns with the other does. I felt encouraged that she was better until I checked my post on a goat forum and had two people say toxemia.
She's as big as a house! She must have triplets in there. Any suggestions on what to do for her?
I'm sure you have read this.... http://fiascofarm.com/goats/ketosis.htm Wish I could be more help. I hope Trixie gets better soon ☺
ReplyDeleteThanks, I did. I hope I'm just overreacting. The only symptom she has is the swollen feet. Her breathing is a little labored when she's sitting down, but those babies have to be pressing on her insides so I'm not too worried about that. She's eating well still.
DeleteMy doe has a hard time getting up nowadays. I'm thinking it's from the extra weight too. Now I need to go check her ankles :/
DeleteHopefully your girl will kid early, do they even do that? So she can get back to normal. I'm sorry your nervous, but I'm glad that even a seasoned goat mamma is as nervous and anxious as I am. We will get through it, hopefully with a little bit of our sanity left and some cute goat babies :)
I am not giving advice and I am the first to admit that I am not an expert, but my doe just went through this. I gave her calcium tablets crushed up in plain raw milk yogurt, Red cell, plenty of warm molasses, brown sugar, kayro syrup, baking soda and some sea salt water. Don't over feed them at this stage. I also just got kelp for my goats and sheep. They love it. Also got the goat mineral block, which they fought over. I hope she is feeling better. Mine go around like they can hardly move and then have a single kid. They are such drama queens!
ReplyDeleteThat's good to hear. She's waddling her big ole self around and grunting when she's sitting down. After more research I feel better that it is not toxemia.
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