I think there is something wrong woth my kids udders. ?
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Question by Elizabeth: I think there is something wrong woth my kids udders. ?
I have a saanen dairy goat she is 5 months old going on 6 and her udders are getting very large. I have not seen a goat do this before . Is it normal for get breed or is there something wrong ,I have been told both. please answer ASAP!
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3 Responses to I think there is something wrong woth my kids udders. ?
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Has this goat been bred or what.
A female animal of 5-6 months of age should not be making bag unless she has been bred and ready to deliver.
I really think you need to get your vet out there to check this animal out.
She is to young to be having a kid of her own.
Pamela D.
March 3, 2013 at 4:09 am
If she has been in contact with a male then it is possible she has been bred. If it’s just her udder getting bigger and she’s acting normal, then it sounds like she has what’s called a Precocious Udder. This is when a young female goat begins to “bag up” or her udder begins to fill with milk like she is expecting kids. This is common, especially in dairy goats. DO NOT milk her. It should just get reabsorbed by the body in a couple weeks. It may help to take her off of grain for that time if she is getting any and just feed her hay. That’s what I do when I am drying off my females after I wean their babies off of them. She may lose a little bit of weight in the process, but that’s not usually a bad thing. If it doesn’t go away after 2-3 weeks, then contact your vet.
farmgirl89
March 3, 2013 at 4:22 am
It sounds like she is a maiden milker. This is what happens when a goat’s hormones get sort of out of whack and they start to produce milk. It is not what you’d call “normal,” but it certainly isn’t uncommon and isn’t dangerous.
Considering that she’s so young, I would just let her dry up (if she was an older doe and you wanted milk, you could try to milk her). It should go away by itself if you don’t milk her – milk is a supply and demand thing and if there’s no demand, the goat’s body will soon cut off the supply. Watch her udder very carefully, though, and if it gets hot and/or hard, she might have mastitis.
I don’t think that this goat has been bred – goat gestation is five months, and if she’s bagging up, she’d have to be pretty far along in her pregnancy (some does develop udders a month or two before their due date, others barely have an udder until they kid). Still, has she been with any bucks? Bucks have been known to successfully breed does at 2 months old – and that includes their 2 month old sisters. And sperm can live in their “tubes” for a few days after castration, so if you castrated an older buck and then put him in with the does immediately, he could have gotten her pregnant. It’s possible, but as I said before, I think that being a maiden milker is much more likely.
L
March 3, 2013 at 4:39 am