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| sunflowercritters |
Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 1:30:02 PM
have a question? My year old doe just got butted by another goat in the utter. My question is little blood showed up when I milked her that day. Next day she was clear from blood but her utter is very hard. I've put hot pack, rubbed her utter. But it still is very hard. What elso or what should I do to get it back soft again? It is very hard to milk her as well.
Thanks for any help out there!
farmgirl #462
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| sunflowercritters |
Posted - Feb 08 2010 : 10:40:25 AM
my doe still hard but i did test her for mastic it she doesn't have that. Thank goodness. she acts fine and all but still very hard in that one utter. She still gives milk well.. Thanks again for all your help ladies
farmgirl #462
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Feb 08 2010 : 07:49:24 AM
Debra, how's the doe today? Just checkin'.
Kris
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 3:12:48 PM
Debra, that happened to one of mine a few years back. She did end up getting mastitis and it took a few months to get her back to good milk. If she does have mastitis (and I would get a kit and test her for sure) then you can use something called Masti-clear. It says it's for cows but you can use it for goats. You just shoot up this medicine from a syringe into the teat. But test her first to make sure. And do not drink the milk. Have you been drinking it? How does it taste? If it's salty then it could be mastitis. I hope it's not but keep doing the hot packs. Good luck. Let us know what you find out. And lucky you for having a goat in milk right now. I have to wait til the middle of April.
Kris
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| Farmtopia |
Posted - Feb 07 2010 : 1:39:41 PM
Debra, sounds like her uDDer has an infection. There are supposedly basic strip cup tests out there (not sure, at the feed store), that will tell you if she has an elevated white cell count, which indicates some sort of infection in there--you just milk a few droplets of milk from the infected teat (if possible), through the strip test and it should let you know.
If that doesn't work, I'd really seek the advice of a vet. I don't know if she could get mastitis from such a blow, but it's not really good that the udder is so hard, after the fact. Maybe the other farmgirls have better advice.
Good luck
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