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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 15:15:15 GMT
Hi all i have a 4 year old nigerian dwarf doe that had a set of twins 3 days ago. The issue is that 1 side of her milk bag is swollen to prob 3 times the other side. Its sooo big and hangs so low that the babies cant get on to her on that side. I can milk her by hand and get lots of clean looking milk. No lumps or blood or anything abnormal. Her milk came in about 2 weeks before she gave birth. This is her 3rd set of babies and has always been a great mother. I feed a clover hay and supplement with a sweet feed/ cracked corn mix. She gets maybe a half quart scoop per day. Any ideas???
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 14:09:29 GMT
What Redfish said.
You can milk her out on both sides, and tape or otherwise block the teat on the kids' preferred side. They'll discover that there are two spigots, and even things out.
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Post by trailrider on Apr 28, 2015 18:27:21 GMT
One of my 2 year old FFs did the same thing this year (even though she had triplets.). I milked out the other side everyday for a while, as soon as the kids were strong enough they took to the other side and never looked back.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 23:41:28 GMT
Yep, I agree with everyone else. I've had boer kids favor one side for a week until the finally realized there were 2 teats. Keep her milked out so she doesn't lose production in that side. Then I would keep trying to get them to nurse on that side after you has milked it out enough for then to get to it. Might take a few days of work tho. Congrats on twins!!
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