Goat Kid Only Nursing One Side

However with dam raised kids that are nursing it s often because the kids are nursing unequally.

Goat kid only nursing one side. I pulled one of the kids off. Didn t want to let her doeling. First the milk was white and had blood on the bottom then it got pink i took her to the vet he said it was not mastitis and its a broken vessels and should get better.

For example about two and a half weeks after blackberry kidded with magnolia and aztec i noticed that one side of her udder was smaller than the other. It happened with my doe that had a kid a week and a half ago. They pick a teat they like and stick with this totally ignoring the other teat.

Hello my goat had her kids 3 weeks ago they started nursing just on one side so on the third day i started milking the full side. The kid is probably only nursing off of one side that is common when there is only a single kid and it makes the udder look lopsided. Mar 2 2014 1.

I had another doe who had triplets. I ended up having to milk that side for a few days and then the kid seemed to catch on perhaps because she was getting bigger and hungrier. Often when a doe has only one kid and sometime when she has two it is very common for the kid s to nurse only one side.

One year i had a doe who only had one kid and that kid nursed only one side. She refused to drink the bottle so i put the doe with the single on the stand and let the baby nurse her full side. If it is milk i pasteurize it and feed it to my bottle babies.

Either the kid is keeping one side empty and it looks to you like it s drying up when in fact it is probably producing more milk than the other. A goat s udder is in two sections. This is especially prevalent with only one kid but it happens with two kids too.