mastitis

Posted by Robin on March 30, 2001 at 14:41:34:

I recently received a goat was said to be a precocious milker (which my vet told me was an impossibility), and the people that owned her had begun to milk her, were told that if she had never had a kid that she would get mastitis from them milking, so they quit cold turkey. She did in fact get mastitis, and at the fair last year she got sick and they had to treat her with medication up inside of her teat. Everything was supposed to be fine now, but when she got here I noticed that her udder was lopsides so I put her in the milking stantion and inspected her closer and found that one side is somewhat hard and enlarged, but not very bad. The other side of her udder is about double the size of the opposite one and it is quite a bit harder inside, but she still milks out. Her milk looks like skim milk, but is not lumpy or bloody, just very watery looking. I do not know very much about mastitis, and after speaking to the vet am not sure what to do. He is a newer vet, and he told me that a goat absolutely cannot have milk unless she has been bred, and have carried at least 4 months. It didn't matter what type of feed, the quality or quantity of feed she received, that she would have to have been with a buck. She is two and until about 4 months ago there had not even been a buck on the property, and he was never put with her when he was there. She is not pregnant and has never been bred. Does anyone hae any suggestions for me? I don't want to put a lot of money into her if I cannot remedy this problem. Thank You.
Robin

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• Re: mastitis Cathy 08:35:30 3/31/2001 (0)
• Re: mastitis Sherry 20:09:24 3/30/2001 (1)
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