This is not happening again. I saw it happening and I did nothing. We had to intervene to get Flora to nurse at all. We had to hold her still and we got Ruby on the teat. We never got Fauna on it. We figured (hoped) that since she nursed one, she would have it figured out and nurse the other.
I looked in this morning and my heart sank. But, I hoped I was over reacting. After all, I do have a tendency to over react when it comes to the animals. She was away from the other two, laying down, and shivering. But I told myself that she is fine. That Flora was just tending the other one. If she wasn’t fine, she wouldn’t be softly bleating and holding her head up.
We went to church and went to the visitation and came home. I looked on the monitor (yes, we have a camera and monitor set up) and didn’t like what I saw. I quickly changed, ran out to the kidding stall and not only did Flora never nurse her; she ended up outright rejecting her. I tried to bring her to Flora and Flora ran from her.
I brought her in and gave her Goat Drench, a vitamin B shot, and a couple of teaspoons of colostrums that we saved from when we milked Flora a week ago.
Will it be enough to bring her back from the edge? I don’t know.
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