I have a First Freshener Nigerian Dwarf who had 1 kid. Before kidding her udder was uniform, now I notice that her left side seems to always be full and her right side is almost empty. I thought maybe the kid was favoring a side, but I have pulled the kid off her twice now at night and still in the morning her left side is huge and her right side barely has anything even after hand milking. She is milking almost a half quart in the morning and the milk looks, smells and tastes fine. Any idea what might be going on?
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LOL, yea totally wreaked your record didn't they Deborah! Happens to everyone, sooner or later, that confidence thing is real tricky. Gotta have it-Gotta keep it in check!
I TRY RACHEL, THANKS!
Talk about over-confident -- for eight years I never had a problem with a lopsided udder! I thought that I just had smarter kids than everyone else who talked about getting lopsided udders with single kids. :-) Then I was humbled by not one but TWO single kids born a few days apart who gave their mamas uneven udders!
Kelly Wood said:
lol I love your attitude, Margaret.
Oh don't say that, shucks. Sounds just like something that would happen here. We'll say... instead of lazy ...you were a little over confident because things had been going so well! Now, doesn't that sound better. It is more positive!
Yes Margaret, that is what I was asking. LOL Weather it works or not I shall give it a try. At least I know now that she should get back to normal on her second time around. I guess I never thought to look at her udder since she is the 4th one to have a single kid this year and everyone else did fine. Shame on me for being lazy. :-)
I think I remember someone here in the forum posting about getting production back up through milking on a doe that had started to dry on one side... It definitely can't hurt to try!!
Kelly, if you are asking, if the production in that udder can be built back up this time, I would try and see . I wouldn't know about that like most of these folks but if it is not completely dried up then I believe you could build the supply back up. Supply meeting Demand!
This has happened twice in our herd, and in both cases, the doe's udder produced normally her second lactation.
Oh well that sucks. LOL It has been 12 days so I guess that is long enough. I guess there will be no point in taping off the fav. nipple to suck on the non favorite one then. Wish I would have caught it sooner. I am starting to hand milk her in the mornings after pulling the kid at night. If I milk the almost dry side will it ever fill back up again?
Sounds like the kid was favoring one side, and the other side has dried up. It only takes about a week for that to happen. The empty side is the side that the kid didn't nurse on. The full side is the kid's favorite side.
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