Sweet Pea, my doe was born June 4th. She is in heat and my buck, Charger is rutting. Should I let them breed or seperate them?
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Sweet Pea, my doe was born June 4th. She is in heat and my buck, Charger is rutting. Should I let them breed or seperate them?
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thank you!I will separate them and hope she is not pregnant yet. i will keep you posted!
Personally, I would separate them immediately and pray she is not bred. There is of course a chance she is but, I certainly would not want to take the chance of it happening if she isn't. Even if she happens to weigh enough,she is by no means mature enough. No goat 3 1/2 months old is mature enough to be bred. Some 9 year old girls get pregnant too, but they aren't physically mature enough for the demands that pregnancy puts on the body. Not to mention mature enough to be proper mothers. I have been worrying about letting mine that are over a year old breed because they are so small. But I would not let any breed under 6 or 7 months at least, no matter how big they were.
There is a medication called Lutalyse that will terminate a pregnancy. I actually had to pick some up from the vet yesterday because last Sunday our bucks broke through 2 fences and got to this year's kids who range in age from 3 to 6 months. None of the doelings are at a size I'm comfortable breeding so we're going to treat them all. I saw 2 stand to be bred while I was out there but the bucks had been out for 5-10 minutes so I don't know who else they got to. I've read that Lutalyse needs to be used at least a week after breeding, but my vet said at least 10 days. It should also be handled very carefully, or even better not at all, by women of childbearing age as it can apparently "interrupt" human pregnancy as well.
Glenna Rose said:
Is there such a thing as a morning after pill for does in such a risky situation?
If they're currently together and she's in heat then she's already bred. It happens in seconds. I had a very brief buck escapage last year and some 4.5 month old doelings were bred. The deliveries were hard on them because they hadn't grown enough yet even at 9.5 months, and one of them had no clue what to do with her baby because she was just too young.
I'd recommend separating them and hoping that somehow Sweet Pea isn't really in heat and therefore not actually bred. 3.5 months-ish is pretty young for her to be sexually mature so maybe she's acting hormonal but not quite fertile yet.
You really should wait until she is at least 45 pounds. I usually wait until they are at least one year old and 45 pounds. I had a doe last year that was heavy enough, but I wanted her to get a little bigger before I bred her. It's in my opinion, better for the animals overall well being to wait.