Does anyone have suggestions or thoughts on regimens to prep your does for breeding? How much does nutrition play in getting multiples on the ground and overall health of doe and kids?
Claudette
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Search "flushing doe goat" and you can find out about what I believe to be a very old practice. It explains how diet change can be used to increase fertility. conception and multiples
The important thing is that the doe is not deficient in selenium or copper. Both play a big role in fertility. If a doe is deficient in either of those, she can wind up not coming into heat or having silent heats (so you don't know she's in heat and don't breed her), or she can wind up aborting in either the first or last month of pregnancy. There are some lengthy discussions on here about copper (maybe selenium too), so you can be sure that you don't have any issues with that.
A good free-choice loose mineral is really important, but you might need additional supplementation if you have well water with a high sulfur or iron content, or if you feed a diet high in alfalfa, which can have a high molybdenum content.