Annie is almost exactly 3 months along and there is a noticeable change in her udder. I dried her off back in Sept. Well, started dryign her off. I'm not sure when exactly she started to look really empty.
But anyway, it doesn't look like it's filling with milk at the bottom, like right above her teats. More like enlarged in the upper rear area? I can try to take a pic.
At any rate, is it normal to see something like that at 3 months...just a subtle change that it's bigger? she is 96 days I think. Merry Christmas by the way :)
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You guys are a riot! I was at a friend's open house Friday evening and another goat person was there; we discussed ways you can tell a goat owner like them discussing fecal samples. I told him that if you had told me two years ago I would be discussing some of the things I do (like fecals, teat size, udders, breeding methods, etc.), I would have said you lost your mind. Yet, here I am. LOL!
Oh, that is so funny and true!
Margaret Langley said:
You are so funny, Margaret! (Ning needs to add "Like" buttons for comments!)
Kinda like some people, huh? LOL!
Sorry, I didn't mean it to sound that rigid. Once they freshen, their udder doesn't go back to normal if you're breeding them every year. I have no idea what would happen if you didn't breed them again for a long time because I've never done that. Although I do have a 14 year old doe that hasn't been bred since she was 9. She just has really long teats and some loose skin back there.
Well...neither Penny or Annie had a full lactation. I dried Penny up at 8 months, Annie I think would have been 7 months then when I dried her up. Annie wasn't even nearly full when I bought her, as she had kidded a few weeks prior and not been milked regularly.
They still had milk to re absorb or at least an udder of sorts when they got bred but it then went away...
Anyway they are not on the normal schedule.
Love Rachel's response!
And BTW, once a goat has freshened, if you're milking her for a full lactation and breeding to kid annually, their udder never really disappears between end of lactation and next kidding.
EVERYTHING ELSE, of course!! lol
Juliana Goodwin said:
LOL!! :D
Juliana Goodwin said:
oh okay...good. So what should I worry about then... ? lol
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