Since my buck runs with the doe's I thought there would be no trouble.Well every time one gets breed, they are carrying them twomonth's,other doe about 3 months next doe about 4 month's.What could be the trouble.

-- Pastor Hughes (hbchurch@brightok.net), February 12, 2002

Answers

Perhaps you need to test your herd for clamydia.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 12, 2002.

clamydia. what is this

-- Pastor Hughes (hbchurch@brightok.net), February 12, 2002.

I guess you could call it the venereal disease of goats (humans also) which is a leading cause of abortion.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 13, 2002.

Could also be that once they are bred and in longer coming into heat, the buck is buttting them? Just a thought as I have noticed this when I kept a Ram in with my ewes too long.

-- Kate henderson (kate@sheepyvalley.com), February 13, 2002.

Is it possible they're eating some kind of weed in the pasture that they shouldn't?

-- Dee Jarvis (deejarvis@aol.com), February 13, 2002.

The next dead fetus, pick it up and all the material with gloves and have a necropsy done. Spend some time on the phone right now to find the cheapest place. Not happening around here but some Universities do them for free! Find someplace and then have the kid and hopefully the placenta tested. Chlymydia like Diane said, your buck could be passing this around to all the does, though that is just the tip of the iceberg. The babies are the source of the infection also so keep them cleaned up. Your buck needs to have his penis cleaned, nolvasan or any kind of sheath cleaner works, easier to do if you have a doe in heat. I am sure there is a protocoal to use, haven't and idea what drugs. Might want to put aureomycin in your grain for awhile, if this is chlaymydia than the does who are aborting now will not next year, they build immunity. Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), February 14, 2002.