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Doe with possible Mastitis? Need help ASAP!

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Pickerington, Ohio
I have a 5 year old doe give birth three days ago. The following day after she birthed, I noticed the fawns had not eaten but she was letting them nurse. She is a very tame doe, so I checked her utter and it did not fill/drop milk. The best way I can described her utter is that it is hard and not filling with milk (it has a flat shape). Only one of the teats is large and the other three are small. The udder also has a "lip" at the end. I could fit my whole hand between the lip of her udder and the underside of her belly. One last thing...I even tried to milk her teats but nothing is coming out...I can't even see a hole at the tips of each teat. 


 


Thankfully, I was able to save her fawns and get them colustrum from another doe. Right now, the mother is in the barn because the vet instructed me to treat her for mastitis. I have been giving her 8cc penicillin sq 2 times a day ( this is the third day). I also gave her oxytosin...and tried warm compresses to the udder. So after all this, there doesn't seem to be any improvement. Such as producing milk or udder softening. Could this be mastitis or something else? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I will try to get some pics. 
 
Usually mastitis is hot and painful to the touch . Sounds like you're treating it the way it should be .
 
Here are a few pics. Hopefully you can see my hand in one of them? I have looked up photos of goats that had mastitis and this does not look like what they had...the goats with mastitis had very large swollen udders.


 


Scott, I think you may be right. At least, I hope that is only the problem. I have never heard of giving them a beer. Is it the yeast that clears them up?
 

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Remi Harrison922761400778160



Will your doe stand there for you to give a shot?




 


No way!...She is super tame, but hates shots. I have someone hold her. But if this problem was with another doe, it would be a real pain. 
 
Has she ever fawned before? Never saw mastitis look this way either. Not saying that isn't it but the cases I saw were like you said.

Scott, what does the beer do?
 
virgil922961400842396



Has she ever fawned before? Never saw mastitis look this way either. Not saying that isn't it but the cases I saw were like you said.

Scott, what does the beer do?




 


She has fawned two other times before. But the second year of fawning, she aborted the fawn because its umbilical cord got severed in utero. I don't know if this previous trauma had anything to do with it?


 


I got her to drink a nice blueberry lager last night, but as of this morning nothing has changed. 
 
You should see results in 24 hrs. I have had to give a second beer but on the third day the doe was going to the refrigerator herself :)
 
Scott Heinrich923041400854282



You should see results in 24 hrs. I have had to give a second beer but on the third day the doe was going to the refrigerator herself :)




 


ok, I will wait and see. The beer must dilate the blood vessels?
 
Scott Heinrich925671401315941



Well????????




 


I gave her a second beer, but nothing really changed. She hasn't dried up and she is very protective of her fawn, so I let the fawn stay with her and just bottle feed it. The fawn still tries to nurse and I noticed today that the smaller teats were getting larger. Maybe she will come out of it on her own?
 

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