Expectation of issue - very responsible period for owners of dairy goats. Good care for animal during pregnancy, the reasonable program of power supply and the correct conditions of keeping will provide normal development of future kids, health of goat and good yields of milk. To stop milking - "starting" goat - it is necessary because if during active development of fruit the goat gives large amount of nutrients with milk, then its organism will quickly be exhausted, and after the delivery the posterity will be nothing to feed with it.
Instruction
1. Organize goat covering the producer. At the time of copulation the goat has to be absolutely healthy and have good weight. It is the best of all to organize covering in the machine. It is impossible to couple animals who are in close relationship.
2. Make sure that your goat is pregnant. It is possible to make sure that your goat is pregnant by means of ultrasound. It is one of the easiest, harmless and inexpensive ways.
3. In the first half of pregnancy give to goat fodder beet and other molokogonny forages. In spite of the fact that in the first half of pregnancy the development of fruit happens very slowly and does not demand big expenses of nutrients, the goat has to save up enough fats and proteins for future lactation.
4. Daily walk goat. Duration of walks has to be of 20 min. till two o'clock, depending on weather. It is worth stopping walks in 10-15 days prior to childbirth.
5. In the second half of pregnancy it is necessary it is abundant to feed goat with nutritious forage as during this period there is active development of fruit. Cancel the forages fermenting.
6. In 2-2.5 months prior to childbirth it is necessary to reduce sharply or, even, completely to exclude juicy and molokogonny forages from goat diet and to twice reduce the volume of concentrates.
7. You milk goat twice a day, in the first week of start.
8. Reduce milkings to once a day in the second week.
9. After decrease in yields of milk to 250-350 g, you milk goat in one-two days. If milk yield decrease slowly, limit amount of swill and you feed only with hay.
10. Stop milking goat. After start gradually, within 4-5 days, restore former norm of forage.
11. You watch closely condition of udder - it has to be soft, without any consolidations.