Joy was the order of the day the moment I welcomed a new kid to the family —not a human kid 😂, but my goat that had just given birth. Still, then I had to place the goat in some period of observation, and as I thought it would happen, signs of infection began to show in the udder of the 🐐 goat.
MASTITIS is the name the veterinarian called the infection, and my goats have developed too much occurrence of it just after birth, which has become rather alarming for me.
There are certain glaring symptoms that we normally see in the udder of the goat, and this makes it very easy to spot the presence of the infection, so treatment can begin before it rapidly spreads.
The udder of a mammal, a goat in this case, is meant to house certain hormones and tissues, not infections, and the moment the kid can breastfeed from that infected breast, then the kid has been exposed to that infection.
Most times, it is difficult for the goat to breastfeed the kid because the breast will be swollen, hard, and painful due to the presence of water and blood in extreme cases.
You might be lucky as a farmer if it were one of the best that was infected, but when it is both, then there's a problem, because where will the kid feed from exactly?
But Swift treatment with antibiotics helped clear the infection, and now that the udder is fine, I’m focused on prevention.
Understanding the causes, from dirt to bacterial entry, I can prevent the problem early and protect my goats after future births.