PinkPenguin
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Hi Ya'll!
I've never ran across this and I'm wondering if any of you have and have any recommendations...
We recently bred our favorite bun for the first time.
She has done a great job, despite being a tiny jersey wooly she had six gigantic babies and all have been nice and plump and seem to be eating very well. (She was over-due, and I was actually worried that she was dying and I was going to bring her inside to comfort her as she passed when I found the babies)
My concern isn't with the health of the kits, but with the momma.
She build the most extensive nest I've ever seen. I'm not kidding. It's ridiculously fantastic.
Despite that she pulled hair halfway up her sides, and her front legs are bare, and every day it looks like she has pulled even more. We've now reached the point where she is more than halfway up her sides.
Now she looks like she is developing a skin issue. It looks like maybe she had some bleeding in a few spots, and feels dried out, and her skin is very flaky.
Has anyone else had a doe do this? Do you know of anything I can/should put on her skin to help her?
Is she maybe doing it because of nerves?
She was very cold to the touch so I'm about to go out and winterize her pin and it's barely October! We usually don't need to do that until the end of October, some years not until Thanksgiving or Christmas! I'm going to give her some straw to lay on also, we usually give them all a nice straw nest during the winter, but this is early for us to be doing this.
I've never ran across this and I'm wondering if any of you have and have any recommendations...
We recently bred our favorite bun for the first time.
She has done a great job, despite being a tiny jersey wooly she had six gigantic babies and all have been nice and plump and seem to be eating very well. (She was over-due, and I was actually worried that she was dying and I was going to bring her inside to comfort her as she passed when I found the babies)
My concern isn't with the health of the kits, but with the momma.
She build the most extensive nest I've ever seen. I'm not kidding. It's ridiculously fantastic.
Despite that she pulled hair halfway up her sides, and her front legs are bare, and every day it looks like she has pulled even more. We've now reached the point where she is more than halfway up her sides.
Now she looks like she is developing a skin issue. It looks like maybe she had some bleeding in a few spots, and feels dried out, and her skin is very flaky.
Has anyone else had a doe do this? Do you know of anything I can/should put on her skin to help her?
Is she maybe doing it because of nerves?
She was very cold to the touch so I'm about to go out and winterize her pin and it's barely October! We usually don't need to do that until the end of October, some years not until Thanksgiving or Christmas! I'm going to give her some straw to lay on also, we usually give them all a nice straw nest during the winter, but this is early for us to be doing this.
