On the 12th day after the CIDRs
were inserted, it was time to start the hormone
shots for Kattie, our donor doe. The first two
shots of Folltropin®-V were to be in the neck.
Since we had never given shots in this area and
since we wanted this drug to be correctly administrated,
Ken took Kattie to the vet's. (And since all does
needed health certificates prior to travel to
Alabama, this was accomplished at the same time.)
In addition, Corina had been "off"
since the third day after the CIDRs were
inserted. She was not eating; she had a
normal temperature; but she was walking
around with her head down or just laying
around the barn with her head against the
wall. Fecals were checked for parasites,
and blood tests conducted. Our vet could
find nothing wrong with her, and three days
later, when the results of the blood tests
were received, her name was added to the
health certificate.
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Bottles |
The first shot, in the afternoon, was 1.5 cc
of Folltropin®-V, a medicine that came in
two bottles that had to be mixed. (One bottle
was the drug itself; the second bottle was a
sterile Diluent.) The next morning Kattie got
1.5cc. That afternoon she got another 1.25 cc.
On day 14 she got 1.25 cc in the morning and
an additional 1 cc in the afternoon. The following
day she got 1 cc in the morning and .75 cc in
the afternoon. Finally, the morning following
the removal of her CIDR she received her last
shot a Folltropin®-V, .5 cc. This last shot
was on breeding day.
On day 15 the CIDRs were removed from all the
recipients. Kattie's CIDR was removed the following
day, and was given 1 cc of Lutylase.
Saturday morning, 17 days after the CIDRs were
originally inserted, was to be breeding day.
Our instructions were to put the buck, Hercules,
in with Kattie 3 to 4 hours after she first
came into standing heat; remove him after he
bred her; then put him back with her twice more
at 6 hour intervals.
Unfortunately Saturday morning when we put
Hercules in the breeding pen with Kattie, she
wasn't the least bit interested in him. He was
willing to do his part, but she was not going
to cooperate. So, we put Hercules in the pen
next to her and left them, checking on them
every two to three hours. By afternoon we realized
this just wasn't working, so we brought another
buck, our most stinky (William), and put him
in a nearby pen in the hopes his "aroma"
would prove to be an arousal for Kattie. She
still wasn't interested.
Finally, around midnight, Kattie was beginning
to show some interest. But we were not sure
Hercules had actually bred her. So we put them
together again at 3 a.m. and again at 6 a.m.
Each time Hercules seemed to be performing,
but Kattie was still a less-than-willing participant.
When we put Hercules in with her at noon on
Sunday, she wasn't at all in a tryst. Indeed,
she tried to hurt him! At this point we decided
she was either bred or she wasn't – no
need to torture the poor buck any longer.
Spring flushes are normally less successful
than fall flushes because you’re breeding
against nature. Boers do breed year around;
but the does do not settle as easily in the
springtime, and the bucks’ libido is somewhat
reduced.
Three days following breeding we inserted a
new CIDR. The purpose of this CIDR is to keep
the donor's system from determining she has
too many fertilized eggs and expelling them.
On Friday at noon the donor and recipients
had to be removed from food and water. We locked
them in the barn since the weather was much
too warm to put them in the trailer. In the
late afternoon, after the temperature had cooled
off considerably, we loaded the goats in the
trailer and moved it to the house where we could
hook it up to the truck and be ready to leave
for Livingston, AL at 4 a.m. the next morning.
The goats, after growing accustomed to their
4 pounds of feed (each) a day were sure we had
cut their throats! They finally settled down
for their long ride to the Lazy L.
One week after the breed date, Kattie was flushed!
