The goat season is in autumn. At this time, goat hunting signs appear. This is regulated by nature itself. If conception occurs during this period, the baby will be born by the time the mother can easily get food and produce milk for her baby. Just this time comes to spring. Kids are born and they will not be deprived of food.
The main signs of goat hunting
Like humans, animals have a certain ripening period. An unripe and unprepared organism will not be able to bear a healthy fetus. Farmers usually begin to stimulate the goats to fertilize when they reach 32 kg, and some wait for the animal to gain 40 kg.
Signs of the hunt:
- The external genitalia are slightly inflated, swell, become redder.
- The character of the goat becomes more restless, irritable, aggressive. The female becomes more susceptible to disease.
- The goat becomes susceptible to the smell of a male, constantly sniffing in search of a candidate for fertilization.
- The tail of the animal is in constant motion - such signs of sexual hunting in the goat are the most noticeable.
- She begins to eat less, loses her appetite.
- You can notice the discharge coming out of the genitals, which at a certain period have a different consistency. At the beginning of the hunt, they are liquid and transparent, and by the end of the period they acquire a viscous, thick consistency.
- What are some signs of goat hunting? A noticeable sign is this behavior of the animal. She takes poses showing that she is ready for fertilization, and also behaves quite excitedly, sleeps badly and constantly makes sounds, calling for the male.
Goat hunting promotion
Before breeding animals, farmers try to improve their nutrition in order to best prepare the animal's body for fertilization and gestation. Food is made more saturated and balanced before hunting and mating of goats come. The main signs of hunting will be noticeable better if the female has an organism prepared for this.
Identify various diseases and treat them. The goat’s immunity is also strengthened, as it becomes more susceptible to disease during hunting.
More vitamins, nutritional supplements, and stimulants like nut, flax, and soy appear in the feed.
Veterinary stimulation
If all these actions have not borne fruit, then special medications are used. An injection of the hormone estrofan, which stimulates reproduction, is injected into the animal every 10 days. The result appears after 11 days.
If this drug also did not give results, then they begin to change the dose - progesterone is added to estrofan, after the injection, signs of hunting for goats should appear.
In special cases, hormone-correcting agents are prescribed, in addition, a surrogate is used. Types and doses of drugs can not be chosen independently, otherwise the situation will worsen. For this you need to contact the veterinarian, and he, based on the age, weight and number of lambing, will write out everything you need. Each goat has individual characteristics, so you should not rely on the advice of friends.
Such methods greatly help in the breeding of new offspring and stimulate the signs of goat hunting. Thanks to them, healthy kids are born, and reproductive abilities are restored in females.
Drugs are not the only method of stimulating hunting. In addition to them, there are other effective ways.
How to cause a hunt without the use of medicines?
To induce hunting artificially, you can do without medical means. Housewives who do not trust veterinarians and believe that any injection can worsen the condition of animals resort to this method. The following methods are quite old, but are still in use.
The goat is placed in the pen and the male is brought to it. After these two carry out various manipulations, and after a few days the signs of estrus can be observed in the female.
When the end of summer comes, before the period of hunting, hay is rubbed on the skin of a goat so that it collects its smell. And only months later, in the spring, does this hay fall for lunch to the female.
If you buy a goat, it’s better to immediately take a goat for it and raise animals together. You should not mate animals immediately with a whole herd, since it will be difficult to keep track of each. It will be difficult to determine which animal has already walked and which one is just preparing. It is not always possible to trace when a goat will mate with a goat. Signs of hunting are even harder to track.
There is also a way to force mating. After this, the pregnancy in the animal will proceed normally and the fetus will be born healthy. If fertilization has not occurred after the mating, then again the symptoms will appear after 18 days in the fall or 25-30 in the winter.
These methods will help make your animal prolific, its offspring will be born strong and healthy. Also, the female’s milk will become tasty and healthy.
When can a female happen?
The first signs of hunting in goats can appear in the female at the age of four months. But at this age, it is still not suitable for bearing a fetus. For this purpose, she will be ready only when (as already mentioned) she reaches a weight of 32 kg, some farmers do not allow mating until the female weighs 40 kg.
If you provide the animal with a good balanced diet, it will reach such a mass in 7-9 months. And already at 12-14 months the uterus forms a litter.
How to determine when the goat’s hunt comes? Signs
How long does the female hunt? It is individual, but usually 1-3 days. It happens every 21 days. It is not easy to notice a goat’s hunt if they don’t behave naturally for this period - they don’t wag their tail, don’t call a male and eat normally. The only thing that can indicate a estrus is swelling in the genitals. Skipping this moment is easy, so sometimes you have to constantly drive the females to the goats.
How to determine a goat’s pregnancy?
It is almost impossible to determine whether a goat is pregnant at an early stage. But one can assume a possible pregnancy if, a few weeks after the mating, the goat stops showing signs of estrus. A particularly clear sign will be an increase in the amount of milk. 4 weeks after mating, if fertilization succeeds, the stomach will begin to show through and it will be possible to grope the embryo.
If you are not sure that the pregnancy was a success, then contact your veterinarian. Before going to him, do not feed the animal for 8-12 hours.
It is especially important to visit a veterinarian, in which case, to determine the false pregnancy that occurs due to the death of the baby or hormonal malfunctions. Such conditions can only be determined by specialists.
Goat Pregnancy
Pregnancy is about 5 months (149 days). The goat can bear the fetus a little less or more in time. If there is only one calf in the womb, then the pregnancy will last a little longer, unlike when the goat has several fruits. Goat hunting signs disappear for the entire term.
During pregnancy, you need to help the goat to bear the fetus: give it high-quality feed, walk it in a quiet place, sometimes separately from the herd. Poor feeding, cutting tremors, movements, beating can cause the fetus to die.
Root crops, before feeding a pregnant female, are cooked, and turnips, rutabaga, etc. are not given at all. Better to bring a pregnant goat to the pasture than to keep it in the stall constantly.
In the last stages, it is necessary to care for the animal even better, create a comfortable temperature, keep it in a dry and clean place. Before lambing, in 2-3 weeks, the goat is fed less nutritious food and is no longer milked. But it happens, the udder begins to swell, in this case it is worth trying to milk the goat. But if she starts to kick, then do not touch her. If it is kept in a clean room, then the udder will become inflamed with a low probability.
