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    HARVEST MONEY KID MGT Kid MGT 2023

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    This document discusses kid management for goat farming. It provides information on kidding seasons, preparation for kidding, caring for newborn kids, housing, feeding, health care, and managing diarrhea in young kids. The main points covered are timing kidding to coincide with abundant feed availability, vaccinating pregnant does, providing colostrum to newborns, fostering or bottle feeding kids if necessary, gradually introducing solid food, deworming, and ensuring clean and dry housing to prevent health issues in young kids. The overall goal of kid management is profitable growth of the goat flock through increased offspring survival and productivity.

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    HARVEST MONEY KID MGT Kid MGT 2023

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    This document discusses kid management for goat farming. It provides information on kidding seasons, preparation for kidding, caring for newborn kids, housing, feeding, health care, and managing diarrhea in young kids. The main points covered are timing kidding to coincide with abundant feed availability, vaccinating pregnant does, providing colostrum to newborns, fostering or bottle feeding kids if necessary, gradually introducing solid food, deworming, and ensuring clean and dry housing to prevent health issues in young kids. The overall goal of kid management is profitable growth of the goat flock through increased offspring survival and productivity.

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    This document discusses kid management for goat farming. It provides information on kidding seasons, preparation for kidding, caring for newborn kids, housing, feeding, health care, and managing diarrhea in young kids. The main points covered are timing kidding to coincide with abundant feed availability, vaccinating pregnant does, providing colostrum to newborns, fostering or bottle feeding kids if necessary, gradually introducing solid food, deworming, and ensuring clean and dry housing to prevent health issues in young kids. The overall goal of kid management is profitable growth of the goat flock through increased offspring survival and productivity.

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    HARVEST MONEY KID MGT Kid MGT 2023

    Uploaded by

    Marjorie Kiyimba
    This document discusses kid management for goat farming. It provides information on kidding seasons, preparation for kidding, caring for newborn kids, housing, feeding, health care, and managing diarrhea in young kids. The main points covered are timing kidding to coincide with abundant feed availability, vaccinating pregnant does, providing colostrum to newborns, fostering or bottle feeding kids if necessary, gradually introducing solid food, deworming, and ensuring clean and dry housing to prevent health issues in young kids. The overall goal of kid management is profitable growth of the goat flock through increased offspring survival and productivity.

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    KID MANAGEMENT

    Facebook: @Grace Bwogi


    Website: www.bwogifarms.com
    BY GRACE BWOGI
    YouTube: Bwogi farms Uganda 0702 850 600
    KID MANAGEMENT
    WHY KID MANAGEMENT?
    • Profits
    • Increase in flock size
    • CONSEQUENTLY increase your off take
    1.1 KIDDING SEASON
    • Coincide with times of abundant feed availability
    • December –to February period, August - Dec
    DOES FOR KIDDING
    • Does - de-wormed 1 -3 month prior to kidding.
    • Vaccinate all pregnant three months before kidding
    • Clostridia infections
    • Watch for sign of pregnancy toxemia/ ketosis
    - loss of appetite, animal not wanting to get up or move around,
    - sweet smelling breath, limping and swelling of feet walking very
    tenderly.
    KID MANAGEMENT CTN.
    • Kidding when there's no enough feeds – not good
    Preparation
    • Kidding area - clean with dry bedding (grass).
    • Doe may - keep in the kidding area for a few days
    • Bonding
    • A goat that is about to kid;
    Restlessness, separating itself from the flock, discharges mucus etc
    Kid mgt contd...

    At birth
    Keep undisturbed for two to four hours

    When to intervene in the birth process:


    • Mal-presentation or difficulties in kidding.
    • When the kid does not bleat or breathe
    • Remove the membrane over the nostrils.
    • Cut navel if assisted birth.
    • Iodine - unnecessary if bedding is clean.
    KID HOUSING
    • Keep the kids at home for the first 0-3 months
    • Warm and dry conditions
    • Protect kids from heat, cold or diseases among kids
    • Bedding - if kept clean and fresh, its Easy to detect diarrhea
    Feeding kids
    • Suckle the first milk (colostrum) – 6hrs
    • Colostrum – has antibodies that kids need to develop resistance to
    disease.
    • Fostering or bottle feeding is recommended if;
    Feeding kids contn.
    • Insufficient milk from mother, the kids
    should be foster – fed
    • Under weight kids
    • Born triplets / twins
    - Milk from cows - dilute
    - Milk replacer – served warm
    Kid mgt Cont...

    • 4 weeks - kids start nibbling grass and


    leaves
    • Effective grazing with the big herd 5 -6
    months
    • 5 -6 months can be castrated
    • Males born at 3kgs+. Don’t castrate
    HEALTH CARE

    Health care in kids


    Look out for diarrhea & for respiratory problems
    ∙ Make sure bedding is clean and dry
    ∙ Do not confine many kids in a small area
    ∙ Avoid damp conditions and excessive heat or cold
    ∙ Avoid overfeeding kids with milk - Scours.
    ∙ Deworm when kids start nibbling on grass
    ∙ Weaning- 3 to 4 months=
    ∙ Complete separation (6months)
    Health care in kids ctn...

    • Treat for coccidiosis


    • Use amprolium (best) / sulhamethazine
    /sulphadimidine/ or potentiated sulphonamids
    eg norodine.
    Vaccination of kids
    • Does – vaccinated at 3 months pregnant and
    above for clostridials
    Health care in kids ctn...
    ▪ Give a booster doze after 21 to 30 days
    Other key vaccinations
    CCPP ( Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia)
    PPR (Peste des Petitis Ruminants)
    Brucellosis Consult your Vet
    Scouring in young goats – Diarrhea
    • Overeating
    • Infections
    • E.coli – occurs - first week of life if colostrum was not enough.
    • Cryptosporidiosis – 2 -3 weeks ol (usually combined with Ecoli).
    Health care in kids ctn.
    • More common in young kids. It is a zoonosis.
    • Clostridium perfringesn type C, Rotavirus and caprine herpes – neonata
    diarrhea.
    • Coccidiosis – seen in animals older than one month.
    • Nematode parasitism – animals older that one month.
    • Enterotoxaemia – seen in all ages
    • Salmonellosis
    • Rotavirus type A and Coronavirus infections
    Health care in kids ctn.
    Management of scouring in kids
    • Administer antibiotics to scouring kids
    • Good management
    • Feed on colostrum
    • Avoid overcrowding
    • Keep house for kids dry and clean
    • Remove fecal material from the houses and keep the floor dry.
    • Vaccination. Done prior to birthing so that colostrum has adequate
    protective antibodies.
    END
    PRESENTED BY;
    GRACE BWOGI
    CONTACTS

    O702 850 600

    @gracebwogi

    Bwogi farms

    Thank You

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