{"id":2259,"date":"2012-05-17T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2012-05-17T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:42:26","slug":"q-and-a-mastitis-and-canning-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/05\/17\/q-and-a-mastitis-and-canning-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Mastitis and Canning potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mastitis<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a Nubian doe that I am at the end of my rope with. We got her in early March, paid a bunch for her, and she was supposed to be gallon a day milker. The first couple of days she produced about 3\/4 gallon (milking twice a day) and we attributed that to stress of the move. However it never got better. A few days later she showed signs of mastitis (slightly stringy milk) that tested positive on CMT. She was off her feed so we gave her propylene glycol. We gave her an oxytetracycline injection and TODAY. She cleared up the next day, began eating well only to go on to numerous “other” problems. One day she had a sore foot, we treated it with diesel a couple days and it was well. She’s had numerous episodes of mastitis (treated with penicillin and TODAY). We’ve wormed her twice with ivermectin (injection given orally). She’ll be fine for a couple of days then she’ll stand facing the wall (instead of being eager for the milk stand), won’t eat grain, has clumpy stools, coughs occasionally, yawns repeatedly, and sorta shivers. Her milk is never clumpy, but during her “sick days” it is thicker and sticky and has little globules of oil floating on the top (like you didn’t get a greasy glass quite clean). We don’t use her milk for ourselves, but give it to animals, as she never goes three days without being sick.<\/em><\/p>\n

End of my rope<\/em>
\nNatchitoches, Louisiana<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d guess that your doe still has mastitis and that it’s become chronic. I’d treat her with injectable penicillin for a 7-10 days. Some brands are given daily — others every couple of days. Follow directions with bottle. Don’t use the Tomorrow. I’m not a fan of intermammary mastitis treatment. It often introduces more bacteria and irritates the udder especially if inserted too far into the teat. It should be just pushed in past the muscle that holds the milk in — not way up the teat. Milk her several times a day to drain bacteria out of the udder frequently. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Canning potatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have just dug out my potatoes from late last fall, that I canned, and there is a lot of starch at the bottom of the jars. Yes, I know they are starchy foods, but is it normal? How can I get less starch? I did peel and cut the potatoes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bev Giroux<\/em>
\nOxford, Maine<\/em><\/p>\n

Some varieties of potato seem to have this problem more than others. Did you can in quarts? The longer processing time can cause potatoes to soften and break down the starch. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mastitis I have a Nubian doe that I am at the end of my rope with. We got her in early March, paid a bunch for her, and she was supposed to be gallon a day milker. The first couple of days she produced about 3\/4 gallon (milking twice a day) and we attributed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}