{"id":4706,"date":"2013-09-14T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T07:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2013-09-16T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T07:43:09","slug":"thought-midge-mastitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/14\/thought-midge-mastitis\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought Midge Had Mastitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-15-10.43.29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4672\" alt=\"2013-09-15 10.43.29\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-15-10.43.29-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-15-10.43.29-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-15-10.43.29.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday when I tried to milk out Midge, the teat and lower udder felt really thick and hard and I couldn&#8217;t get the milk to start flow at all. \u00a0She had been fine on Thursday and it looked like the injury was improving, although she still wasn&#8217;t letting the kids close. \u00a0I rang the breeder, Andreas from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koonac.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">Koonac<\/a>,\u00a0and he came up in the morning to check her. \u00a0To our huge relief he got the milk flowing and said it wasn&#8217;t mastitis, but more likely she had a congested udder with possibly some scar tissue from when she scraped herself. \u00a0He gave me some teat care cream to massage into her wound and udder twice a day and advised me to keep milking her until the wound healed and we could get the kids back on. \u00a0If we didn&#8217;t keep milking her, that side of her udder could dry off which would mean less available for the kids as they were growing and less for us when we start milking later in the year. \u00a0 Crumpler stepped on her injured teat when climbing on her and poor Midge shot to her feet. \u00a0I hope we can fix her soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday when I tried to milk out Midge, the teat and lower udder felt really thick and hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goats","category-not-so-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-15-10.43.29.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}