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Waiting on these girls

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#1 ·
My first doe kidded on Feb 4th in the middle of a snowstorm, unfortunately we lost both babies. I'm still waiting for our other 4 girls to do something. Two of them are due on the 15th, one isn't due until the 24th but looks and acts like she could go any time, and I thought the other was due on the 9th but I think she has another while to go. Time will tell. The babies we lost were the first kids born here so I'm really hoping for some live babies soon. I'm on high alert, up at all hours checking on them. This is more tiring than having human babies and I had 7 of those [emoji2]
Vertebrate Dog breed Fawn Working animal Tints and shades
Dog breed Fawn Carnivore Working animal Wood
Vertebrate Dog breed Fawn Working animal Tints and shades
 
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#28 ·
I'm on my way back out to the barn now. I don't know his temp yet. Going to check his tummy. He is trying to nurse, he's still strong enough. Son is going to milk Buttercrunch a bit so we can try and give it in a bottle if necessary. The other kid is definitely peeing and pooping, so she's producing. I think I have Vit B so will give it. I have watched him nurse. He's not as vigorous as his brother but looks like he's getting something. We have a heat lamp for them in a small kidding stall. He's almost 48 hours old. Maybe I'm being paranoid and he's just a quiet kid.
 
#29 ·
My son got very little from mom, about half an ounce, but baby Lincoln is looking more busy and followed mom and brother George out of the pen. He fought me when I felt his belly. It doesn't seem overly full or overly empty. It's nice and soft but a little bit rounded. I didn't get a temp but his mouth is nice and warm. I'm hoping that the babies are emptying mom and her milk may not be fully in yet. She was a very good milker last year. I have her milk from the summer frozen, it's not colostrum but it's better than nothing. The little bit of milk we got out looked like regular milk. At the moment I'm just watching him closely so I can act quickly before big trouble like last night. Still waiting for Shorthorn to kid, surprised she didn't do it last night actually
 
#31 ·
So our little guy Lincoln seems to be doing fine. He's not as strong as brother George but George is clearly a dominate little fellow. He's much more aggressive when feeding and seems to think he needs to eat 24/7. I have witnessed Lincoln peeing, that has to be good. He just seems like a timid little buckling. I'm still keeping a close eye on the feeding because I'm pretty sure George is getting the lions share. Lincoln was perky enough to play a game of king of the hill on mom today. Too cute and very funny.
Vertebrate Mammal Dog breed Terrestrial animal Working animal
Goat Dog breed Working animal Fawn Terrestrial animal

George is the black and white one
 
#33 ·
Shorthorn finally kidded yesterday. Pics will come later. It was a quick and easy labor with some troubling results. First kid popped out, a tiny doeling, as soon as I touched her I knew she wouldn't live, she was alive but literally felt like she had no life in her. I helped mom dry her off but she just lay there. Then came a good sized buckling, he was up and finding milk very quickly, all the time while the doeling was laying down, terribly weak. I thought she was done ,but then, along came another doeling. She wasn't quite as small as the first but still half the size of the buck, she was also very weak and made no attempts to stand but this one seemed like she had more life in her. Long story short, I ended up taking both doelings to the house, expecting them both to die. The very small one did but myself and 2 of my daughters worked hard with the other girl. She was clearly very chilled so we put her in a sink of warm water until she began to come around then used a hair dryer and hot water bottle to get her temp above 100. She wouldn't suck on the bottle but tried sucking my fingers. I drip fed her colostrum from Shorthorn for over an hour and all of a sudden, at about 5am, 7 hours after she was born, she stood up and started bleating . She accepted the bottle this morning and we've been feeding her Shorthorns colostrum. She's on my lap right now[emoji2] doing really well. The strange thing was, that when Shorthorn dropped her placenta there was a very small kid came with it. It had all it's bits and pieces but looked severely undergrown, it had no eyes, it was another doeling. What could be going on here. By the way, I named my house goat Orla, and the buckling is doing well with his mom.
 
#36 ·
So we're still waiting on our last 2 girls Olive and Petunia, they are 5 year old ffs, half ND half fainting. I thought I'd post some baby pictures. Both of Buttercrunches boys are doing great. Shorthorns
Dog Dog breed Carnivore Companion dog Terrestrial animal
Dog Dog breed Carnivore Companion dog Terrestrial animal
Dog Dog breed Carnivore Companion dog Terrestrial animal
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Dog breed Working animal Mammal Sheep Terrestrial animal
Goat Terrestrial animal Livestock Goat-antelope Fur
Goat Terrestrial animal Goat-antelope Wood Sheep
little buckling is great and her little bottle baby is also great [emoji3] The first 3 pics are of Orla, our little bottle baby, exploring and meeting the herd, she's also been hanging out with her mom and brother. Mom likes her, licks her but won't feed her. The other 2 pics are of George and Lincoln, Buttercrunches boys.
 
#42 ·
Petunia had a small
Organism Carnivore Dog breed Felidae Fawn
Organism Carnivore Dog breed Felidae Fawn
single doeling just before midnight on my daughters birthday [emoji3] She was pretty wide so I was surprised it was a single, but healthy baby and momma was what I was after. She just dropped the after birth and is looking pretty comfortable. 3 hours since the birth, placenta is out, baby is cleaned, dry and up learning to eat, I'm assuming Petunia is done and I'm off to get some shut eye[emoji18]
 
#47 ·
Thanks, she's pretty adorable. Black and white with brown socks and some brown on her face. Petunia is doing great, she's 5 years old and a FF, she's a very attentive mom, instincts are an amazing thing to watch. Happy to be done with kidding for the moment. We start breeding our younger does next month [emoji3]
 
#50 ·
So, in keeping with the exciting kidding season we have had, a crazy thing happened this morning. The human kids were in the barn early milking does and feeding bottle babies (I was still lounging in bed) when one of my boys came running in to tell me that Petunia was having another baby. I'm thinking ???????? And [emoji50][emoji54][emoji15][emoji90] Petunia kidded 9 days ago, a single doeling, admittedly, at the time I did wonder if there may have been another kid in there but after the placenta dropped, she was eating heartily and so was new baby and all seemed well I decided that I was mistaken and went to bed. I watched her carefully for 48 hours, because I just had 'a feeling' but she seemed so content and happy that after that all thoughts of a retained kid went out of my mind. Fast forward to this morning. I jump out of bed, put on boots and a jacket and head down to the barn in my jammies, all the time thinking, these human kids are crazy, there's no way she's delivering a retained baby after 9 whole days, no way. But in the back of my mind I'm remembering that feeling I had after she had Polly and I'm thinking [emoji90][emoji90][emoji90][emoji90][emoji90]. Sorry for the profane emojis, but I think you all probably get my mindset. Well sure enough I get down there and hop in her pen, I'm afraid to look but nevertheless I do, and I see a mouth and nose and little tongue. "Is it a baby Mom" Yes, that's definitely a baby, "Is it alive Mom" Eh, no. All I'm thinking is , please let this baby come out in one piece, please let Petunia be ok. So , I call the vet and explain the situation. She asks if there's a bad smell, well there wasn't, it just smelled like a normal birth. She said that after 9 days with a retained kid Petunia should be very, very I'll, but she's standing there eating and drinking. She says that the baby should be decomposed, but it's not. Very long story shortened a bit, Petunia delivered a stillborn doeling after a couple of hours, the contractions were very irregular and sparse and I only had to help deliver the hips and hind legs, the babies body was twisted sideways and it took a bit of work to deliver the hind end. Within 20 minutes mom was eating and drinking normally again and wanting to go outside. Vet told me to give her a shot of Penicillin, as it was all I had on hand, as a precaution, and watch for infection. As of this evening, Petunia and Polly are doing really well. I'm hoping that this very lucky goat continues to be lucky and all ends well for her.
 
#51 ·
Wow that's amazing! Glad she delivered it okay and hope she will continue to be well. Did she drop another placenta too?
 
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