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Boers4ever’s Kidding Thread 2023

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WHOO HOO!!!! IT IS TIME!!! My first doe is due to kid in 4 days!! I absolutely can’t wait! This is the first year that all my kids will be half myotonic instead of Boer. My hope my new buck Stumble will pull through for me.
First off, Poppy is the first one due. However, she is mostly ND and she has a tendency to go a little earlier then normal. Last year she had triplets. She was the first doe I ever had and she is my precious baby. I get worried about her sometimes when she is about to kid, but she has always done great and is a great mama.
*actually I just separated her into a kidding stall because she wouldn’t eat this morning. She is wondering around with glazed eyes kinda screaming and looking for her unborn kids. I hope for kids pretty quick!!! Whoop!
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Otherwise I have 3 other does.
Annabelle is due in a week. She is a white Boer. This will be her second kidding. Dottie is also a Boer and has an unknown due date, and same for Storm, my only Spanish doe.
I will post pics of them later after I deal with Poppy. Wish her luck, and lots of doelings for everyone!!
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Hey I am embarrassed to say that I have never tied and dipped umbilical cords with iodine. Can someone quickly refresh my memory on how to do it? Thanks.
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Oh yeah I like spraying better! The iodine I have is the really strong stuff I got from the vet. They gave it to me in a spray bottle so that’s way easier. Is it better to tie them?
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Little girl!!!!! Whoop whoop!!!
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Jackpot y’all!! I am so happy!!! Triplet doelings!!!!!!
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Shoot! I was wrong!! One boy two girls!
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Ok so question. She has lost her placenta and got her babies dry and fed. But she is still scratching at the ground and acting a little uncomfortable. Is that worrisome?
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She lost it about an hour ago. But she still has some goo and stuff hanging. But it just seems like she’s empty now. I’m might be wrong though. She started chewing on the plastic water trough.
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Some of my does do a lot of pawing for a few hours after kidding. I wouldn't be worried about it
Ok thanks that a relief that others do it to. I just checked on her briefly and she looks ok.
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Such pretty babies! Does that brown kid have blue eyes? And I see it was daylight when she had them. So lucky!
Yes! All three have blue eyes like their dad. I was hoping for that. I love love blue eyes. It’s one of the reasons I got Stumble in the first place.
Yeah! In the daylight! Thank goodness! Last year I was helping her with a breach at midnight in a dark cold barn. That was miserable! Thankfully no breaches this year from her.
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I spent a few minutes with them this morning and they all did well through the cold 20*F night. Poppy still has some bloody stuff but she wasn’t pawing and scratching anymore and she was excited for her breakfast. Also I forgot to mention that I had to dry the little blackie up with a towel and warm her. She got too cold to nurse. But thank goodness that she is nursing on her own today.
I weighed them and they weigh 4.6, 4.0, and 3.8 pounds. Poppy’s trips last year weighed a pound more each but they had a Boer daddy. So I am figuring that this is a sign that the kids this year will be a little smaller then I’m used to. With straight ears too!
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Poppy has such a huge udder!! There’s no way that the kids can drink it all right now and she is acting quite uncomfortable and gorged. I wonder if I should milk her a little bit and save some in case anything happens with the next 2 weeks with the other girls kidding. Would that be a good idea?
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Alrighty. Thanks for the input guys! I did milk Poppy and got a quart and a half just from one side. The kids are nursing the full side now.
Also, my next doe to kid I think is Annabelle. She is pureblood Boer. Her due date isn’t until next Tuesday (5 days from now) but I think she will go before then. She is Sooooo loose. I think the kids will literally fall out lol. She has been having some discharge for about 2 weeks and I noticed today that she pees a little while she is laying down. Between the two, her behind has been stained brown.
Today she is acting extra uncomfortable and really groaning when she moves. Give me a bit and I’ll grab some pics.
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Jeez I am a bit off on my due date guesses! Storm was acting a bit off this morning so I stuck her in the barn since it was going to rain. Well she just had twins! A buckling and doeling! The doeling is the lighter colored one and both have blue eyes! Sooo pretty!
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And I actually was going to take the stick off her head, but she had them so fast I didn’t have time to come back and take it off!
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All dried off and cute now! The girl looks like she is dirty but she is actually just a really neat color. Kind of brown and tan. I am sooo excited to watch all these kids grow! I wonder if they’ll faint?… lol.
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We got more kids incoming!! From Dottie my Boer. She is the worst one. She always takes soooo long in labor and is very fidgety, getting up and down all the time instead of just getting down to business. There is no telling how long it will be. But she is in labor at the moment.
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Twin bucklings! My dad is already threatening to eat them lol! They are very eager to nurse. So far I have had nothing but good kidding from my buck Stumble! Kids are perfect size!
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