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We lost one of our little triplets over night. Pillow Scham (ND doe) and her triplets were doing so well yesterday I worried that they needed more room. The kids were so bouncy and Pillow was so ready to leave the barn with the rest of the herd yesterday that I decided it was time to take the four of them out of the kidding pen and move them to a more open (but still indoors pen) adjoining the rest of the herd. Evidently, that was too much room and Pillow couldn't keep all three kids warm overnight. We had unexpected temps below 0 last night. We knew it was supposed to be very cold again but I was shocked when I saw the temps this morning. We woke up to NO power this morning and it was soooo cold. We found her first born (a colorful doeling) dead at feeding time. :blue: It's horrible. I'm sure she would still be here if I hadn't moved them from their cozy kidding pen. It's been a very sad day here. In 5 years, we've kidded about half our herd in Jan and Feb and only had one other loss before this to the cold. This last couple of weeks have been extreme for our area. I think I'll hold off for all spring kids in the future though. This is awful.
Kristen
We lost one of our little triplets over night. Pillow Scham (ND doe) and her triplets were doing so well yesterday I worried that they needed more room. The kids were so bouncy and Pillow was so ready to leave the barn with the rest of the herd yesterday that I decided it was time to take the four of them out of the kidding pen and move them to a more open (but still indoors pen) adjoining the rest of the herd. Evidently, that was too much room and Pillow couldn't keep all three kids warm overnight. We had unexpected temps below 0 last night. We knew it was supposed to be very cold again but I was shocked when I saw the temps this morning. We woke up to NO power this morning and it was soooo cold. We found her first born (a colorful doeling) dead at feeding time. :blue: It's horrible. I'm sure she would still be here if I hadn't moved them from their cozy kidding pen. It's been a very sad day here. In 5 years, we've kidded about half our herd in Jan and Feb and only had one other loss before this to the cold. This last couple of weeks have been extreme for our area. I think I'll hold off for all spring kids in the future though. This is awful.
Kristen