And it ends with a bang...Tia had quads!

[Roll farms]

Tia is the biggest boer doe I've ever seen...as her pregnancy progressed she got bigger....and bigger....and bigger....
I couldn't get my arms but about 2/3 of the way around her belly, she was HUGE.
I was expecting her to have late-term problems, suspecting 3 or 4 big kids.

She started showing signs of ketosis 2 days ago (stopped eating hay, not making / chewing cud, sweet breath, lethargic, etc.). Started giving prop. glycol, B shots, probios, etc.
Yesterday she started having a fever and sounding rattley in the chest. I figured it was pnuemonia from stress / not moving around much. Started Pen G for that.

Since her due date was Monday, the vet and I decided the best thing was to induce labor / get the kids out to lighten her load...and so she'd have room to eat some hay and get her rumen going again.

I gave her the shot of Lut at noon yesterday, it's supposed to take 24-36 hours to produce labor.
At 2:30 am this morning she started...

By 6:00 am I had all 4 kids out but it took a lot of manipulating, since they were just a big jumbled tangle inside her.

2 bucks, 2 does, I'm thinking of keeping the black headed boy for a jr. herdsire. 27# total of baby...*whew*

 

[chandasue]

Wow! That's awesome! How is Tia doing now?

 

[ksalvagno]

Wow, you sure ended your kidding season with some excitement! I'm glad everything turned out ok and I hope Tia is doing alright now.

 

[Roll farms]

How is Tia doing now?

She's weak and dehydrated...but up and eating / drinking.

I had intended to let her raise the 2 boys but, not enough colostrum to even fill a tablespoon, it was THICK. I've been drenching her w/ gatoraide and she's doing better.

There goes my colostrum surplus, lol...those 4 chunkers just about wiped me out.

 

[helmstead]

 

[lorihadams]

WOW....I can't believe all that came out of ONE goat! They are beautiful! Glad to hear mama is recovering well.....poor thing....

 

[Roll farms]

As of tonight, except for a bit of rattly breathing, she's doing much better. Ate like normal, drank tons, and gave me some colostrum *finally*....

The kids are doing fine too.

I'm tellin' you guys, that was the biggest belly I've ever seen, like Octomom, lol.

 

[Horsefly]

Glad to hear mom is doing good. They kids are really cute and wow four of them.

 

[PattySh]

WOW that's an awesome "litter". Way cute. Congrats!

 

[cmjust0]

Glad to hear the doe's eating again. With no worries over building big babies, I guess you can feed the fire out of her now.

Nice work!