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WOW! Lots of bucks! How many different sires have you used?
The hardest part is the boys are the best!
Congrats on the kids!
The hardest part is the boys are the best!
Congrats on the kids!
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Hazel's kids have had three different sires, but my herd has had five in total over the years so far. When Scully kids in the next few days, it will make six sires. I own three bucks, rented two early on and had Hazel come to us already bred by another.
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I do like the boys!
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Today, Scully was on day 148 and her ligaments were gone. I spent most of the day listening or out at the shed. I decided to have dinner and got back to one doeling who had died. She was out of her sac and being cleaned, but it may have been that she was too weak overall- she weighed one pound, two ounces. About fifteen minutes later, Scully struggles with her second and finally pushes out a four pound, fourteen ounce doeling, black with a white poll and a couple of moonspots. How is it that twins can be so different in size?
BlessedWithGoats
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Congrats on the babies! Sorry about the little doeling that didn't make it. 
Goat Whisperer
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Sorry about the lost kid 
I don't think she would have made it, with being that small. We've had small kids, but not that small. It's still heartbreaking though
We had something like this happen with Boots and her kids. We had to put the small kid down, it wasn't going to live as it had a cleft palate. We've never had that happen before but it was clear the the twin got everything. We call him "Ouchy ouchy" LOL
The kids shared the same placenta. I forgot the term (@Southern by choice knows I think) where the one twin "hogs" all the nutrition while the other gets very little. We like it when our does have 2 placentas, the kids are larger and are stronger at birth.
Your remaining doe is beautiful!
I don't think she would have made it, with being that small. We've had small kids, but not that small. It's still heartbreaking though
We had something like this happen with Boots and her kids. We had to put the small kid down, it wasn't going to live as it had a cleft palate. We've never had that happen before but it was clear the the twin got everything. We call him "Ouchy ouchy" LOL
The kids shared the same placenta. I forgot the term (@Southern by choice knows I think) where the one twin "hogs" all the nutrition while the other gets very little. We like it when our does have 2 placentas, the kids are larger and are stronger at birth.
Your remaining doe is beautiful!
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@Goat Whisperer - Do you know a resource that explains placental attachments with multiples? And amniotic sacs and such? I am mystified by all the bubbles and what not, some have babies, some are fluid filled, etc, etc. Then I wonder if the doe delivers one afterbirth or more?
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Yubi sired three bucklings and three doelings. Here are some photos of the bucklings. What do you think? First, all three- Samson, Goliath, and Nene.
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Here is Nene today at three weeks and two days old, the oldest out of 4f Mabel's triplets. May be polled.
At one week-
At one week-
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