D and L Meadows 2020 kidding and lambing thread

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Love these lil cuties!

 

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The other four does are still hanging in there! They'll probably go in the night...they're favorite time!!
Looks like one quad, triplet, triplet, maybe twin, and triplet, maybe quads. But they sure can fool you. Lol

 

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Double just had triplets! Two bucklings and a doeling, that we are keeping. She’s the one that looks like Double.

They make 53 kids for the year and 44 kids on the farm.

 

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More new arrivals. We're done for a week! Now we can try to recuperate...its been crazy with only 6-7 hr nights, when a doe wasn’t in labor, which seemed like almost every night. 50 bottle kids....that’s as many kids as we had in the whole year in 2018! All under 5 weeks except two. Call us crazy...we probably are by now. Lol!



This big guy, named Thunderbird, was a single (what’s up with these HUGE single bucklings?!) He was 5.5# and his poor mom...it was tough coming.

These three cuties were also a very good size, weighing in at 4.5, 4.7 and 4.8. We are keeping the doeling (middle kid) the other two are buckings.

And these are the youngest, born last night at 11 or something. I can’t remember...lol...Two beautiful doelings One is polled and blue eyed, the other is moonspotted.

 

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O My Stars kidded late last night! She had triplets...all red like her and so adorable. The two doelings are keepers.

 

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Double Dipp'N with her daughter, Double Dots.

 

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More kids coming soon...Nikki due 6/7, Gratitude (aka
Pat Blue) and Contentment (aka Pat Brown) due 6/13. Spice due 6/17
The Pats get their names from their mom, Patience = "Pat" and blue and brown for their eye colors.

For now, just some pictures of the kids for ya'll to enjoy.



Left to Right: Doublue Dipp'N, her daughter, Double Dots, Sugar's kids Dipp'N Delight & Dipp'N theMeadows, and Dorothy's doeling, Joyful Adoration in the back.

One of the youngest mini Nubians, Commander. His sire's name is Lieutenant. He’s our new buck from MT. Loving his kids.

Dipp'N Sugar with her doeling, Dipp'N Delight.

 

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Trying to get nice pictures of our juniors.

Introducing two of our Ralph kids...


D and L Meadows RW Steluta

D and L Meadows Sunshine's Joy

We are very excited about our homebred freshman buck, Ralph. He is out of D and L Meadows VT Sunshine 5*M 3*D AR, AGS 2017-18 Top 10 1400# Milker, 2017-19 ADGA Elite Doe (99% PE) His sire is Sinai Thunder AD Star of David *B *S. So far we have two of his daughters in milk. Hopefully next year he will get his plus buck status.

D and L Meadows DS Ralph *B *S. Pictured as a yearling.

 

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Nikki had triplets!! Two buckings and a doeling. Sire is Sinai Thunder AD Star of David *B *S. The one bucking is super tiny, but doing well. It’s quite an adjustment for them in this hot weather, poor things. That’s one thing I don’t like about summer kids..takes them a few days to get use to the heat. Thankfully it’s suppose to be cooler today.
So far this year, 70 kids... We're back up to 50 on the farm now, having sold some before she kidded. Total is 137 goats.

 

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Nikki had triplets!! Two buckings and a doeling. Sire is Sinai Thunder AD Star of David *B *S. The one bucking is super tiny, but doing well. It’s quite an adjustment for them in this hot weather, poor things. That’s one thing I don’t like about summer kids..takes them a few days to get use to the heat. Thankfully it’s suppose to be cooler today.
So far this year, 70 kids... We're back up to 50 on the farm now, having sold some before she kidded. Total is 137 goats.

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Oh my goodness that's too adorable. Congrats.