Goat Whisperer's & SBC's kidding thread: kidding storm

OneFineAcre · Nov 13, 2016

Goat Whisperer said:
They haven't bred her yet. They will probably use Lil Joe when they are ready.
She is probably ok to breed now, but they are in the process of moving so it will be a bit.

She has a high probability of having big litters like Leah. Leah was a triplet, Leah's dam was a quad and had big litters often.

I personally would be fine with twins. Big litters are scary, those kids get tangled easily. I did warn them about the possibility of complications and told them that they need to be prepared to assist and/or have a vet out.

I would take twins every time if I could

TAH · Nov 13, 2016

OneFineAcre said:
I would take twins every time if I could

x2

babsbag · Nov 13, 2016

Triplets have been ok with my Alpines; have never had more than three.
I have Minis for the first time this year so we'll see if we get any 'litters' .

Goat Whisperer · Nov 16, 2016

Trouble/Gordy bred today (11/16/2016)

Trouble seems to cycle ~5 days after she has been bred. I guessing she takes on the 2nd breeding. I have a feeling she re-cycled the weekend when I was at the fair so that is probably why she didn't settle. She *should* take this time :fl

Fullhousefarm · Nov 19, 2016

babsbag said:
Triplets have been ok with my Alpines; have never had more than three.
I have Minis for the first time this year so we'll see if we get any 'litters' .

We've never had problems with triplets- but I agree twins are "perfect." Well, maybe unless it's multiple sets of buck twins like our first year kidding when we had 13 boys- one set of triplets and the rest twins and ONE single girl. LOL.

Goat Whisperer · Nov 19, 2016

Fullhousefarm said:
Well, maybe unless it's multiple sets of buck twins like our first year kidding when we had 13 boys- one set of triplets and the rest twins and ONE single girl. LOL.

This would be me-
:he