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jodief100
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Antelope and Big Red kidded. It was a crazy night.
I came home from work and discovered I had forgotten my house keys at work. So I go to the barn in my work clothes and shoes to fill buckets and feed hay. I get to the door and I hear baby "meh meh". So I go around the corner and I see two white babies and a momma I can't quite make out. It was dark. I figure out it was Big Red. So I watch for a minute, they are both up, walking and nursing. I call hubby and tell him to hurry home, but he is still an hour away.
I go into the barn and go through to the stalls, planning on walking into the alleyway where Big Red is. I get partially there and see a white baby under the head gate. I say "how did you get here and where is your momma?" I look down the alleyway and see Big Red still by the gate with a baby. So I walk over to her- and she she still has two. At this point I realize another goat has kidded, I don't know who and I have no flashlight and am in a skirt and dress shoes.
I call my neighbor and ask for help. He comes over with two flashlights. We figure out the third baby is Antelope's, search the field to make sure we have them all, check the plumbing, make sure they are all nursing, dry and doing well. 2 boys and one girl
My neighbor's cousin showed up 10 minutes after he did. She had to see the baby goats.
They are good, so I round up Big Red into the barn. When she gets in her babies get mixed in with Antelope's and now Antelope can't find her baby. Big Red keeps chasing her away but lets Antelope's baby sniff and poke around her. I didn't see him nurse but I think she would have let him. I was worried we had a baby stealer, poor Antelope was running around trying to find her baby so we decided to put her in the stall. Well, it turned out to be chase her around three times with my neighbor, his cousin and I all trying to herd her in the right direction. We got her in and decided to leave Big Red out. The weather is nice and she was taking good care of them.
Everyone is doing great, there are pics on the Little Green Pastures kidding thread.
I came home from work and discovered I had forgotten my house keys at work. So I go to the barn in my work clothes and shoes to fill buckets and feed hay. I get to the door and I hear baby "meh meh". So I go around the corner and I see two white babies and a momma I can't quite make out. It was dark. I figure out it was Big Red. So I watch for a minute, they are both up, walking and nursing. I call hubby and tell him to hurry home, but he is still an hour away.
I go into the barn and go through to the stalls, planning on walking into the alleyway where Big Red is. I get partially there and see a white baby under the head gate. I say "how did you get here and where is your momma?" I look down the alleyway and see Big Red still by the gate with a baby. So I walk over to her- and she she still has two. At this point I realize another goat has kidded, I don't know who and I have no flashlight and am in a skirt and dress shoes.
I call my neighbor and ask for help. He comes over with two flashlights. We figure out the third baby is Antelope's, search the field to make sure we have them all, check the plumbing, make sure they are all nursing, dry and doing well. 2 boys and one girl
My neighbor's cousin showed up 10 minutes after he did. She had to see the baby goats.
They are good, so I round up Big Red into the barn. When she gets in her babies get mixed in with Antelope's and now Antelope can't find her baby. Big Red keeps chasing her away but lets Antelope's baby sniff and poke around her. I didn't see him nurse but I think she would have let him. I was worried we had a baby stealer, poor Antelope was running around trying to find her baby so we decided to put her in the stall. Well, it turned out to be chase her around three times with my neighbor, his cousin and I all trying to herd her in the right direction. We got her in and decided to leave Big Red out. The weather is nice and she was taking good care of them.
Everyone is doing great, there are pics on the Little Green Pastures kidding thread.
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