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Sorry Jodie
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Bridgemoof
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So sorry Jodie, take a break and relax for a while if you can. 
autumnprairie
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X2Bridgemoof said:So sorry Jodie, take a break and relax for a while if you can.
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jodief100
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A big reminder this week about how farming is a 24-7 job. No sick days, no vacation, too many lives depend on you.
I was going to unwind, do just the minimum and try to relax for awhile. The goats had other plans.
Wednesday night I was doing the evening "hiney check", looking for signs of impending kidding. The girls have been dragging this out for weeks but something about Yogurt's udder made me think this is the real deal. So I shut the gate to keep them in. I don't like to do this and don't do it often. For the most part my girls kid on thier own with no issues.
Thursday morning I am doing morning barn chores before work. I head the "meh meh" that means new babies as I appoach. I go in, Doeling has a baby by the feeder, still wet and struggling. I look around and there is another outside the gate in the semi frozen, wet mud muck! She is moving but not well. I scoop them both up and chase the other does out of the pen area so I can get them under the lamp. I see Yogurt has blood on her udder. Quick check and I see another baby in the pen area, where Yogurt just was. This one is big and dry. So I put the babies under the lamp, turn it on and go to get Doeling, she wouldn't follow me. I had to chase her a bit but I got her and put her in the pen with her babies. She and Yogurt started head butting so I felt I had no choice but to put Yogurt in the second pen. This one has been a sick pen and has no light but what do you do?
I put Yogurt in with her baby, went to check on Doeling- and there was ANOTHER BABY! So either Doeling had three or the cold, muddy one was Yogurt's. I had assumed Doleing since she was closer and it was about the same size as hers.
I worked on the weak baby for awhile and decided I had to bring her in the house. I blow dried her, put her in a box with a pet heating pad and a space heater, fed her some warm magic and waited. Two hours later I am VERY late for work, she is dry and sitting up but her temp is still low.
Doeling's second baby is struggling. She can't get standing. I give her Bo-Se, dry her off and put her on the teat. I put her under the light, she is still trying really hard so I let her be.
I decide I can't do anything else so I left for work.
I have no idea what to expect when I get home.
My neighbor got home before I did and came over to check on them.
T: "there is a baby in the main area of the barn"
me: "who's is it? Yogurt should have one and Doeling two"
T: "Yogurt has one and Doelign has two"
me: "another one kidded?!?!"
T: "there is a tan doe nursing it now"
me: "OK, that one seems fine, what about Doeling's two?"
T: "They are both dry and warm with full bellies, they seem fine"
He goes in the house to check on cold baby..........
T: " she is screaming her head off and running all over the bathroom"
me: "There is colostrum in the fride or do you think she can go back to her momma?"
T: "I'll take her to Yogurt and see"......... what seems like a really long wait.........
T: "Yogurt is nuzzling her and she is nursing"
Life is a roller coaster some weeks.......
5 active babies with full bellies this morning........
I was going to unwind, do just the minimum and try to relax for awhile. The goats had other plans.
Wednesday night I was doing the evening "hiney check", looking for signs of impending kidding. The girls have been dragging this out for weeks but something about Yogurt's udder made me think this is the real deal. So I shut the gate to keep them in. I don't like to do this and don't do it often. For the most part my girls kid on thier own with no issues.
Thursday morning I am doing morning barn chores before work. I head the "meh meh" that means new babies as I appoach. I go in, Doeling has a baby by the feeder, still wet and struggling. I look around and there is another outside the gate in the semi frozen, wet mud muck! She is moving but not well. I scoop them both up and chase the other does out of the pen area so I can get them under the lamp. I see Yogurt has blood on her udder. Quick check and I see another baby in the pen area, where Yogurt just was. This one is big and dry. So I put the babies under the lamp, turn it on and go to get Doeling, she wouldn't follow me. I had to chase her a bit but I got her and put her in the pen with her babies. She and Yogurt started head butting so I felt I had no choice but to put Yogurt in the second pen. This one has been a sick pen and has no light but what do you do?
I put Yogurt in with her baby, went to check on Doeling- and there was ANOTHER BABY! So either Doeling had three or the cold, muddy one was Yogurt's. I had assumed Doleing since she was closer and it was about the same size as hers.
I worked on the weak baby for awhile and decided I had to bring her in the house. I blow dried her, put her in a box with a pet heating pad and a space heater, fed her some warm magic and waited. Two hours later I am VERY late for work, she is dry and sitting up but her temp is still low.
Doeling's second baby is struggling. She can't get standing. I give her Bo-Se, dry her off and put her on the teat. I put her under the light, she is still trying really hard so I let her be.
I decide I can't do anything else so I left for work.
I have no idea what to expect when I get home.
My neighbor got home before I did and came over to check on them.
T: "there is a baby in the main area of the barn"
me: "who's is it? Yogurt should have one and Doeling two"
T: "Yogurt has one and Doelign has two"
me: "another one kidded?!?!"
T: "there is a tan doe nursing it now"
me: "OK, that one seems fine, what about Doeling's two?"
T: "They are both dry and warm with full bellies, they seem fine"
He goes in the house to check on cold baby..........
T: " she is screaming her head off and running all over the bathroom"
me: "There is colostrum in the fride or do you think she can go back to her momma?"
T: "I'll take her to Yogurt and see"......... what seems like a really long wait.........
T: "Yogurt is nuzzling her and she is nursing"
Life is a roller coaster some weeks.......
5 active babies with full bellies this morning........
bonbean01
Herd Master
Whew...so much so quickly, and you having to go to work amidst it all
Seems they will be fine ... careful now when you leave work and go home that you don't speed like a crazy and get in an accident! You'll be needing a rest after all babies and mamas are doing well...
Seems they will be fine ... careful now when you leave work and go home that you don't speed like a crazy and get in an accident! You'll be needing a rest after all babies and mamas are doing well...
Southern by choice
Herd Master
I'm exhausted from reading it... glad mommas and babies are well. Thank G-d for good neighbors too!
Hang in there
Hang in there
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Me too Southern 
. So glad for the happy ending!
. So glad for the happy ending!Shelly May
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Glad all worked out
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Wow!!!! Congrats on all the babies!!!! 
So glad they are all healthy!
So glad they are all healthy!
