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Jodief100--- random stuff and BIG news
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jodief100
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Mocha is doing as well as can be expected. She cried for a few days but now she has been hanging out with her best bud Antelope. Antelope is due this week sometime.
Ebony and Ivory weighed 7 and 8 lbs, they are doing great and are little piggies. RR 166 kids were a little smaller at 5 1/2 and 4 1/2 lbs but she is a smaller doe. They are calmer but doing well and keeping warm under the lights.
My schedule shows that I had 4 more that I observed the breeding day for that can go this week. It is not getting into double digits tomorrow and won't be above freezing again until Friday.
Ebony and Ivory weighed 7 and 8 lbs, they are doing great and are little piggies. RR 166 kids were a little smaller at 5 1/2 and 4 1/2 lbs but she is a smaller doe. They are calmer but doing well and keeping warm under the lights.
My schedule shows that I had 4 more that I observed the breeding day for that can go this week. It is not getting into double digits tomorrow and won't be above freezing again until Friday.
bonbean01
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Your babies are adorable!!!!! Congrats 
So very sorry for your losses!!!!!
So very sorry for your losses!!!!!
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jodief100
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Antelope kidded, twin girls. They are drying under the light right now.
14 degree and dropping, into the negatives again night.
14 degree and dropping, into the negatives again night.
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This weather has been so hard on goats and sheep that have multiples. They don't have enough time to get the first finished before they have to start working on the second. I am getting very worried for myself. our first aren't due to kid or lamb until 2/14/14 and I am hoping for a warm snap, you know 30's. at least have a few things going for me. besides one nanny this is all of their ff, so I hate to say this but I am hoping for singles! Good luck this week!!
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jodief100
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Broken Horn kidded twin does. They are up and nursing. I am running out of pens. I have Antelope and Broken Horn in one and the other is a heating pen for the babies.
Supposed to get down to -8 tonight. It is going to be a long 48 hours.
Antelopes babies are a soft brown with some stripes. Broken Horn has oen white and one whote with tan spots. Y'all are going to have to wait for pictures. I am exhausted.
Supposed to get down to -8 tonight. It is going to be a long 48 hours.
Antelopes babies are a soft brown with some stripes. Broken Horn has oen white and one whote with tan spots. Y'all are going to have to wait for pictures. I am exhausted.
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Yeah for all the babies!
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jodief100
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7 does have kidded in the last 48 hours. In temperatures ranging from -8 to 12 degrees F. I spent most of the day Tuesday in the barn blow drying babies. It never got above 6 degrees that day. I am exhausted, worn out and sore. I heck on them all night, every 2-3 hours. I haven't slept more than 3 hours at a time in 4 days.
I have completely lost track of who kidded what and which kids belong to which doe. I was too concerned with keeping them alive. We have had some losses, it is so cold they snuggle up close and pile on top of one another. I have four 500 watt lamps up but they still pile up. 4 have smothered getting caught at the bottom of the pile or getting penned trying to snuggle with their mommies instead of the baby pen. There are 3 in my bathroom, one doing OK, the other two I don't think will make it. I am too numb to even cry anymore.
This has been a miserable, heart wrenching experience. We do not normally have this cold of weather. This is abnormal. The old-timers around here says the last time it was even close this bad was the winter of 77-78. I usually have more problems kidding in March when it is wet. There is no ideal time to kid.
Not absolutely certain but I think we have 31 babies right now.
I have completely lost track of who kidded what and which kids belong to which doe. I was too concerned with keeping them alive. We have had some losses, it is so cold they snuggle up close and pile on top of one another. I have four 500 watt lamps up but they still pile up. 4 have smothered getting caught at the bottom of the pile or getting penned trying to snuggle with their mommies instead of the baby pen. There are 3 in my bathroom, one doing OK, the other two I don't think will make it. I am too numb to even cry anymore.
This has been a miserable, heart wrenching experience. We do not normally have this cold of weather. This is abnormal. The old-timers around here says the last time it was even close this bad was the winter of 77-78. I usually have more problems kidding in March when it is wet. There is no ideal time to kid.
Not absolutely certain but I think we have 31 babies right now.
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Oh Jodie, I am so sorry! 
I have been thinking of you, knowing you are in this weather. If we were closer I would be there in a heartbeat. I hope this weather breaks soon, and you can get some rest. 
I have been thinking of you, knowing you are in this weather. If we were closer I would be there in a heartbeat. I hope this weather breaks soon, and you can get some rest. 
