Kid Watch Feb/March: Jenny day 138

[TheMixedBag]

No worries about the udder! It's doubled in size, and if I'm not wrong, she'll finish filling it out tonight when she kids. She could kid tomorrow, too, but ligs are gone (except for a teensy thread on the right side), and she looks so unpregnant right now it's not even funny.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Looking forward to udder pics!

 

[Roll farms]

 

[TheMixedBag]

I was right on the money! She kidded 6:30 on the dot. Had to pull the first kid, he was a MONSTER. Already had horns, too. Jenny tore a little bit and prolapsed, so I started her on penicillin.
Both kids are doing fine, they're weak in the back legs, though, so I need to go wrap them (the joint will pop forward).

About 5:15 pm. At this point, she is contracting, she's just not saying anything, or doing anything but stretching and arching her back here and there. She was very talkative, but she always is when I'm around, so nothing unusual.

First kid (named Peanut). This is the little turd who caused all the problems. I had to go in and grab hold of his legs before he'd even started poking out. I had seen a speck of white, and that had been it. Once I got his front legs out, I think I pulled for 2 minutes straight (hard, too. I was pretty much bracing against the cattle panel) before he finally came all the way out.

Second kid came out with almost no pulling (named Butters).

Peanut. Told you he was big. He's standing flush up against Jenny here.

BLUE EYES! They'll fade out to yellow when they get older, but still. They're blue!

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Let's see her udder!! And congrats!

 

[Roll farms]

Congrats!

 

[TheMixedBag]

I need better pictures of it first! I haven't even cleaned her off...

But, I did get one photo

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

It's beautiful! Messy, of course, but we'll cut her some slack since she just gave BIRTH! Very, very nice.

 

[TheMixedBag]

Got better udder photos yesterday. Cleaned her up a little, but she's gonna need a full bath. The yellow is iodine I dumped on her.

She's also feeling a lot better, and while she looks SOO skinny, she feels like she's fatter, so aside from what I'm feeding, what else (cheap-like, not more than $15-20 per bag) can I feed her to help her bump her weight up? I increased feed to 2-3 scoops of alfalfa pellets and a scoop and a half of beet pulp, and she eats about half in the morning, and half later in the afternoon.

Kids got bandaged yesterday, and it's working wonders. They'll get BoSe tomorrow, and the bandages can probably come off Friday.

Sorry that one's blurry. She wouldn't stand still.

Don't like this shot at all, but then again that's with big twins nursing too, so we'll see what happens in two weeks.

Butters' leg. His only problem is that leg keeps rotating inward. Soon as I finished wrapping his leg, he started running like a madman. He's still not too sure how to handle it, every once in a while, he'll try to twist and land on his butt.

Peanut's. Both hocks kept popping forward, causing him to fall every time he got bumped, or someone blew in his general direction. They've stopped popping forward since I wrapped them, and he's doing better with them than Butters is.