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Congrats. Wow 2 doelings out of three kids!!! Nice.

Soon you will be milking goats! :celebrate

So, are cattle the option for all the pasture? Of course, you DO have goats to help. Then, there's the fencing.........Ain't farming fun????
 

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I'm curious - do kids give any indication that they are getting milk if you see them try to nurse. With lambs their tail won't move till they start getting milk then it looks like a cute little propeller. :)
 

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congratulations grandpa. I can't believe that big tub of a goat only had one kid. as big as her belly was when she left here I was sure she'd have twins. I agree with @OneFineAcre, she has probably eaten. best way to see if baby girl has nursed is to put your hand under her and feel her belly. if it feels flat she hasn't eaten if its rounded then she has eaten. so whats her name?
 

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Congratulations on your cute little doeling! She looks a lot like my twins! Gee . . . I wonder how that can be ??? :lol:

@goatgurl asked what her name is?
Cap'n Crunch ;)
:lol: :yuckyuck :lol:

That is just too funny!!!

Angelica was up, almost immediately, latching on to Ruby. But, my little Linden was so weak he could hardly stand up, even with help. I tried to help him lath on, and he didn't even try. So, I milked out some of Ruby's colostrum and fed it to him in a bottle. It took a while, for him to figure it out, but once he did, he got at least an ounce. I held him for a while & when I put him down, he seemed to have more strength. Shortly after that I was able to help him to his feet under mom & he latched on and got a nice drink. :clap From then on, he had more strength and was able to get up to nurse on his own. :celebrate Of course now, you would never know he was too weak to nurse, when he was born. He's a strapping little boy, jumping and bouncing all over the,place. :weee
 

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That's as good a name as any other. So Cap'n Crunch it will be, C-Crunch for short I guess or maybe CC.

I'm completely confuzzeled with this little girl... :idunno She tries to nurse everywhere but on the teat when I'm out there trying to get her to latch on. Bumping mom everywhere but her udder. Then when I'm looking from the window I see her where she's supposed to be and tail wagging. She was with mom when I went to bed last night in the shelter. When I checked at 6 this morning, she was laying in the shelter all alone and mom was crashed out by the water trough. All the other goats slept out as well. When I went down to check, the baby was crying and when I picked her up she "felt" cold on her extremities, but then she was laying on the ground. I held her for a while to warm her a bit.

Mom followed me into the shelter so once again I held mom and tried to get the baby latched on. Dot's udder was full to the brim... when I stripped some out to make sure they weren't plugged, the teats just went to streaming... I held the baby's head up to the stream and teat & she drank but wouldn't latch on. :rant:rantDot has very fat teats while Bang has very thin ones. Dot is licking the baby and her butt, which should stimulate eating. I've watched her arch her back to present her teats to C-Crunch, but again, no clear indication she's latching on. I do see tail wags, and the head appears to be in the right place. But if she's drinking, then why was Dot's udder filled to leaking?

Her mouth wasn't cold this morning, but wasn't warm either. Right now she's out in the main area in the sun and mom is with her. I know she got some colostrum yesterday when I was "force feeding" her from mom's teat, but nowhere near 10% of her body weight while I was trying. I'm wondering now if these issues are because I held the kid and wiped her all down while mom was passing the placenta... Maybe I held her too long? I mean mom recognizes her and butts the others away if they get too close, and licks her and all, so :hu

The goats and eventual sheep will be in the back pasture with cross fencing and rotation. The steers will be in the front pasture. I'll put the sheep up with the cows some to eat what the cows won't. Debating on cows in the back pastures.
 

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Hopefully little CC will get it all figured out and things will work out for ya there. No need for extra Excitement with all the plans ya got in the works.
 
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