Less than a week to go! Kidding has begun! *baby pictures*

[ksalvagno]

Very cute! Sorry you got so many boys but at least all went well and are healthy!

 

[glenolam]

That little doeling is absolutely beautiful. Congratulations on the successful births - even if the end result was a little disappointing!

 

[KinderKorner]

So that first little doeling is Kodak's full sister, right? She's lighter than he is and oh so much prettier

Congrats on all the kids! Sorry bout the buckling overload! We now have 4 bucks, which in my mind is 2 too many. Thinking of downsizing and only keeping the 2 kinder bucks so I don't have to worry anymore bout suprise breedings. We have 2 does that bred themselves by jumping the fence

Priscilla still hasn't shown any signs of heat. Her tail was flagging just a tiny bit this week so I put her in with our little buck, just to be sure and she ran him around the breeding pen screaming her head off then turned on him and rammed him into the wall, taking his breath away. NOPE! She wanted NOTHING to do with it. Oh well. Just want to be sure she doesn't sneak out with one of our junk bucks. Then I'd be mad at her. LOL!

Yup that Kodaks full sister. He was a cutie when he was born, you say he is ugly now? I would love to see pictures of the gang!

I haven't really seen Ellie in heat either. Once I thought she was but I never comfirmed it. I sold the only unrelated buck to her, so now I have to wait until I buy a new one. lol. Isn't that how it goes.

I have 4 bucks now too after selling one a couple weeks ago. But I am picking up a pygmy buck to breed first generations tomorrow. And if I want to keep the Wilbur line going I have to keep one of the triplet bucks. So that brings a total of 6. And actually most of them will be related so If I want to get any farther with my breeding I would have to get some newer ones. I only have 13 does. Gosh. You can tell I have troble letting go of the bucks. My little jasper will probaly be going. So if any one wants an adorable and beautiful bucking he is your man!

That leaves me with:

Kodak, who is a really nice guy. Most unrelated.

Dandy, Lily and Kodak son. Prettiest buck I have ever seen. Really really nice. Even better than daddy.

Dumber. Stupid nubian that is shipping out of here soon.

Jasper, Lucie and Wilbur buck. He has awesome color, and is a cutie. But he is on the short side. Nice buck for someone wanting to breed shorter kinders. His momma has a great udder, but her teats are very small.

Pygmy, going to breed me some first generations in partnership with a friend.

Dandy and the Pygmy are staying for sure. Dumber is leaving. I will probably keep one of the triplet bucks. Then Kodak and Jasper are questionable. I really love them both. But I just can't keep that many. So if anyone is truely interesting in a great buck, Kodak is only be going to a special home. And Jasper would be great for someone needing smaller kinders.

Sara is raising all of her babies. She milked 7 pounds a day last year on her first freshing. So we figured she could handle it. They all look fine, and she is loving it, although the poor thing is always being nursed by one of them. lol

Now to find homes for our 2 Sara bucklings. Whoever takes Ursa will probably take one, and we already have several peole in line. That leaves one buckling to sell. Jack and Goatie buckling will probably be weathered and sold as companions, unless someone contacts me quickly saying they want Jack as a buck.

Then we got Goatie's little goat to go.

And whatever lily kids. I told her she better give me girls. If 50/50 odds are right she owes me triplet girls. I'd be happy with twins.

 

[helmstead]

Congrats on the new babies

 

[KinderKorner]

Someone was asking about feeding her babies....

She has so much milk in there even with 3 nursing it's too full to get a good suckle on, so we have to milk some out.

The cool thing about her udder is it is all milk. When you milk her out all that is left if skin and it just hangs limp like a dishtowel.

Lily's udder has lots of extra tissue, so she still looks full even when she is not. Sara what you see is what you get.

Brown Baby is so neat.

All of the babies are laying around a lot. I'm worried, but I think I'm just paranoid. I hope.

What a face!

Hey I just realized Mr Head spot has a spot under his throat too.

 

[helmstead]

A 1/4 cc of BoSe will perk them up...just adorable and what a fabulous udder on that doe!

 

[KinderKorner]

We live in a very low selelium area so we usually give all our kids Bo-Se shots anyway. The thick striped boy has weak legs probably from that cause, so we plan to give him a bo-se tomorrow. And the others we will give when we get home on monday. Unless we have time tomorrow.

We made them go outside today and they all seemed fine so I think I just forgot how much new babies slept. I was also worried about jack and meg's girl but they are bouncing all over the place now.

Lily still hasn't went yet and doesn't even look close. She is making me anxious. It's going to be bad enough leaving a bunch of babies, but leaving a pregnent doe with no help freaks me out. I pray she has them tonight. I got her on the barn camera and I swear I look at it every 5 minutes.

Every keep their fingers crossed that she has twin girls tonight.

 

[BetterHensandGardens]

 

[KinderKorner]

Well I have to go to bed now because I have to get up at 6:30 tomorrow and have a full day, at 10pm we leave for the ohio nationals, I will drive all night, sleep in the car for 2 hours go to the show all day, then sleep saturday night. So I'll be up for like 36 hours straight starting tomorrow.

Lily doesn't look very promising, but she just pawed and laid down and she keeps shuffling so she may be in early labor. I'll check her in a couple hours. Goodnight all!

 

[Greendecember]

4 1/2 weeks to go!

Udders are filling up. The girls are really miserable now. Especially goatie and sara. They are so big, they just groan when they lay down.

I'm so scared and excited. These are my first goats. One of them looks like she was breed before we got her and today her sisters utter looked like it was filling up. It was not that way yesterday and I have no bucks. I got them and their 5 month old kids in September. The one with the utters filling doesn't look breed but apparently neither did her triplet sister who had twins out of the blue!

I just know I'm gonna walk into the barn & the herd size will be bigger than when I went to bed!!!

My next goats will come with papers. LOL no more random farmer goats hehe