LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[neener92]

she is dark reddish brown. I still need to check her teats and all that good stuff to make sure she qualifies as breeding stock material.

Ok, I'll stop obsessing over Indie's doeling......maybe!

Am I getting annoying yet?

You can stop obsessing, she has incorrect teats. Frustrating, considering the buck and his mom are a clean 1x1 and Indie is a very very clean 2x2. Although on the bright side she will be sold as a commercial doe and cheaper to buy than if she was a correct teated doe. The buckling is clean teated, That would figure. All the other ones so far are clean teated. When I say clean teated it may be 1x1 or 2x2, but the 2x2 would have space between them.

What's her teat structure like? Will you be keeping her or selling her?

 

[20kidsonhill]

Ok, I'll stop obsessing over Indie's doeling......maybe!

Am I getting annoying yet?

You can stop obsessing, she has incorrect teats. Frustrating, considering the buck and his mom are a clean 1x1 and Indie is a very very clean 2x2. Although on the bright side she will be sold as a commercial doe and cheaper to buy than if she was a correct teated doe. The buckling is clean teated, That would figure. All the other ones so far are clean teated. When I say clean teated it may be 1x1 or 2x2, but the 2x2 would have space between them.

What's her teat structure like? Will you be keeping her or selling her?

Lance said he will evaluate her for you. It is a clean 2x2, with one main teat on each side and a small 2nd teat well spaced from the main teat, but one of the main teats has a small teat scur coming off of it near the base. I will look up information on it and share it with you.

No matter what she had, I was planning on putting up for sale, since we have two does in the herd from her.

 

[20kidsonhill]

going to bed, 10:30 pm. I need to do a barn check at 2 am. Pippi has a very shiny udder, and she had a little bit of shiny discharge, I will be surprised if she doesn't kid tonight. Oh and she is cranky.

Good Night.

 

[neener92]

That's kinda exciting!
I hope the rest of your does have smooth kiddings!

Night!

 

[20kidsonhill]

I need more sleep than I got last night, So glad to day is Friday.


No new babies.

Around 10 of the goats got into the other side of the barn yesterday evening, made a huge mess. It is where we have a work shop and store the feed. their wasn't an inch on the concrete floor that wasn't covered in goat poop and pee. they knocked stuff over everywhere. Trash cans knocked down and then they dug through it looking for goodies. They ate most of a 50lb bag of rabbit feed. And got into one of the barrels of goat feed, and got into the beet pulp bag. Hard to tell which one ate the beet pulp. Not a lot of that was gone.

I am most worried about the beet pulp. although I feed it dry, mixed in the grain, and last year had a doe that would just come in and out and eat as much as she wanted to every day. However, I know it can cause problems, if too much dry is eaten at one time.

Anyway, barn is now a mess on the work side.

 

[ksj0225]

Oh gosh... We've had that happen a time or two .


That's gonna make your lack of sleep even worse....

I'm sorry

 

[poorboys]

congrats, glad everthing went well for you, nice kids.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Pippi is being psycho and weird this morning. The minute we left her out of the barn this morning, she ran over to the buck pens, and is standing in the corner with bucks on both sides of the corner, driving them crazy. Flagging and acting like a big old tease. Her belly is gigantic at this point and her udder is as big as a 5 gallon pale, shinny and tight. Clearly she is going into labor. It will be a miracle if Goldman doesn't chew his way out to her, or climb over the fencing he is going nuts. She doesn't need him in with her right now, he is a very very aggressive breeder.

 

[daisychick]

Come on Pippi lets have some babies today!

 

[20kidsonhill]

Nothing, She is just standing in the corner driving Goldman crazy. He is so exhausted he just lays down right there with his face pressed against the gait as close as he can get it to her bottom. She just keep wagging the tail. I think this would be a good example why you shouldn't have your bucks in with your bred does near kidding time.