LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[20kidsonhill]

I wish you were closer...I need a baby fix...

Do you think I am making a big mistake, by not just putting her on a bottle? We are talking about letting them all out together during the day, but then penning snowball with the doeling up seperate from the bucklings at night.

 

[jodief100]

I wish you were closer...I need a baby fix...

Do you think I am making a big mistake, by not just putting her on a bottle? We are talking about letting them all out together during the day, but then penning snowball with the doeling up seperate from the bucklings at night.

I think that is a good plan. I would monitor her weight gain. if she isn't gaining, then add a bottle a few times a day.

 

[RPC]

To be honest since I am having problems with my triplets. I would introduce a bottle now as a supplement so that it is not such a shock later if you need to supplement. My doe will not take a bottle so 3 times a day I pull the dam and the one kid out and tie the dam up and let the kid go to town. I am very lucky that someone is normally home during the day to do the middle feeding or else I don't know how this would work. That is just my 2 cents.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Galloway doe is in early labor. Going to be a long night.

Here is a little history on her. She is 4 years old. She was born on our farm and is 88% boer/25% nubian. We sold her and she was shown as our county fair and won reserve champion in her weight division. We bought her back. She has kidded twice. Both times she had to be pulled. First time she had one live small doeling, and two deformed kids that we had to have put down. The doeling went to the fair and did pretty well, 2nd in class.
Second time she had one live kid on her own, then nothing so we assisted and she had a deformed mummy and another live kid behind that. So she raised two bucklings, but they never seemed to grow well, even though she has tons of milk and is a really good mom. We took them to market.

So we had a talk with her and asked if she could have a couple normal healthy kids on her own this time. she is bred to Twister, With all the red kids I have gotten from Karamba, I kind of wish I had put her with him.

 

[autumnprairie]

Galloway doe is in early labor. Going to be a long night.

Here is a little history on her. She is 4 years old. She was born on our farm and is 88% boer/25% nubian. We sold her and she was shown as our county fair and won reserve champion in her weight division. We bought her back. She has kidded twice. Both times she had to be pulled. First time she had one live small doeling, and two deformed kids that we had to have put down. The doeling went to the fair and did pretty well, 2nd in class.
Second time she had one live kid on her own, then nothing so we assisted and she had a deformed mummy and another live kid behind that. So she raised two bucklings, but they never seemed to grow well, even though she has tons of milk and is a really good mom. We took them to market.

So we had a talk with her and asked if she could have a couple normal healthy kids on her own this time. she is bred to Twister, With all the red kids I have gotten from Karamba, I kind of wish I had put her with him.

 

[20kidsonhill]

To be honest since I am having problems with my triplets. I would introduce a bottle now as a supplement so that it is not such a shock later if you need to supplement. My doe will not take a bottle so 3 times a day I pull the dam and the one kid out and tie the dam up and let the kid go to town. I am very lucky that someone is normally home during the day to do the middle feeding or else I don't know how this would work. That is just my 2 cents.

this has been my experience as well. Even a couple times I have gotten a runt on a bottle right away and left them on mom. They eventually refussed to take a bottle. I lost one 3 or 4 years ago because of this. She developed such an attitude about the bottle, she would rather starve to death, I tried for 3 days, when she was around three weeks old, and gave up and put her back with mom. I could get her to take the bottle when she was weak, but once she got a couple bottles in her and wised up to what I was doing, she would refuss to eat. I tried three times. and finally she died.

 

[Roll farms]

You're asking the wrong person, I don't trust the mama goats to be as good as me, so I pull 'em all.



She'd be on a bottle for sure if she was here.

Good luck w/ Galloway.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I really need to post a picture of the runt on Snowball, She has a heart on her back. with a traditional dark red head and white body. I was thinking so close to valentine's day, I could get her on a bottle and advertise her for like $500 and sell her as a Valentine's gift.

 

[20kidsonhill]

You're asking the wrong person, I don't trust the mama goats to be as good as me, so I pull 'em all.



She'd be on a bottle for sure if she was here.

Good luck w/ Galloway.

I know I should pull her, I will see how it goes tomorrow.

 

[daisychick]

Come on Galloway doe, lets have some nice healthy babies