LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[20kidsonhill]

Classy Lady, kidded she has a live girl on her and she had a stillborn buckling. Of course really nice, 1x1 teated. Way it goes. I saw her laying off to herself in the barn breathing kind of heavy and figured she was going to kid in the next couple of days. But I never saw her pushing and I have been too the barn on and off all day. She kidded with in a 2 hour window, when I wasn't out there, The male was still in the sack, 8 lbs, the doeling appears to be around 6lbs, I am still leaving them bond, she is a skittish doe and really young. But she is letting her nurse and talking to her.


JHere she is a few days ago.

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

So sorry about the buckling. Hope the doeling calms down a bit. Hope all goes well, please keep us updated.

 

[neener92]

Sorry about the buckling

 

[20kidsonhill]

going to go out know and take a quick picture. of the two of them. And as far as the buckling, I am kind of bummed about it. Not much more can be said about it than that.


My final count is

19 does

with 36 kids

21 doelings and 15 bucklings.

I have two due, April 17th. Little B and another Q doeling that I haven't named yet. I really need to name her and get some of my registration caught up. they will be 14 months old when they kid.

 

[20kidsonhill]

 

[autumnprairie]

shew is a cute sorry about the buck

 

[20kidsonhill]

I weighed the bottle baby from HOt Mamma and she is 13.5 lbs at 12 days old and has a .5 lbs per day gain. That is better than the other full blood kids who are being dam raised. I guess you can only expect so much from 12 month old does. I did some weights on a couple of them the other day and they were like .25 lbs per day gain. That is pitiful.

So I bred 4 doelings that were just 12 months old beginning of February, and they kidded between 12 months and 13 months of age. This is the youngest I have ever bred our goats. We had 8 conceived kids, 7 born alive, 1 stillborn, and ended up with one of the kids being a bottle baby from a mom that had twins rejecting the 2nd born.

My biggest fear was kidding complications and if memory serves me, I only saw 1 of the 4 actually kidding , they all kidded on their own, and no one needed any assistance. Although, If I had been there when Classy Lady kidded, I probably could have saved the stillborn, who appeared to just be born in the sack.

 

[redtailgal]

Thanks for that info, 20kids. I'll be breeding my does when they are about 12 months old. I am hoping that by kidding time they will have the maturity to raise fat babies.

going back to eavesdropping.

 

[KinderKorner]

All this talk of weight gain is making me curious about my own goats. I don't have meat goats. I have Kinders which is a mini dual purpose cross. I've never thought of weighing them and seeing how much they grow. Heck I don't even weight them at birth.

hmm. I might have to look into that. I would be interested in the growth difference of my goats in comparison to boers.

Sorry about the buckling. Classy Lady is very pretty.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Hi everyone. Long day on the farm. trimming feet and giving copper. We almost cried when we counted the remaining adult animals and realized we still had 9 to do. We are in serious discussion about how many adult does to let go of this spring.

Here are a couple pictures I took today.

this is a kid on Glory and I had not noticed this black spot she has on her neck. I am not sure if it is significant or if it would be something that would fade as she gets older.

A closer look at the spot on Glory's doeling

One of Hot Mamma's doelings,

and Classy Ladies itty bitty doeling at 2 days old. She is so cute. and has a big paint spot on her right shoulder. All three of these doelings are out of Prooved It.