daisychick
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Glad you found a good home for Nibbles. Sorry you don't get to keep the bottle baby. Love the picture of all of the goats heading in hoping for grain. 
LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM
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X2daisychick said:Glad you found a good home for Nibbles. Sorry you don't get to keep the bottle baby. Love the picture of all of the goats heading in hoping for grain.
RPC
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I don't remember what happened to Nibbles that she lost her kids? I tried to re-read but I got to page 45 and gave up.
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Sorry Roger, it was a rough week for us and we lost Nibble's and Star's kids right at the start. I decided to not post any more negatives after loosing Star's kids, so I never posted about it. She had twin doelings and they were both stillborn. We had one sent to the lab and it never came back positive for anything, other than the necropsy showed that the kid appeared to have fluid in her lungs and a blood clot in her brain indicating brain damage from trauma. None of that made any sense to us, sense she wasn't even half bagged up and never appeared to be in labor, it was like one minute she was pregnant and then there were dead babies laying on the ground. If memory serves me, They weighed around 7 1/2 and 8 lbs. and seemed fully mature.RPC said:
I actually at that point had decided I was going to end the thread if things kept going in that direction. But after loosing Star's kids and Nibbles kids, we had no more problems. Well, we had some bumps in the road, but not any more unexplained problems.
To recap,
Pippi was carrying triplet doelings, and instead of going into labor, she went into heat. Resulting in us having to check her to see if she was dilated and we pulled out two live doelings and a dead doeling that appeared to have been dead for a few days. The weekend before Goldman got out and jumped her and dropped her to the ground. We think he caused some damage.
Lorily prolapsed again, but all went well and we got a doe and buck from her.
And the Galloway Doe, was carrying triplet bucklings 9, 10, 10 lbs, and had to have all the kids pulled out of her. We were only able to save one of them. That was her 3rd time kidding and 3rd time having triplets and 3rd time having to have us pull the kids out of her.
I had one stillborn from Pepper, but she had triplets on her own, and just never got one of them out of the sack.
And Classy Lady was carrying twins, but she delivered on her own, but also had a stillborn along with a live doeling.
So not counting Star and nibbles we had 5 stillborns from 19 does. and 37 live kids.
plus we lost 3 kids from two does right from the start
and I had one doe abort about 6 weeks into her gestation and never bred back
and one other doe that just kept coming into heat, but I think Goldman finally bred her and she should be due in June.
so we started with 23 bred does and ended up with 19 of them kidding, 37 live kids. My goal for the year was 45 kids. So I didn't meet my goal.
But I do have 2 yearling does still to kid in April
and maybe one in June. Maybe that will get us a little closer to our projected 45 kids.
RPC
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Well I hope you get triplets from these last 3 does and you will be at 46. They owe you somehow I am sure LOL. Well good luck you have alot of nice kids to be proud of and I hope someday I will have a herd like yours.
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20kidsonhill
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I did get triplets from a yearling last year. I would be happy with twins from each of them. But One of the yearlings isn't looking that pregnant.RPC said:
Her name is Little B
here is a picture I took of her a couple days ago, but I was intentionally trying to take a picture of her from the side, for the webiste and it doesn't highlight her baby belly at all. She does look more pregnant from the backside than this picture shows. She will be 14 months in April, when she kids.
this is the other yearling doeling, not a flattering picture of her. I really need to work on photos of her. I tried, but she would never put her head up, she is 88% boer/ 12% nubian and out of Pippi. She doesn't have a name yet. She is looking more pregnant than Little B. They are due on the same day. Since the buck got out and bred them both, I know the exact due date. Well, the exact day they will be 150 days pregnant. When they kid is anyones guess.
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And here I am trying to get a decent picture of Daisy for the website, but never got one that I was happy with. Daisy is the doe that I think is bred to Goldman to kid in June. Daisy is the doeling that all the kids are always playing on and loving on.
Here she is checking out the babies that are laying next to some roots.
Then she went on a mission across the field
And ended up checking out some babies on the other side of the field
Here she is checking out the babies that are laying next to some roots.
Then she went on a mission across the field
And ended up checking out some babies on the other side of the field
neener92
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That's so cute!20kidsonhill said:
So glad you found Nibbles a home!
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Daisy sounds like a natural mother. She should be blessed with lots of babies always. It sounds like you had a rough year for kidding, but you still have a bunch of babies and quite a few successful kiddings. PLUS we all learn from you when you do have difficulties, as you are the voice of experience and always tell the story so well even if the outcome isn't so great.
Good luck on your remaining kiddings.
Good luck on your remaining kiddings.
RPC
Overrun with beasties
Daisy seems like one of those does who was born to be a momma. I hope you get some nice kids.
