LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[ksj0225]

This is the link to the nipple, it just fits over the end of a soda pop bottle, doesn't screw on. Doesn't leave air into the bottle, so every know and then the kid has to let go to let air back in.
http://www.jefferslivestock.com/lambar-feeding-outfit/camid/LIV/cp/16743/

Yup, we use those and LOVE them!!!

 

[SDBoerGoats]

So you have to bottle feed babies too! I am not liking it this time, I am too busy this time of year. Is your doe just not making enough milk? Penny has plenty of milk, but for some reason, the one buckling just won't nurse. Joey, with the legs, will nurse if you hold him up to mom and hold her, but she's so wild she jumps around and he gets knocked off.
So I guess I am just going to settle in with the bottles. But I am going to try and get them to use the bucket maybe tomorrow. I LOVE Pritchard nipples! I had the ones to go on the pop bottles and the babies I had in January hated them. I got the Pritchards and they went to town on the bottle. I even have Pritchards on my nursing bucket.

I think I will keep both kinds available, just in case.

My bottle baby is from a first time doe, who had twins. She is taking care of one of them, but she rejected her 2nd born. Hopefully she will do better the next time.

Same thing happened to us, one of our first timers took the buckling and loves him to death. But she wouldn't have anything to do with the doeling. So we left her with her mom so she could be with the herd but bottle fed her. When she saw me coming with the bottle she would come running, never had to chase her down!

I mis spoke about my bucket nurse, I TRIED to put the Pritchards on it, but it leaked. Luckily I had also ordered the red nipples that were suggested and used them on the last babies. They didn't like the bigger ones at first but they got the hang of it. These new babies, although I don't think are under sized, 8.8 lb and 9 lb at birth, wouldn't use the bigger nipples last night so I am back to the bottles for now. I so wish they could use the bucket, bottle feeding 4 times a day takes a lot of my time.

 

[20kidsonhill]

New kids are still showing interest in a bottle, doeling drank 10 ounces and buckling drank 4. I am considering pulling the doeling and bottle feeding her and offering her for sale as a bottle baby. But we will see how it goes over the next few days. She actually ran up to me, and looked happy to see me and the bottle.

I have to go through Goldman's pen right now to get to the new kids, and he decided to challenge me while I was carrying some hay. I won, but all I had was my bare hands, so my hand is a little sore right now, since when I aimed for his ear, I hit his horn one time by accident, but after a couple good smacks on the ear and me hollering at him, he backed down and stood 10 feet away from me. I can see this boy needs to be taught some manners. I would love to try to get him back up in the field with the other bucks, but I have one getting ready to be rented out, and another one for sale, and I don't want them all beat up. So for know he is separated, but sharing adjoining fence lines.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I decided to take my camera out to get new photos of Little B, so you all could see that she has a month to go and I am right and my husband's prediction of her being due this week was wrong.



and.........................................

We have a little girl. Of course there is grass everywhere and she had her in the dirt.

 

[Mitransplant]

What a cute kid! Congrats! Of course they have them in the dirt when there are other better places. Beautiful baby!

 

[wannacow]

Congratulations!!

 

[Mamaboid]

Gonna be no livin with the hubby, but that baby is worth it. Beautiful.

 

[ksalvagno]

Congrats on all your new kids!

 

[SDBoerGoats]

I thought before I read your post she was roan! Love her dark coloring, she is a doll.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I am very excited, I had my first person contact us after looking at our website, interested in buying goats. They found our website by searching for goats in VA and it came up. I have been working on key words and trying to get the search engines to bring our site up. Looks like it is finally working.
I haven't ran out of goats to sell yet. But I have lots of them already spoken for and we just weaned some of them, and some of them are still on their mom's.