Lunch Creek kidding thread

[BlessedWithGoats]

Are their mouths warm? If so, yes, try and get them some colostrum from their mom. If their mouths are cold, you need to get their body temp up first, I believe so they can digest the food?

Congrats!!

@Goat Whisperer @Southern by choice and others can provide more information.

 

[Latestarter]

Congrats on 4 live kids. What BWG just said... milk out colostrum from mom to give to them. Make sure they all get some, the sooner the better. From what I understand it's pretty common with boers that they often don't produce enough milk to adequately feed even twins. You may have to pull the two smallest and make them bottle babies... If you have another goat producing adequately, you could supplement them with the other doe's milk. Good luck!

 

[Sunny Searle]

Okay, they have all had colostrum from a bottle and two have figured out how to nurse so they are with Maisie. We will be bottle feeding the other two. Thanks for your advice! I am exhausted...... quads are so much work.

 

[Sunny Searle]

In the last 24 hours I have helped deliver 7 kids. Tornado kidded yesterday afternoon. She had twins, a doeling and a buckling. Then Spot, Bambi, and Lickaroo all lost their ligaments last night. Spot went first. She had a long amber rope at 1 am and was pushing a little but not really making progress. I went inside to rest and my sister in law checked her a few times. Then at 5 I decided to do an internal exam to see what was going on. The kid was huge! And posterior, and head first no hooves. So I pushed him back in and flipped him, and grabbed the hooves. She pushed and I pulled and I was sweating like a crazy. It was HARD. I finally got him out. She laid on the ground for a while in shock and the kid was super tired too. He was 5lbs even. Which is pretty big for how small Spot is. Anyway, it was traumatic.

So I slept from 6-9 and then went out check goats and Bambi was pushing. She had a doeling and a Buckling. We got them cleaned up and Lickaroo started pushing, she had two HUGE bucklings. So anyway. I am exhausted. I am going to take a little nap.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Congratulations on so many doe's, i lost count of how many kids were born...sounds like you NEED a rest...good luck with the new kids.

 

[Latestarter]

Total cuteness in those pics! Congrats on the successful births and the assist!