March Kidding--Anyone due and want to wait with me??

[rebelINny]

Well my doe Freckles kidded on the 20th. She had buck/doe twins but the little buck died a couple days later. This is the doeling, she is an apartment goat lol and is so mischievous. Hopefully soon we will be in a place that she can go out in a barn with the rest of the herd. Her name is Pepper Pots Curly Cue aka Pepper.

 

[SillyChicken]

Cute!!

Well......... April fools was on me today! I picked the wrong kidding month thread!

My poor girl...... this was her first time kidding and she had a whole herd early this morning!

4 doelings (2 tan/white-1 black/white -1 tricolor)
1 buckling (big black/white)

I've called the vet even though I drenched her with calcium and nutri-drench, vit B shot etc. We think she needs some support after all that work.

2 babies were born breech but I couldn't turn them, the one came out ok on it's own, the buckling is twice as big as the rest, I helped pull him out. The last one almost drowned in the sack, she came out with some of the birthing stuff, and I didn't see her till she moved, so I got her out, and cleaned up and she seems ok.

I milked out some colostrum and will give to the littlest ones.. I am not sure if I'm going to pull and bottle feed or just leave with mom and supplement. Guess I'll play it by ear.

 

[newbiekat]

Holy cow!! That IS a whole herd!! FOUR GIRLS??! Wow!! That's awesome!!

 

[SA Farm]

Holy cow!! That IS a whole herd!! FOUR GIRLS??! Wow!! That's awesome!!

X2 Particularly the

 

[Missy]

I see your and raise it a That's a lot of babies!! Congrats they are all beautiful!!!

 

[SillyChicken]

My head is spinning! I'm amazed at the number, the fact that they are all alive (for now, some are pretty small but I'm hopeful)

I decided to call the vet out just to check mom and make sure I was doing things right. I was (thanks to all the help on here)... He gave her a pain killer to help her out a bit (also gave me a bottle of Bo-Se).

I've got my work cut out for me and DH had to travel so he only got to see the first one this morning. I've taken tomorrow off too and hoping work will allow me to split my days working at home and office for a few weeks. I'll be supplement feeding the kids.

I was thrilled to see the little light doeling was also blue eye'd (she's staying for sure!)!! I may keep one more doeling, but the rest will be for sale!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

WOW! Congrats on the new herd! lol Glad they are all alive, a friend of ours had a doe that had 5, 1 DOA and the other passed on day 2

They are beautiful!

 

[goatboy1973]

Update: no Feb, or March kids, more likely late April/ May kids. It is way past the time frame where we should have had kids from our previous herdsire Nacho. We thought he took care of biz (we never saw him breed any does as he was more of a private breeder vs. being a freak show like other previous herdsires who bred does in front of visiting school groups at our farm), looks like our 5 month old Koy Ranch Spanish herdsire found a tree stump somewhere and bred all our does.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

 

[goatboy1973]

Update: we just had a set of twins a few mins. ago from our herd queen Miracle which will make a total of 19 kids in her 8 years on this earth. These 2 kids are the 1st kids born out of our Koy Ranch Spanish herdsire. He was just 5 months old when he bred my does so Miracle must have been near a tree stump when she was bred. LOL!!! The kids are black and white paints. Unsure of sex but will get some pics soon and post them ASAP. The llamas are going nuts because they usually help with cleaning off the newborns and act as a jungle gym for the babies to climb on and also stand guard over them. I have momma in a small lot for birthing along with our young herdsire because I want to put some more weight on him and was a bit worried about Miracle having multiples at her age. Evidently she did just fine and Zorro is now a proud papa.