Mini Horses 2024 & 2025 kidding

[Baymule]

Twins! Girls too!

 

[Mini Horses]

Just in from bottle time. Checked all mom/babes while out there. Most all are great moms.....but, I think the black doe has hired a nanny . Yep, those twins like mom & hang with another doe, too. She's to kid in a couple weeks so maybe practicing "huggles". Today's found twins & doe all snuggled up in the shed where she had them. I'll get them moved tomorrow, although they're good there for now. Closed in, open door & window, off wind side. Big 10x14. Another 12x14 open, 3 sided.

30F now & dropping. 25ish at daybreak. Had some spitting, frozen rain going on. Saw it on stuff as I walked by. They said we might get flurries overnight. Really don't need or want it!!

 

[Baymule]

Your accommodations for new mothers rival the Holiday Inn. All sound happy, warm in this cold weather, well fed and cared for.

 

[Mini Horses]

Let's hope. Remember, I've had 25 yrs here!! This is an accumulation over time, although the barn was up shortly after house, the rest took several years.

Heck, I'm at rework & replace some of it now

 

[Baymule]

Sometimes I feel like I’m never going to catch up. I thought I’d have this whole place fenced by now. The back field is probably close to half of this 25 acres. I have enough projects to do here that will last the rest of my life and beyond that. LOL

 

[Mini Horses]

The one who was being a "nanny" had her own twins late afternoon. Boy/girl twins. Everyone had kids out playing today. A couple got tired, curled up with new friends & drove moms nuts screaming for them. I retrieved and got them back together. The fun of a shepherd

15 tonight for here it's at least 20 below our normal. Yikes. Hot water in morn. Got by with just breaking it up this morning. Not tomorrow!

 

[farmerjan]

Down to 13 here and not even midnight... BRRRR.... glad that you got the kids on the ground, and have nursed and all settled with mom's....
We had 2 calves , DS saw them Sunday morning.... on 2 of the 4 cows that should have calved in Dec... and they were doing okay. Blessing that they were already up and had obviously sucked....since we got all that crummy weather Sunday night/Monday.... the other 2 did not look near as far along... not sure what the deal was, they were not supposed to be this far behind....

 

[Mini Horses]

This morn I see nanny mom nursing her own & ones she was "adoring" from black doe. I'll collar her as a keeper...sometimes I need a foster mom. Plus, she's full dairy. I'll milk her this yr.

Then wandering thru barns, find doe with twin does has decided her girls were ready to meet everyone. But one stayed with her & another got tied up with friends...pulled her back so field bond & mom screams from mom entered her brain! Confusing for youngins. Doe is tame & dairy, she'll be on milk line this yr, too.

Then I find twins, full Boer kids...boys...fresh this morn, as doe clean out is there, wet & not frozen. See mom at hay. Hmmm, smallish kids. But her single doeling from last yr is lovely. This is a smaller doe, so she & the boys will go to market.

 

[Baymule]

Adding Boers to your flock seems to be going well for you. Babies this time of year gets tough with bad weather, but at least there’s no worms to slaughter them. I’m trying to look on the bright side. I TOLD mine to lamb in September-November! They didn’t listen.

 

[Mini Horses]

Both of our areas do not have long, harsh winter -- normally! Which is why we're where we are the dairy are seasonal breeders, Boer yr round. So summer babies, too. I'm still not sure if/who of mixed girls will be off- seasonal. Only a couple retained and FF now.

I've had a couple dairy breed mid March (Aug kids) & a few bred late July or early Aug ... Both extreme ends of seasonal. Handsome young buck?