NEW BABIES HITTING THE GROUND

[Pearce Pastures]

Never is easy to lose.

 

[Sweetened]

My condolences to you and yours. I envy people of faith in events like this as it can help you be strong where the spiritual or spiritless can struggle.

I wish you all the best.

 

[goatboy1973]

My condolences to you and yours. I envy people of faith in events like this as it can help you be strong where the spiritual or spiritless can struggle.

I wish you all the best.

Thanks so much! Yeah, my faith in Christ has gotten me through huge obstacles in my life; some of the obstacles I created out of my own disobedience to God, and some where just there to help me grow in my Christian faith. My faith gives me a totally different outlook on life and an understanding that God owns it all and He entrusts me with some of His creation to care for and He can give or take back what He wants.

We had 2 more of our pure Koy Spanish does kid this morning in the heavy sleet/snow and now all the newborn kiddos are clean, dry, and warm in the barn.

 

[Southern by choice]

Those words are so true Goatboy! Well said!

Congrats on your newest kids!
Hoping this all clears by next week before my next ones are up!
Not worried about the goats... I am just a weather wimp!

 

[goatboy1973]

Those words are so true Goatboy! Well said!

Congrats on your newest kids!
Hoping this all clears by next week before my next ones are up!
Not worried about the goats... I am just a weather wimp!

Thanks SBC! Yeah, I too was hoping these next round of kids would have been born in better weather but this just shows the resilience of the Spanish breed I guess or the goat as a whole.

 

[Sweetened]

Cogratulations on even more additions!!

 

[SueD]

Aww they are adorable GB!!!! How cute. Much luck with them. Cant wait to see more pics.

 

[SueD]

Thanks to all for the well wishes! UPDATE: Today my Dad (the other part of Calfee Farms and my buddy and right hand man) called me at work to tell me that one of our Koy Ranch Spanish does had twins out in the open field and one of them isn't moving. I was close by, but in my work attire (suit and tie). I am a regional coordinator for our local blood bank and had just finished a meeting with a client. I got to the farm and looked with the aid of binoculars and indeed, there lay a tired 1st time momma with 2 big lumps of baby goat out in the wide open pasture with the closest goat half a mile away. I went in the barn and changed out of my dress shoes and into a pair of rubber knee boots and tucked my pant legs into the boots and tucked my tie into my shirt so I wouldn't accidentally dip it into afterbirth. I grabbed a 5 gal bucket and filled it 1/4 of the way with shop towels and headed to the field. The momma goat jumped up and sprinted to another pasture with the rest of the herd never looking back. She abandoned her kids so I thought. We tried to herd her back to her newborn kids several times without success. So I told dad that we would probably need to start bottle feeding the twin that was still alive. I headed back to the house with a 5 gallon bucket of baby goat to bottle feed when I heard a peep out of the corner of one of the loafing sheds and a doe that looked as if she wasn't that far along had birthed in the 30 minutes it took to find out that the Spanish momma rejected her kids. Then the light bulb went off in my head. I took the surviving Spanish twin over to the commercial doe that had just kidded and dried the twin off with a shop towel and grabbed a handful of commercial doe afterbirth and began slathering it all over the orphaned twin. I then placed the orphan right beside the newly born commercial kid and watched the commercial doe clean both kids off and nudge both her kid and the orphan toward her udder for some colostrum. In a million years this will not happen to me again. Later on this evening, Dad called me and told me that the Spanish momma came to the barn and took her twin back. Go figure! During all this, I managed not to get one bit of goat juice on my clothes. LOL!!! Total today we had 3 kids born and 2 survived. The one we lost was stillborn or died shortly after birth. I got back to the office and no one knew what I had been through. They wouldn't have believed me if I told them I was helping to bring baby goats into the world. I was the best dressed farmer in Tennessee!!! What a lunch break I had today.

Wow, what a day that was. Im glad things have gone well for the new momma too. Hope they continue to do well.

 

[SueD]

Bitter sweet this morning! Awoke this morning to find our 2nd set of Spaniko twins up and bouncing around. Then upon going to the field found our last Spaniko to birth dead with her head tangled up in the fence and she was in the middle of birthing twins so we gained a set of Spaniko twins and lost a set and a good Spaniko brood doe. This was a BIG blow to our new breeding program. There's a passage of scripture in the Bible that says, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh; blessed be the name of the Lord!". I believe this was the words of Job when he was being tested. No other words more suited to this morning than those. Now the wait for our Spanubian kids to start hitting the ground this week. Maybe we will have a little better luck.

Ooooh, so sorry about that one. Thats tough.....big hugs

 

[alsea1]

Sorry to hear about such tragedy. I take it hard when I lose an animal.
Sure hope your weather gets better.
Here in Oregon we had warm, sunny weather.