OneFineAcre Spring 2015 Kidding Thread - Seperating and weaning babies 1st cut of alfalfa

[OneFineAcre]

She's chewing her cud and they are all nursing really well

 

[norseofcourse]

Oh my goodness - glad they all made it ok and mom seems to be doing well. Will you leave them all on her?

 

[Southern by choice]

You think I did it??
I don't know nothin bout birthin no babies
No Maurine is the one who births the babies
Yea she got legs pointed right
I literally had to hold her in a headlock from front
I put her head on my shoulder with my right arm over top and my left arm underneath
With her screaming in my ear
It was pretty bad
I hate quads
She has had trips, quads, trips and quads
She is an ovulating machine

and Headlock.... ok so I'm thinking it'd been easier for you to go in. Do you still have your hearing?

How is she this am? I always worry if they had to push too hard.
Good weights too. Sounds like you have an itty bitty in there!
where are our pics?

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Congratulations! Pics?

 

[Fullhousefarm]

Congratulations! She likes to have litters.
I agree that twins are great! Triplets were fine too, but we sold one at two weeks and that has worked out really well. Mom appreciated it for sure.

 

[OneFineAcre]

They are doing great this morning, mom and babies. Right now they are all nursing really well too. We will leave them with her for now. The last time she had quads when they got a little bigger and we didn't think she was keeping up, we supplemented the smaller ones with bottles.
With Zamia and Cookie having singles we will have the milk. Maurine milked 4 cups of colostrum from Zamia 24 hours after she kidded.

I will try to get better pics this afternoon.

 

[Southern by choice]

Now they are CUTE!
Who is the sire?

 

[OneFineAcre]

Now they are CUTE!
Who is the sire?

Big Brown.
He's my blue eyed buck. Forgot to mention, two of the kids are blue eyed, one buck one doe.
Rosemary is Big Browns dam and his sire is Woodhaven Farm Luzifer Blue.

These pics are when he was a yearling. He's two now.

 

[HoneyDreameMomma]

Wow - that is so impressive! Nursing quads! And 2 boys, 2 girls - what fun. Congratulations.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

They look like peanut butter cups, all swirly. Mail me one!