Ready or Not....... Shouldvknwnbetter- Fall

[BlessedWithGoats]

Congrats on the new kids!! Love the colors!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Obie is penned with her kids in an area where she can see my kids( human DD, DS and DS) waiting for the bus each morning. They will stand next to her area and when they walk away to get on the bus, she starts calling to them to come back. My kids think it's cute, DD was there when Obie kidded.

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

Aww! That's cute!!

 

[Hens and Roos]

We moved Obie and her triplets back in with the group but into a pen so that they have time to adjust to each other. Of course Obie would like to head butt the others....

 

[Hens and Roos]

okay question for all you that have had goats way longer than us.......

when DD and I did chores tonight we let Obie(and her triplets if they wanted) out into the rest of the area with Maggie, Coco and Rascal(Coco's 7 week old buckling).

Obie immediately went after Rascal trying hard to head butt him and not in play- both Rascal and Obie had a strip of hair standing straight up on their backs and Obie was trying hard to chase him down.

Obie went after both Maggie and Coco a bit but not to the extent that she was going after Rascal. Obie was also making some strange noise- we thought it was our dog Ellie(she was outside the goat area).

Now Obie's kids came out of their area a little and Coco did lower her head a bit and sort of butt at them.

It seemed like when Obie was going after Rascal, her kids were calling for her and they didn't know what to do as Obie was to busy running around.

We did put Obie + triplets back into their own area. Obie isn't always so good about standing still when her kids are wanting to nurse but the kids are gaining weight.

I know that they will need to sort the order out but any insight/suggestions would be great.

 

[Hens and Roos]

We weighed the triplets tonight
Doeling #1- 4 lbs 9 oz
Doeling #2- 5 lbs 5 oz
Buckling - 7 lbs

 

[Hens and Roos]

We feed bread to our chickens....our goats can see this happening and boy o boy did they make a fuss....goats got some too

Forgot to say that a friend of ours found a wooden spool that someone was throwing out... DH picked it up this morning and now the (spoiled) goats will have a new toy!

 

[OneFineAcre]

okay question for all you that have had goats way longer than us.......

when DD and I did chores tonight we let Obie(and her triplets if they wanted) out into the rest of the area with Maggie, Coco and Rascal(Coco's 7 week old buckling).

Obie immediately went after Rascal trying hard to head butt him and not in play- both Rascal and Obie had a strip of hair standing straight up on their backs and Obie was trying hard to chase him down.

Obie went after both Maggie and Coco a bit but not to the extent that she was going after Rascal. Obie was also making some strange noise- we thought it was our dog Ellie(she was outside the goat area).

Now Obie's kids came out of their area a little and Coco did lower her head a bit and sort of butt at them.

It seemed like when Obie was going after Rascal, her kids were calling for her and they didn't know what to do as Obie was to busy running around.

We did put Obie + triplets back into their own area. Obie isn't always so good about standing still when her kids are wanting to nurse but the kids are gaining weight.

I know that they will need to sort the order out but any insight/suggestions would be great.

A lot of our mama's want to fight when they get around each other for the first time after kidding, to the point of ignoring their own babies.
Hormones.

 

[Hens and Roos]

they are doing better today- opened the pen door so Obie and her kids could come out into the bigger area- was just out checking and all was calm! The kids are funny to watch.

 

[Hens and Roos]

does anyone give Probiotic powder in the water? The can I use says it can be put with food or added to the water. Feeding recommendations are given for both kid(2.5 g/head/day) and adult(5 g/head/day-breeding or lactating) but not how much water.