Triple Share Nubians 2019 kids and more

[Hens and Roos]

Glad your does came through!

 

[Daxigait]

Glad your does came through!

I am too. I'm also very grateful for a vet willing to come out in the middle of the night.

 

[Daxigait]

So glad Ebony came through! Scary!
Congrats on all the kids. I love bottle babies but there are times where we are so tired we are like can't we dam raise a few. lol
We don't have the facilities to dam raise full time here as it is. So bottle babies it is.

What a beautiful buckling though.

We have some wacky FF this year. Annoying

I know that feeling about being so tired you wish your dams could/would raise a few. I started January 31st and I'm just about to finish my manger I kept trying day it's going to become a culling tool for me if you aren't showing any more and are cae negative if they won't or can't raise they kids unless you're spectacular than they will be gone.

 

[Mini Horses]

Cull a good doe, FF for not knowing to feed kids? I have done some "momma 101" classes and find the does respond well with patience. Best to do ASAP. I normally get a few squirts out of each teat, into a syringe, then some onto her teat. Squirt a little in the kids mouth from syringe & put them by the milk covered teat. They normally latch right on! I will hold the doe, talk and scratch her shoulders, let her sniff the kid, etc. Generally, this only takes a couple times and they all bond. I've made trips to the barn every couple hrs all night to be sure they are nursing and tummies full. This is what FEM was suggesting above.

My doe who kidded a few days ago was FF and a tight birth...but, she is doing great now! First hour I knew I had to do this or bottle them. Few hrs now is better than weeks of it!

BUT -- many prefer to bottle and that is fine !!! I like to "co-parent".

 

[Daxigait]

Cull a good doe, FF for not knowing to feed kids? I have done some "momma 101" classes and find the does respond well with patience. Best to do ASAP. I normally get a few squirts out of each teat, into a syringe, then some onto her teat. Squirt a little in the kids mouth from syringe & put them by the milk covered teat. They normally latch right on! I will hold the doe, talk and scratch her shoulders, let her sniff the kid, etc. Generally, this only takes a couple times and they all bond. I've made trips to the barn every couple hrs all night to be sure they are nursing and tummies full. This is what FEM was suggesting above.

My doe who kidded a few days ago was FF and a tight birth...but, she is doing great now! First hour I knew I had to do this or bottle them. Few hrs now is better than weeks of it!

BUT -- many prefer to bottle and that is fine !!! I like to "co-parent".

I've had those that I've worked with and done fine but this dough keeps kicking them away and you try to hold her like she really fights but she'll hang out with them. I'm not saying I'm going to call her right now I probably gave her one more chance I'm just saying is going to become a calling till I work over 55 hours a week and I kidded out 14 dose. I can't have too many more than the few I already have that won't or can't raise their own kids. There's a limit to what I can physically and mentally do it's not enjoyable anymore. I need to sleep so I don't drive into something and I need to be able to occasionally just something I like to do like ride my horse..
I did what I could with this year but like I said I'll give her another chance and I'm trying to keep her with the kids as much as I can right now, but I had no Choice with her kidding at 10:30 by the time I get them cleaned up and ready and trying to get her to pay attention to them and I kept checking on her but I had another day going to stress by 1:30 the bed out at three doing an emergency delivery. thankfully she didn't have to do a C-section. I do have to raise that kid. it sees those it'll do everything but let them nurse and kick at them and stuff that are the problem she won't even cooperate on the milk stand. I ended up just milking her partway out and feeding that milk to her babies and then I've tried every time I put her on the stand since thenI end I'm not going to have her hurt a kid.
besides I'm just at my limit I'm starting at 3:45 or 4 in the morning during couple hours of chores going work to work for 11 or 12 hours coming back home and doing two and a half to three hours of chores getting done after 9 at night usually around 9:30 have something to eat go back out and feed the last milk go to bed about 10:30 and repeat.

 

[Mini Horses]

Oh, I understand! AND -- I'm with you on keeping the ones who work better with all of it. Just glad to see she at least takes all other responsibilities of mothering. That helps. My one with trips this yr -- feeding all three. Last yrs trips she fed 2 and I one but she did all else. Believe it was that 2 came and some hold time for #3...for some reason, she did all but nurse that kid. I would call the doeling to the fence, stick a bottle up, she'd nurse and back to mom. Used mom's milk!

No way you can easily handle your work load and a lot of bottle babes! It's just too much. Heck, how can you even milk? I have a couple months of those type hours -- this is the season! -- and it's hard to even attempt more than absolute on those weeks.

Unfortunately, jobs are often a need.

I came home to twin does from a FF today...dry, full tummy and nursing. Another doe in barn, early labor. She's actually the mom to this 2 y/o FF doe. Will have more kids on the farm tonight. So, on barn check, until --- I'm sure it's twins, hope more girls.

 

[Daxigait]

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Oh, I understand! AND -- I'm with you on keeping the ones who work better with all of it. Just glad to see she at least takes all other responsibilities of mothering. That helps. My one with trips this yr -- feeding all three. Last yrs trips she fed 2 and I one but she did all else. Believe it was that 2 came and some hold time for #3...for some reason, she did all but nurse that kid. I would call the doeling to the fence, stick a bottle up, she'd nurse and back to mom. Used mom's milk!

No way you can easily handle your work load and a lot of bottle babes! It's just too much. Heck, how can you even milk? I have a couple months of those type hours -- this is the season! -- and it's hard to even attempt more than absolute on those weeks.

Unfortunately, jobs are often a need.

I came home to twin does from a FF today...dry, full tummy and nursing. Another doe in barn, early labor. She's actually the mom to this 2 y/o FF doe. Will have more kids on the farm tonight. So, on barn check, until --- I'm sure it's twins, hope more girls.

I hope everything goes well with your other kidding and glad that one went well.I love my hello baby saves trips out to the barn.
I have a mess here because of the AI efforts I did I've started kidding 31st of January and February 3rd they were do the second. therefore these babies have to start now and my other ones are 10 weeks old I was almost done it's just tough and makes me cranky. I plan on using cidr on all of them to try to keep it as close together as I can.

 

[Daxigait]

I have a young buckling about 9 weeks old pesters everybody he's really sure he wants to be a buck.
Well Laurel who is less than three weeks old, finally had enough and gave him a little lesson

It is even funnier cuz she is much much smaller than he is.

 

[Daxigait]

Well, the last group are disbudded except the late pregnancy because of a loss She is not due till 5/30. I pray she's as good a mother as she was last year because I can't do any more kids I'm beyond exhausted and these current babies will be over halfway to weaning before she even kids.
A goat mentor taught me how to disbud. While it is still an incredibly unpleasant thing the method she use is so much better than what I've seen before. I think the key is the cutting. She does the down (any down is done with quick twisting and no real pressure so there's not a persistent hot down). Then she uses a really sharp knife and cuts the bud next to the skull then goes down for a quick count of three if there's any real bleeding then rubs or uses it like a pencil across the top of the bud before going down for the quick count of 3-5 again. My kids are reacting much better to this method. I have now even done a couple and that's something I never imagined being able to do.

This weekend also involved beginning the arduous process of getting everybody trimmed, and udders done for linear appraisaI. I did not click the others as tight as a show, just enough to clean them up. I've got to find my bigger clippers because it was three times as bad using the smaller pair. Especially GiGi who has enough hair for four goats. They do look good though when they're cleaned up.

 

[Daxigait]

My youngest group being guarded by the funny mama the two girls. She doesn't nurse them but she really seems to want to do everything else. She tolerates a little buckling who because of the fact I feed them all as become part of the group whether she likes it or not


The baby's enjoying the sun before I pull the oldest four which include the three laying towards the front and the one trying to crawl in the hay feeder.



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