'You've Got to Be Kidding!' One More Down and One to Go- Honey Dreame Farms

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So Queenie FINALLY got her act together today. :celebrateShe was 5-6 days past her due date and had been leading us on with random contractions and disappearing ligaments for more than a week. She was big enough we were thinking triplets, but it was just twins - big ones, and believe it or not...they were both does!!! :eek: It about knocked my socks off (current count is 6 does, 0 bucks).

We had a bit of a scare with the first baby (the black and brown one). She presented head first with one leg forward and one back. I tried to reposition her, but she came too fast, so I pulled while Queenie pushed. Poor mama was exhausted after that, and she didn't stand up at all until a little while after the second doe was born (the mostly white tri-color). After Queenie took a breather, she was up and the girls were nursing like pros.

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A little wet and goopy, but very cute!

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We thought Sophie was going to pop tonight too. She was definitely having sympathy contractions - I thought I might have to juggle two births at once, but the contractions eased up, and she went back to chewing her cud. :)

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What are you doing to get all these does?

Not sure - it's really pure, dumb luck. I guess our bucks were better than we thought they were. They were both first time breeders, so we honestly had no idea how successful it would be. ;)

Lucy surprised us by popping this afternoon - we thought she had a few more days. I got her into a birthing stall minutes before she went into heavy labor. I'll give more details and pictures tomorrow, but she had a cute tri-colored doeling and our first buckling. :celebrate
 
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