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Kidding Has Commenced!

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 0:01

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River’s due date was January 24th, so I’d been on kidding watch for the past four or five days. On Monday morning, the 23rd, she stayed back in the barn while the others went out to pasture. Not much was going on by lunchtime, so I thought I had some time and put her in the kidding pen. I went in to make lunch, came back about an hour later, and found this!

So, I missed it! The black is a little buck and the spotted is a little doe.

Yes, he’s quite a bit bigger and heavier than she is.

I’m thinking that the buck came first because River was cleaning him off when I got there whereas the little doe was still covered in birth membranes. It was sunny but chilly so I helped dry them off. They were up on their feet in no time. Then came the business of finding that first meal.

I usually try to help with this, but goats are stubborn from the git-go! Even when you rub their little noses on a teat they clamp their mouths shut and push away with all their might. Sheesh.

Here they are the next day, dried off and sporting their little sweaters.

River and her twins

Little buck

Little doe

All of this was much earlier than I planned, but we had a buck breakout last August and we weren’t able to get the bucks back before they’d done the deed. The other doe was Sky, who is due any minute now too. The amazing thing is, they were bred by the bucks I intended to put them with anyway!

Kidding Has Commenced! © January 2023

by Leigh at http://www.5acresandadream.com

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