Pamela
Loving the herd life
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Well, here we go. My Nubian doe, Oreo is our first up. Last year, she delivered triplets early and we lost them all. I thought she was due to deliver between Christmas and New years, but doe code is in full effect. She passed some mucus that week and started bagging up. Now, we are three weeks out, more mucus , lots more udder. I am not so worried about premature kids as I am the weather. Why start kidding season in January in Idaho you ask? Well, most of the time our winters are relatively mild. This one however, has been very harsh. Like much of the country, lots of snow and ice. To top it all off, our high today was still in the single digits. I am really worried that she is going to kid through the night, and we will have frozen popsicle kids. She is in a barn with 3 other does, separated, but it is a fairly small space. It isn't warm by any stretch, but it is out of the worst of the weather. I have my kidding kit ready, . Now we just wait and pray that she goes when I am around.