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In the last 24 hours I have helped deliver 7 kids. Tornado kidded yesterday afternoon. She had twins, a doeling and a buckling. Then Spot, Bambi, and Lickaroo all lost their ligaments last night. Spot went first. She had a long amber rope at 1 am and was pushing a little but not really making...

Okay, they have all had colostrum from a bottle and two have figured out how to nurse so they are with Maisie. We will be bottle feeding the other two. Thanks for your advice! I am exhausted...... quads are so much work.

Holy cow! Maisie has quads!!!!!! She just kidded. She is my brother In laws doe and of course he is out of town with his wife. My husband and i have 3 human kids one of which is 6 months old and we are trying to juggle kids and goats and it’s 10degrees outside! Aghhhh! Can a boer doe support 4...

Dyna kidded today! She had no ligaments at 9:30 a.m. so I checked on her every hour or so. I checked her at 12:45 and she wasn’t doing anything. At 1:20 she had a kid on the ground. It was only about 12 degrees and the amniotic fluid was turning into an icy gel. My sister in law took her inside...

Faline kidded yesterday right before we headed to a family Christmas party. I got there in time to catch a white doeling with black eye makeup. We are naming her Flower from the movie Bambi because Falines dams name is Bambi. We are pleased and are waiting impatiently for the other kids!

We bred them for this time of year for 3 reasons, one, we usually kid the end of January which is actually colder than right now. Two, the market is high in March for weaned goats here so we wanted them to be ready to sell when the prices were up. And 3, we have started selling some of our kids...

Kidding season is upon us! We have 8 does due between Christmas and the middle of January, although most of them will probably be kidding by the end of the week. We have 3 first fresheners, I think they are all having one. I am so excited! I think our ff Spot will go first, her ligaments are all...

Busy day! I had a doctors appointment and my mom was watching my kids. When I left Lickaroo s teats had finally filled and my mom called me while I was waiting for the doctor and said that Lickaroo had a long Amber rope. I hurried home after the appointment and watched her push for a bit and...

I think so, my husband likes to keep all doeling kids. She does have very pretty colors though! My three year old named her Rose.

In other news Lickaroo and Tornado are looking close. I have a due date for Lickaroo and that is February 10 so today is Day 147. I took a picture of her Monday and one this afternoon. Any guesses on when she will go? Her ligaments are really loose today but I can still find them. Tornado...

I went to check cows this morning with my husband, we left at 7:30 and there were no kids, we came back at 9 and Maple had kidded! She had them mostly dried off and nursing. The grey one is a doeling and the black one is a Buckling. These Kiko goats are quite self sufficient. I am really...

Bucklings Doeling

Looks like Maisie likes day 155! Two bucks one doe, my brother has been watching them because my husband and I are at a YF&R Conference, can’t wait to get home and snuggle those babies!

Well it is day 151 for Maisie and she is driving me crazy! Her ligaments are coming and going, never quite disappearing. Yesterday she was stretching her neck so that it almost touched her back and was doing that lip thing that bucks do to smell the does. She has had so much mucus that I...

So today is 145 for Maisie, she is passing quite a bit of mucus and when I felt her ligaments this morning they were quite soft, almost not there, it’s supposed to snow this weekend so that is probably when she will have them. So my boer doe Tornado is due,??? Yeah I don’t know, before February...

Oh my! She looks ready to pop, can’t wait to see those kids!

I would be okay with bucklings because we sell them for meat, also my husband has a habit of wanting to keep all doelings, which is good in theory but it will cause overcrowding issues.

Day 144 for Maisie, her ligaments are still there but it is very soft on both sides. She has been having lots of mucous and her bag is filling even more, it never got shiny last year, but close. Any guesses on how many are in there?

We have 7 does that are supposed to kid between January 22 and March 27. We are excited because we have introduced a Kiko sure to our herd and are hoping for some fast growing, hearty meat goats. 4 if our does are boer with one Kiko doe and two Nubian does. Maisie is due January 22 and she is a...

This is what it looks like, Lickaroo has more spots on her udder you just can't see them cause they are on the underside of her udder and she wasn't exactly cooperative.