Baymule
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Congrats on the 2 sets of twins! You are a good Goatie Grandpa!
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Mini Horses
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Congrats on the new kids!! I'm with you, no matter who "claims" & feeds them, it's ok. Milk the other & use it.
I have a mother/daughter pair due 3/30 -- yep, same day, normal -- & both have always had trips. I try to keep them apart for a few hrs to get the kids on right gal, 6 is just too many for one.
AND they both give me bucklings (14 of 15 born in past). Poor little doeling born last year almost lost her tail from so many checks by me. 
SUPER congrats on the fence progress. Wish we were close as I do have a backhoe you could use. They are very, very nice for many things. Glad I invested.
NEXT -- you guys are a mess with knee & back problems! Yeah, my back gets sore after a long, hard day but, stretching and an Aleve generally knock it all out. Mine is sore muscle tho. The bones & cartilage is good. I'm happily lucky.
I have a mother/daughter pair due 3/30 -- yep, same day, normal -- & both have always had trips. I try to keep them apart for a few hrs to get the kids on right gal, 6 is just too many for one.
AND they both give me bucklings (14 of 15 born in past). Poor little doeling born last year almost lost her tail from so many checks by me. SUPER congrats on the fence progress. Wish we were close as I do have a backhoe you could use. They are very, very nice for many things. Glad I invested.
NEXT -- you guys are a mess with knee & back problems! Yeah, my back gets sore after a long, hard day but, stretching and an Aleve generally knock it all out. Mine is sore muscle tho. The bones & cartilage is good. I'm happily lucky.
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Bruce, teat size and udder size are two different things. Both Dot and Bang have very large udders but while Bang has pencil teats, Dot has sausage teats.
So it's been an interesting morning already... Woke up to lots of goat crying (all house windows are open). Put two bottles (1 from each mom) from the fridge into a bowl of hot water to warm them up and headed down to check babies and feed. So first things first, the head count... but there are only 3 babies
So I'm looking under laying down goats and under piles of wood chips, out around the shelter and pen... not there 
Widen the search area and he's laying in a hole outside the pen fence sleeping Guess I've already got a wanderer on my hands. The other 3 are all in a pile in a back corner of the shelter. Just glad the dingbat didn't lay down in a fire ant nest. So I carried all 4 up and tried to get some more of their mom's colostrum in them. 2 drank well, the other 2 didn't. After bringing the last one back down, he promptly latched onto Bang and fed. Of course this was one of Dot's boys 
Bang seems to be tending to all of them.
Bang was very lopsided so I milked out the filled to bursting side by about 1/2. Dot didn't seem to have been emptied at all so I milked out both sides by 1/2. Needless to say, I have multiple ziplocks with colostrum in the freezer now. I think I had a little over 3/4 of a gallon. Started out the day with clean jeans and a clean T-shirt. That turned out to be a waste of clean clothing... neither are clean anymore.
So it's been an interesting morning already... Woke up to lots of goat crying (all house windows are open). Put two bottles (1 from each mom) from the fridge into a bowl of hot water to warm them up and headed down to check babies and feed. So first things first, the head count... but there are only 3 babies
So I'm looking under laying down goats and under piles of wood chips, out around the shelter and pen... not there Widen the search area and he's laying in a hole outside the pen fence sleeping Guess I've already got a wanderer on my hands. The other 3 are all in a pile in a back corner of the shelter. Just glad the dingbat didn't lay down in a fire ant nest. So I carried all 4 up and tried to get some more of their mom's colostrum in them. 2 drank well, the other 2 didn't. After bringing the last one back down, he promptly latched onto Bang and fed. Of course this was one of Dot's boys Bang seems to be tending to all of them. Bang was very lopsided so I milked out the filled to bursting side by about 1/2. Dot didn't seem to have been emptied at all so I milked out both sides by 1/2. Needless to say, I have multiple ziplocks with colostrum in the freezer now. I think I had a little over 3/4 of a gallon. Started out the day with clean jeans and a clean T-shirt. That turned out to be a waste of clean clothing... neither are clean anymore.
Mike CHS
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My clean clothes in the morning stay clean till I go out to give the sheep their alfalfa. They are all at the gate before I get there and I have to push my way through wet sheep bodies to get to the feeding troughs. 40 wet crowding sheep can leave an awful lot of hair and dirt on a person.
animalmom
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Congrats on the new kids... although Dingbat is not particularly a nice name. I suppose you could just call him Ding.
Bruce
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Must be why "real" farmers have their overalls, get them dirty doing chores, take them off, put them back on the next day?? I suppose I should wash my insulated Carhartt coveralls this spring. Never got around to it last year.That turned out to be a waste of clean clothing... neither are clean anymore.
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And another set of twins on the ground: buckling and doeling. CB did me proud! Had no idea she was carrying two, but sure enough 
The boy is all white, the girl is all black. I guess CB doesn't believe in mixed colors... I'll check em over closer after they get a bit more stable. No apparent face stripes on these two. I've watched both try to latch on. Mom's a little unsure about all that and seems more interested in cleaning them at the moment. I need to get back out there with the iodine.
Was getting chilly here and the wind is picking up so I moved all three into the shelter. Dot's in the back corner with the other 4.
That makes 6 kids even split 3 bucklings, 3 doelings.
The boy is all white, the girl is all black. I guess CB doesn't believe in mixed colors... I'll check em over closer after they get a bit more stable. No apparent face stripes on these two. I've watched both try to latch on. Mom's a little unsure about all that and seems more interested in cleaning them at the moment. I need to get back out there with the iodine.Was getting chilly here and the wind is picking up so I moved all three into the shelter. Dot's in the back corner with the other 4.
That makes 6 kids even split 3 bucklings, 3 doelings.
Mike CHS
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Congratulations!!
Wehner Homestead
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Awesome!! Very cute babies!
Baymule
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Two more! 3/3 is great! Now you need a pig to help drink all that milk. LOL The little black doeling is so cute!
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