LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

[jodief100]

I am looking forward to your kiddings almost as much as I am mine! Thank you so much for the photos!

I am terrified! I always get nervous before the first couple start to kid. After that I calm down. I worry I haven't fed them enough, that I have fed them too much. that I don't have the barn arranged properly, that the bigger does are being too mean to the smaller does, ect.... ect...

So glad I am not the only one. I will stay nervous until it warms up again.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I am looking forward to your kiddings almost as much as I am mine! Thank you so much for the photos!

I am terrified! I always get nervous before the first couple start to kid. After that I calm down. I worry I haven't fed them enough, that I have fed them too much. that I don't have the barn arranged properly, that the bigger does are being too mean to the smaller does, ect.... ect...

So glad I am not the only one. I will stay nervous until it warms up again.

I am actually wishing it would get colder for us, so the ground would freeze and it wouldn't be so muddy. I am tired of slopping around in all the mud. and i don't want the new born kids to have to slop around in mud, They are get so dirty, and make their mom's so dirty looking. We have more rain in the forcast Thursday. And over the weekend they are calling for a couple colder nights down in the low 20's.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I'm sorry you have one prolapsing this year... But that picture if VERY educational for us. Thank you for taking the picture and sharing it with us.

thank you, and your welcome for the picture.

 

[20kidsonhill]

So excited for your does to start kidding . Don't worry I'm sure we will all be here for you when you get nervous

Thank you.

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

Best of luck with everybody and thanks for the update!

 

[jodief100]

I am terrified! I always get nervous before the first couple start to kid. After that I calm down. I worry I haven't fed them enough, that I have fed them too much. that I don't have the barn arranged properly, that the bigger does are being too mean to the smaller does, ect.... ect...

So glad I am not the only one. I will stay nervous until it warms up again.

I am actually wishing it would get colder for us, so the ground would freeze and it wouldn't be so muddy. I am tired of slopping around in all the mud. and i don't want the new born kids to have to slop around in mud, They are get so dirty, and make their mom's so dirty looking. We have more rain in the forcast Thursday. And over the weekend they are calling for a couple colder nights down in the low 20's.

I hear you, I am so sick of mud. The forcast tomorrow is "a drencher". Yogurt had her baby in a mud puddle last year and I do not want a repeat of that. I keep gettign requests for pictures and I do not want to send pictures to clients of dirty muddy does.

It sounds like you are getting our weather a day after us. Sorry, I will try and send you something better. It would help if Rolls would quit sending us the nasty weather after she is done with it.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Ages of some of the does:

I was just pulling out records and looking at some of the ages of the does. What I learned is some of my does are older than I realized.

Nibbles and her sister Tori are 9 years and 1 month

Pippi and her sister Tina are 8 1/2

Sparky and Lorily are 7 years old, I was thinking they were maybe 5.

Snowball and Star are 5 years, I had no idea star was that old, I was thinking she was 3,

Dancer is 7 1/2, she is really holding up well.

Of course there are others, but Sparky and Lorily were of interest too me, because they are both on the list for possibly culling this year. and I was feeling bad that they hadn't held up any better than that for being 5 years old, I feel a little better that they are 7.

I want to make sure that I am working on genetics in my herd that don't fall apart in 4 or 5 years.

 

[Mamaboid]

Isn't it amazing how fast time flys by. I was typing a post about one of the goats the other day and was stating her age. I was typing that she was 6 months old when I suddenly realized that she was 6 months old when I got her, 7 months ago. Sheesh, you don't think we age that fast do you?

 

[20kidsonhill]

Prolapse has gotten a lot worse, we are calling the vet today to discuss our options. Since we know her due date, we are discussing having her sewn up, but you have to be there when labor starts, so you hve to have some idea of a due date. At this point the prolapse is not going back in and she is very uncomfortable. I took her for a long walk yesterday, hoping exercise would help, poured sugar on it, and we gave her a calcium shot last night.


Otherwise everything is going pretty well. Calling for more rain in the forcast.


Daisy in heat
Oh, I had a doe, Daisy, 5 years old, who came into heat yesterday. I haven't posted pictures of her on here, because she wasn't looking very pregnant and I had written down that she was in heat 3 times, this is not normal to be bred and come back into heat. I suspect she is having fertility problems. Last year she kidded an absolutely huge set of twins, she had them on her own, but she bled really really bad for the next day, I suspect something was damaged. I have never seen a doe bleed as bad as she did after birthing. I didn't weigh the kids, I wish I had, but I would guess they were in the 12 to 14 lb range, each. She was just absolutely huge last year before she kidded and very very uncomfortable.

Anyway, I put her in with Goldman and he was more than happy to spend some time with her. If she comes back into heat again, we will be culling her. I would normally not breed for june kids, but she is full-blood, so the kids are worth the extra effort in the summer, and I am willing to bet she doesn't settle, and will come back into heat, and I don't want to feed her another whole year waiting to see if she will get pregnant next season.

 

[autumnprairie]

Prolapse has gotten a lot worse, we are calling the vet today to discuss our options. Since we know her due date, we are discussing having her sewn up, but you have to be there when labor starts, so you hve to have some idea of a due date. At this point the prolapse is not going back in and she is very uncomfortable. I took her for a long walk yesterday, hoping exercise would help, poured sugar on it, and we gave her a calcium shot last night.


Otherwise everything is going pretty well. Calling for more rain in the forcast.


Daisy in heat
Oh, I had a doe, Daisy, 5 years old, who came into heat yesterday. I haven't posted pictures of her on here, because she wasn't looking very pregnant and I had written down that she was in heat 3 times, this is not normal to be bred and come back into heat. I suspect she is having fertility problems. Last year she kidded an absolutely huge set of twins, she had them on her own, but she bled really really bad for the next day, I suspect something was damaged. I have never seen a doe bleed as bad as she did after birthing. I didn't way the kids, I wish I had, but I would guess they were in the 12 to 14 lb range, each. She was just absolutely huge last year before she kidded and very very uncomfortable.

Anyway, I put her in with Goldman and he was more than happy to spend some time with her. If she comes back into heat again, we will be culling her. I would normally not breed for june kids, but she is full-blood, so the kids are worth the extra effort in the summer, and I am willing to bet she doesn't settle, and will come back into heat, and I don't want to feed her another whole year waiting to see if she will get pregnant next season.

hope everything turns out ok.