Livinwright Farm's Journal - Our life with goats

[elevan]

Okay, the little spotted girl, the black girl, and the blue eyed boy are around 7 weeks old.... the black girl is 14.2 lbs, pretty much on the money for development... but the pocket sized spotted girl is only 6.6 lbs. The people we got them from said that she barely suckled, because her brother and sister would push her out of the way... when they were done she would be allowed to suckle, but only if the dam was not too sore from the others. IMO, she looks, feels, and in all other ways is as if she was born a week ago, instead of 7 weeks ago.
Wondering if she will ever be full sized, or if she is forever stunted. Anyone here ever had a tiny kid turn out normal sized? if so, what did you do to get them back on track developmentally? Should we just let her suckle off Momma as much as Momma will put up with and give her free choice Goat Grower & Calf Manna?

Run a fecal too in case there's more than meets the eye there.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Okay, the little spotted girl, the black girl, and the blue eyed boy are around 7 weeks old.... the black girl is 14.2 lbs, pretty much on the money for development... but the pocket sized spotted girl is only 6.6 lbs. The people we got them from said that she barely suckled, because her brother and sister would push her out of the way... when they were done she would be allowed to suckle, but only if the dam was not too sore from the others. IMO, she looks, feels, and in all other ways is as if she was born a week ago, instead of 7 weeks ago.
Wondering if she will ever be full sized, or if she is forever stunted. Anyone here ever had a tiny kid turn out normal sized? if so, what did you do to get them back on track developmentally? Should we just let her suckle off Momma as much as Momma will put up with and give her free choice Goat Grower & Calf Manna?

Run a fecal too in case there's more than meets the eye there.

Already on it, even though there are no other signs of something that would show in the fecal.
She has had her CD/T(through mommy & the post kidding booster) will she need another booster or is the one after birth considered the only booster for this year?, and she was wormed(previous owners made sure they were all UTD before the sell).

We could use ideas for names... We were thinking Frank or Sinatra for the blue eyed buckling... either that or something VERY macho... since he is already ALL buck. Just like his daddy! Tossed up between Precious and Polly(as in Pocket) for the little spotted girl... unless someone gives a better name that we like. Need to find a name for the blue eyed, frosted, black doeling.... and names for the two brown eyed, frosted, black bucklings.
I will be posting a seperate post under 'Everything Goats' to get members' ideas for names.

 

[elevan]

She still needs a second shot 3-4 weeks after the first. The prekidding shot just allows you to be able to give the first shot a little later.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Good to know Emily

So we settled on names:

Ol' Blue Eyes (Frankie)

Brenna (Brenna means: little drop of water; raven or black-haired

Johnny

Squire

Precious Egidia (Egidia means: small goat)

 

[MrsDieselEngineer]

Great names!

 

[RareBreedFancier]

Oh my! Precious Egidia is quite possibly the most gorgeous critter on the planet!

They are all lovely but she is just WOW!!!

 

[Queen Mum]

They are so Tiny! But so cute!

 

[Ms. Research]

What Sweet New Herd Members!

Wishing you all the luck with them. Can't wait to you let us know when they are going to make LITTLE kids.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

LOL Egidia is adorable So much so, that even my Dad wants her to become a house goat

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Trying to plan out who will be bred to who in 2012... this deserves careful consideration.

Apparently Olivia & Sheba decided to join up and get elective surgeries... Discovered this morning that Olivia decided to split her teat on her left side, and Sheba decided to have a second teat added to her left side Oh brother. Well at least in Sheba's case, it is a completely seperate teat and more than likely will be functional. But Olivia's split teat... grr... why why why why why?!?!?!?! Not that either of them would be able to produce anything other than grades anyways, but when they were littles they showed no signs of these abnormalities! It is just not fair.

Initial thoughts are:

Onyx + HighNote
Pearl + HighNote
Brenna + HighNote

Sheba + Frankie
Olivia + Frankie(but maybe HighNote for experiment in colors)