()relics
Overrun with beasties
So yesterday one of my best does kidded. She had waited almost 2 weeks beyond when I thought she was due. She had twins, 2 boys, 1 not fully delevloped,dead, and the other wrapped in the remains of his brother, he died too shortly after he hit the ground....... Hey it happens Nothing you can do about it...... BUT now I'm left with a very good doe always very milk heavy with no kid/kids and I'm not the "go out to the barn and milk the goat" kind of a person...That would be the lost 2 part.....WHAT to do?
I called Kim at Roll Farms. She had this beautiful fullblood black headed doeling that was just born. I talked her into selling her to me. So yesterday at 3 in the afternoon in the middle of a snow storm I jumped in my truck and headed towards the Roll's. Long and short I stole, I mean bought, the doeling and made it home. Hence the gained 1 part....But now the tough part.
.....Now to sucessfully graft her onto my very fresh, very heavy, and very very calm doe...Because I'm not the " feed the cute little goat from a bottle" kind of person either....Fortunately Kim sent me home with a gallon of frozen goat milk and 2 bottles of milk ready to be fed because this little doeling thinks she is a human and doesn't seem to like the idea of nursing from a farm animal....This will change....The doe is completely fine with the situation...She stood still in the middle of the pen and chewed her cud while the kid and I wrestled around in the straw. I ended up feeding the kid from a bottle while she stood next to the doe. The doe smelled the kid and even licked her tail, all the while I, with my third hand, stripped milk from her....1 step at a time....I will post a picture after the bottles stop....I wouldn't hold your breath.
I called Kim at Roll Farms. She had this beautiful fullblood black headed doeling that was just born. I talked her into selling her to me. So yesterday at 3 in the afternoon in the middle of a snow storm I jumped in my truck and headed towards the Roll's. Long and short I stole, I mean bought, the doeling and made it home. Hence the gained 1 part....But now the tough part.
.....Now to sucessfully graft her onto my very fresh, very heavy, and very very calm doe...Because I'm not the " feed the cute little goat from a bottle" kind of person either....Fortunately Kim sent me home with a gallon of frozen goat milk and 2 bottles of milk ready to be fed because this little doeling thinks she is a human and doesn't seem to like the idea of nursing from a farm animal....This will change....The doe is completely fine with the situation...She stood still in the middle of the pen and chewed her cud while the kid and I wrestled around in the straw. I ended up feeding the kid from a bottle while she stood next to the doe. The doe smelled the kid and even licked her tail, all the while I, with my third hand, stripped milk from her....1 step at a time....I will post a picture after the bottles stop....I wouldn't hold your breath.