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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 but gone and she has been screaming her head off every time we leave. I have dates for 4 of them, we will have to see!

This one is ff Faline. She is 3/4 boer, 1/4 nubian.
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Ff Spot, she is 100% boer
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2nd freshener Tornado, I love this girl. She is 100% boer
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Ff Stars. She is 50% boer 50% Kiko and is honestly kind of crazy, she can jump just about any fence and the only reason she can’t now is because she is too fat, even though she isn’t that large. I am thinking one.
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2nd freshener Dyna, she is Spot’s dam. 100% boer
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3rd freshener Maisie. I have her due date as the 27th, she is huge! 100% boer.
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4th freshener Lickaroo, probably my favorite goat on the planet, she was loving on me the whole time I was putting the kidding pens together. Her due date is the 29th, she went two days early last year. She is bred to a nubian buck, she is also a nubian.
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Bambi, 3rd freshener. 50% boer 50% nubian, her dam is Lickaroo and she is bred to the same nubian buck as Lickaroo.
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Everyone else is bred to our Kiko buck.
 

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You have some really nice looking goats. I think I recall you're in Idaho, right? Just curious why you bred to have them deliver right at the worst point of winter? I see snow on the ground in the pics. Are you concerned with it being too cold for the kids? I mean I imagine you've taken that into account. :fl all goes well and as planned. :caf:pop Waiting on kid pics! :clap
 

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You have some really nice looking goats. I think I recall you're in Idaho, right? Just curious why you bred to have them deliver right at the worst point of winter? I see snow on the ground in the pics. Are you concerned with it being too cold for the kids? I mean I imagine you've taken that into account. :fl all goes well and as planned. :caf:pop Waiting on kid pics! :clap



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 for 4-H and this will give them a little more time to make weight. It is definitely crazy with Christmas being tomorrow though!
 

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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!
 

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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 to dry off. Then she started to push again and ice formed on the bubble before the second kid came out. She had two healthy little doelings!
 

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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 kids? I am thinking not. What do we do? They act like they don’t want to nurse and they keep getting too cold. Should I try and milk her and give them a bottle? I have never had quads! Three doelings and one Buckling
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