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And today I weighed Bri's littlest. She's 1 lbs, 10 oz.
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I had a tiny pygmy once that barely weighed about the same as your little one. Kids named her Thumbelina, lol.
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I was hearing resource guarding barks in the pen from Riker and he was shadowing a doe who was due Tuesday (Cookie was hopping around bludgeoning him and trying to get him to play like they do all night). So I caught her and the skittish doe and found very soft ligaments so into the stall they went much to Riker's disappointment. Hurry up thaw! Someone needs to hit the buck pen and the gate has a foot of frozen sleet blocking it with a ton of molesty beasties ready to interfere with shoveling.
So we may have a doe or two kidding tomorrow. I'm going to guess early but not super early morning depending.
So we may have a doe or two kidding tomorrow. I'm going to guess early but not super early morning depending.
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pics from today.
bad, skittish bottle baby. Into the stall you go (she's mad)
bad, skittish bottle baby. Into the stall you go (she's mad)
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7 am kidding from Heaven and Trixie in progress.
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Of course!! There's bad weather 
push them out! 
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I lied. Kidding party. They were not bred the same day, honest.
Heaven had quads, but one was recently dead on arrival. 2 live bucks and one doe. The dead buck could likely gave been saved if i had decided to intervene instead of seeing if she could do it. Pushing out big quads is a lot to ask out of a doe. They get tired and and puffy. She did it though.
Trixie had quads unassisted. All bucks, one dead when i came out.
Then Dot had a string of goo in the pen (Riker will not mess with Dot because she would ALWAYS enjoy an excuse to pound him or anyone into a pulp, Dot has been mean lately). She pushed out a doe and a buck unaasisted. Then i bounced her/picked up and dropped her belly into my hands and she still felt full of bones. Next push she seemed to start bleeding a fair bit but seemed undestressed and i felt a head in the canal so i went to go milk because some blood is okay. No kid when i was done. I went in and the kid felt unresponsive. Usually they kind of fight or at least twitch or suck. So i worked "with" Dot as she waddled away (waddle, waddle) and park her butt against a wall to prevent assistance the whole time to pull the head and not feet into the canal because something funky was going on. Dot is wide and flat enough to put a dinner plate on her rump and eat a meal on, so as she waddled the kid just popped out...eyes wide open like he'd been shot, and no one home, totally nonresponsive, then it stiffened hard as a rock and its pupils contracted to slits and it went into a seizure followed by death twitches, which I've never seen before, but it was yet another buck so i opted to think about that later. Presently I dont think that kid had anything going on in the attic and he did not get in any position at all for Dot to deliver him so she may have ripped herself up in some way. I hope she will be okay. That was a lot of blood and clots even before i helped. Dot was tired and while i was fighting with the weird kid i felt little feet so rather than making her fight i went back in for them and pulled another doe.
Oh and there's a ND on deck with soft ligs too.
So this morning we had 8 bucks, 2 does join the five nd in the kitchen and i just wanted to go to costco for fruit today...
Twins, man. Twins are great. Triplets are fine, but that ups the chance of tangles and malpositions. What ever happened to the concept of twins?
Heaven had quads, but one was recently dead on arrival. 2 live bucks and one doe. The dead buck could likely gave been saved if i had decided to intervene instead of seeing if she could do it. Pushing out big quads is a lot to ask out of a doe. They get tired and and puffy. She did it though.
Trixie had quads unassisted. All bucks, one dead when i came out.
Then Dot had a string of goo in the pen (Riker will not mess with Dot because she would ALWAYS enjoy an excuse to pound him or anyone into a pulp, Dot has been mean lately). She pushed out a doe and a buck unaasisted. Then i bounced her/picked up and dropped her belly into my hands and she still felt full of bones. Next push she seemed to start bleeding a fair bit but seemed undestressed and i felt a head in the canal so i went to go milk because some blood is okay. No kid when i was done. I went in and the kid felt unresponsive. Usually they kind of fight or at least twitch or suck. So i worked "with" Dot as she waddled away (waddle, waddle) and park her butt against a wall to prevent assistance the whole time to pull the head and not feet into the canal because something funky was going on. Dot is wide and flat enough to put a dinner plate on her rump and eat a meal on, so as she waddled the kid just popped out...eyes wide open like he'd been shot, and no one home, totally nonresponsive, then it stiffened hard as a rock and its pupils contracted to slits and it went into a seizure followed by death twitches, which I've never seen before, but it was yet another buck so i opted to think about that later. Presently I dont think that kid had anything going on in the attic and he did not get in any position at all for Dot to deliver him so she may have ripped herself up in some way. I hope she will be okay. That was a lot of blood and clots even before i helped. Dot was tired and while i was fighting with the weird kid i felt little feet so rather than making her fight i went back in for them and pulled another doe.
Oh and there's a ND on deck with soft ligs too.
So this morning we had 8 bucks, 2 does join the five nd in the kitchen and i just wanted to go to costco for fruit today...
Twins, man. Twins are great. Triplets are fine, but that ups the chance of tangles and malpositions. What ever happened to the concept of twins?
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Dang, you're catching he// this year! Hope it gets better!!
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Summer and Darla are the only ones left until March and Darla is in the kidding stall-since were not going on our due dates and are instead going all together and all assuming the rebreeds were really rebreeds and they just didn't want another date...so asterisk there.
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Darla kidded with what I'm pretty sure is a single buck. Nothing in the doorway and nothing bouncing after he vacated.
Summer is getting locked in a kidding stall until she goes. I'm done messing around.
Summer is getting locked in a kidding stall until she goes. I'm done messing around.
