Sweetened's 2015 Kidding thread (Last arrival 2/23)

[Southern by choice]

Yay! I like her color too!

 

[catdiva6]

Congrats on your beautiful babies! I am sure you are enjoying them all! I am still waiting....rather impatiently for mine.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Congrats! So happy for an easy delivery!

 

[Sweetened]

Heres virgil, id say hes doing well. Hes the only one thats not a diva about the bottle. Edith has bad aim and ethel required a finger in the mouth before the nipple will go in and once she unlatches you habe to repeat, with her fighting the entire time.

 

[Southern by choice]

 

[madcow]

OMG, Virgil is so sweet! He seems like a real fighter there and nursing well. You are really getting some experience with having to go in and assisting with difficult births. Congrats on all the new cuties!

 

[Hens and Roos]

glad to hear they are doing good!!

 

[Sweetened]

Question: how do you guys merge dam raised kids into the herd? The babies keep escaping back out with their moms when i seperate them. Nothing has happened to the babies, they stick close to their moms, but I worry about it a little. They are all over a week old now.

I want to keep moms out at night and move the babies into the kennel for the night and just be able to release them for the day after morning milkings.

 

[Hens and Roos]

 

[Southern by choice]

Not sure what the question is... do you mean at night... you want to separate them so moms give milk in the am?

If so then you will need a kennel or stall that they can't get through or climb over.