NH Homesteader's first kidding season!

[NH Homesteader]

Well, I meant to start this thread before the first babies were born but.... That didn't happen!

I'll post the story tomorrow but we have a buckling and a doeling, the first kids born on the farm to Patty! Both are clean, dry, nursing and snuggling with mom!

 

[NH Homesteader]

 

[NH Homesteader]

Buck/doe twins for Lilly! The doe is ADORABLE!

DD and I got to watch!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Does that mean all of them?

I'm sure that's EXACTLY what that means!!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Uh it's kind of addictive, having goat babies. I feel like I'm finally officially a goat farmer! Lol it's been 3 years in the making and my brain is going 90mph like... OK FEM said this, and SBC said this.... My internet friends, lol, thank goodness for farm girls! (and boys)

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Do they tend to cycle together in a herd or did I just have weird luck with the twins Peppermint and Patty)?

In answer to that question - yes!

I once had 6 or 7 does deliver within a couple hours of each other during a storm that flooded half of my barn. I had stuck one of the does in the feed room because I ran out of kidding pens. That poor doe was standing in 4 inches of water and about to deliver a baby while standing up. Baby woulda landed in the water if I wouldn't have caught her! I was literally jumping from one pen to the other delivering babies! THE. MOST. STRESSFUL day I ever had in all the years I've been raising goats! But, what a fun memory, lol!

 

[sumi]

I'm with you on the placenta bit It is wonderful when kids can get that kind of education Mine witnessed a pig giving birth a few years ago. Did not look terribly impressed about the whole thing, until the next morning, when one of my egg customers, a very prim and proper Scottish born university professor dropped in. DS ran out and told him "Andrew, Andrew! The piglets came out of Pandora's a-s-s!!!" The poor man stopped in his tracks and looked at me with such curious expression on his face, I didn't know if I should laugh or apologise!

 

[NH Homesteader]

They really are. I have diva breeds though too. Nigerians and alpines are not the mellow breeds (well Nigerians aren't as high strung but they have a superiority complex!)

My golden Guernsey though.... She may well be much calmer. That's what I hear anyway. Think I'm gonna fall in love!

The babies are hysterical, too cute!!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Oh gosh I bet! I'm kind of considering separating Mimosa in case she tries to steal everyone's babies lol!

Ah sleep... If the human munchkin will let me, yes, I will sleep!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

YAY! Yep - waiting on pics!!

I want babies too!