There is a good conclusion to earlier today’s post…no, I didn’t stumble upon and extra $1000 to spend on a luxury goat kid shed. but after watching Baby Doll push for awhile, I decided something was wrong, maybe kids were presented wrong, maybe she was pushing but not dilated (happened to Nutmeg last year). I called Jeremy and made him come out and hold her for me. I’ve done this by myself, but Baby Doll is the biggest goat I have (sanaan/alpine), and I know I can’t hold her frot still while I’m reaching inside her…so, Jeremy graciously obliged.
Turns out, the feet were right there, and then there was a head. The question then was, do those two feet belong to the same goat. I haven’t had this problem yet, knock o wood, but I’ve read stories…there is always a horror story to bring to mind when exhausted and stressed, right?  Anyway, I reached, and reached, and reached, they were seriously the legs that never ended! So I determined she must have a monstrous buck kid in there! So, I just had to pull, and pull, and pull. Now let me just say, I really dislike pulling kids, it creeps me and worries me I’m gonna pull some poor doe’s uterus right out of her…again with the horror stories (I need to find some better reading material!). So, I pulled some more, and finally a GIANT DOE KID came sliding out! Seriously, I was really excited. Of course, I did Baby Doll the diservice of going back in as I figured there had to be another one in there, she is so big. Nope. Nada. Just one. One big one. This is actually my third, large, single doe kid of the season. I wouldn’t complain except I keep getting these kids with big ole heads that get stuck, and then I have to pull. I think this is the fourth or fifth time I’ve had a stuck head in the last week.
Anyway. She is big, and pretty, and not at all white. ‘Geez, Jilli, what did you expect out of a white doe and a white buck??’ Yeah. She is three colors! Four if you count her seriously pink nose. She doesn’t have a name yet. It’s a “C” year…except for a leap day baby (what else do you name a baby born on Leap Day?), and maybe a tiny. Afterthought girl with a spot on her spine. …
I tried to get a couple good pictures of this morn’s cuteness, but baby goats are incredibly hard to photograph!

Oh my. I can’t keep track! I mean, I am, I have everything written in a notebook, but that is my salvation right now! I used a white LaMancha buck on everyone last year, so lots of white babies running around, and similar colorings on the non white ones. 19 on the ground! 19! Crazy. Plus a bum lamb I took from Laura (what was I thinking?). I did lose two Tuesday morn, I got outside 10 min to late and they were too chilled, mind you, 2 does kidding at the same time…so I was scrambling to find them in the dark at 5am.
The does outnumber bucks by one at the moment.
I have a doe who I keep thinking is going to pop any moment…for the last 2 days!
I have one doe who may not recover, I’m not sure why she is so weak, even called the vet out, and he wasn’t too positive. She has poor body conditioning. She eats the same as everyone else. I don’t know. And the saddening part is I only have so much energy to go around, so while I’m babying her, there is only so much I can do. I am still milking here, I think this weekend they’ll be headed to the barn, and those kids are eating 3x a day, and fighting using the lambar (bucket with nipples), so I am spending an exhorbitant amount of time getting them to eat.
And you know, keeping us fed, and laundry, and playing and chasing Newton…long week. Longer still to come.
I’m thiinking raising plants is the better way to go! Winters off, and a lot less bodily fluids to mess with!