The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Dogwalker on May 31, 2012, 09:40:16 pm
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Mollie had a single girl at 5.30 this evening.
She was due last Sunday, thought she couldn't keep her legs crossed much longer.
She wanted to come in from the field when I came home at 1.30 and I spent the afternoon poping in and out to check on her. At 5.oo I walked over to see the new piglets and try to fuss them while they were eating.
As I came back to the yard heard loud bleats and shouts from the goat house and found Mollie straining hard with a fairly blue kid head and one front leg out, the other leg was back and stuck. Good job I came back when I did. Sucessfully delivered a big female kid, sucking well and looking good this evening. And Mollie cleared her supper bucket as usual.
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Aaaawwww!
Perfect! :thumbsup:
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Very sweet :love:.
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wow that looks a really big kid! Well done to Mollie and you :thumbsup:
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Well done to both of you. :thumbsup:
Richard
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That IS a big kid! not surprised she was yelling!
Congrats, worth the wait, esp for a girlie goat ;D
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Wow , she's enormous, Poor Molly. Well done for getting that one out with those legs , can I suggest raising your fences to double height now to keep her contained.
Brilliant news.
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Excellent :thumbsup: She's a very big and beatuiful kid ;D
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They both look really well. :thumbsup:
Sally
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Super, super kid!!! really lovely and congratulations to Molly :-))) :goat: :bouquet: :trophy:
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And a massive udder too... start easing her out now!
Have you weighed the kid?
Congratulations anyway.
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She weighed in at 4.7kg, nearly as big as the two week old triplets.
My nannies are quite small, makes the kids look big.
I think it's the gaps under the fence that will be a problem,one of the triplets was playing with the lambs next door this afternoon.
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Congratulations to you and Mollie. Wow, that is a prize-winning girl she has there!
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Shes is a big girl :thumbsup:
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Mollie's teats are so big I can't fit my hand round without squeezing. I'm milking her and feeding back a bottle to the kid and some extra to top up the triplets, their Mum's so thin she needs a bit of help keeping up with demand.
I think Mollie may be the champion milker once she gets going, a litre morning and evening and no where near empty just soft enough to give the kid a chance to get hold.
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That is one big kid. Sounds like you've got a good milker on your hands.
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This morning she wouldn't settle on the milking stand so I picked up her kid and put it in a packing crate infront of the stand, why was she still calling. I'd got the wrong kid, hers and one of the triplets are nearly identical, all white no patches or anything to distinquish them.
I milked enough to ease her udder and put her back in her pen, An hour later putting them out to the field noticed a little blood on her leg and found two grazes on the teat where she'd stood on it. Sprayed with terramycin blue spray and luckily not causing a problem when I milked her this evening.
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At least she knows which one is hers. ;D
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Different coloured collars for ID will save the guesswork :innocent: