At last first kid arrived about an hour ago. Not managed to find milk bar yet. How long before other kids arrive if there are any? She seems to push occasionally but nothing happening and she is more interested in eating or cleaning baby.
If there isn't anymore within the hour I would think you have had a single - is she a first kidder? then more likely to be one only. BUT kid needs to find milkbar SOON. If not hold it's head and gently push into the right direction. If she only has one you are most likely to have to ease out her other side, as kid will only use one side... I would by now milk some colostrum out of the nanny and try and get some down the kid by bottle. If the kid takes the first drink from the bottle it normally doesn't stop them to suckle from mum,but it makes it a ot easier to put them onto the bottle on day4 after disbudding.
If she is a first kidder she will also very likely find it quite strange that there is someone trying to suckle her udder, so you may have to hold the nanny still while the kid gets on for the first few times.
The occasional pushing is probably the afterbirth? If you press (quite hard but not painfully so) your hand into her tummy just before the udder, you can feel any more kid(s) inside her
BOY or GIRL?
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