Author Topic: Rowan's kids  (Read 4254 times)

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Rowan's kids
« on: April 19, 2012, 09:32:06 pm »
She just had her first kids, two pretty little does.  ;D








Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 09:34:22 pm »
 :love: how perfect are they.   Gorgeous

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 09:39:12 pm »
Congratulations! And after all that trouble with her not eating - two little girls! Perfect! :thumbsup:

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 09:41:59 pm »
Thank you both  ;D

Yes, she's horribly skinny now Anke, so the trick will be to build her up. But at least I've found some things she'll eat (chicken corn, flaked maize, ReadiGrass and she'll nibble at dairy nuts and sheep coarse mix).

Sandy

  • Guest
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 09:46:24 pm »
Funny how some animals go off food after giving birth!! Its a worry too, beautiful little kids too, thanks so much for shareing!

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 09:47:20 pm »
My GG had triplets (but very good eater till the end), but is now just skin and bone.... all you can do is give them as much food as they will eat and hope for the best.  :-\

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 09:57:49 pm »
same here, Gera's kids are all in new homes ... and she is soooo skinny.
But just won't eat more when offered, just decides she's had enough :/

Rowan's kids are just gorgeous Jaykay :love:
Little Blue

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 10:40:47 pm »
Congrats   :thumbsup:
they look quite big considering she went of her food, females as well :thumbsup:,
how is she eating now? did you give her a warm mix and did she eat it?
Looks like the light one is just like her mum, they're lovely.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2012, 12:02:01 am »
Fabulous  :thumbsup:  And two girls (so pretty too!) as well - you must be over the moon  :-*
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2012, 12:05:37 am »
Congratulations.

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2012, 07:34:19 am »
Lovely news Jaykay!!! congratulations  :thumbsup:
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

salopman

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2012, 12:04:02 pm »
Is it me or do kids soon look big ?? they look a pretty handful !!

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2012, 12:19:01 pm »
they are so very cute  :thumbsup:

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Rowan's kids
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2012, 12:44:08 pm »


It seems to me that goat kids have every bit of baby-animal-cuteness wrapped up in one small silky place  ;D

I made Rowan some warm mash and she hasn't touched it. I have, on the other hand, been to browse the hedgerow, armed with a pair of foot shears, and she's eaten all that - twice. So that seems to be the answer.

The two little ones play madly with each other for a minute and then flop down to sleep  :love: They're really not very big, just I am taking the photos at their eye level, and with a flash, so you can't see much background to compare them with. I have no doubt at all that they'll be a handful  :D :love:

 

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