And Yet Another Busy Weekend

Last weekend I had people out looking at goats and during this Calamity Jane decided to go into labor.  I had looked at her that morning and thought that she sure looked close.  Anyways Shannon and her daughter got to watch twins being born and were excited about watching them take their first steps.

This weekend I was busy delivering some babies to Beaver Dam and having people to the house to look at or to pick up their goats.  My friend Patty was there to get her 2 that she is going to bottle raise when Ringo decided to kid so she got to watch that and was thrilled about it.  Luckily my goats are not bothered by an audience or by me helping to pull the babies out and clean them off for them.  I guess when I retire I can apply to be a midwife! ha

Busy weekend

Saturday morning we were having more monsoon floods.  I postponed feeding the animals until it had slacked off a little since none of my goats will come out of the barn during inclement weather.  While I was feeding, I heard the distinct sound of a goat in labor.  I found Nike in the process of kidding so I grabbed a towel and helped dry off the baby.  She had another one and after drying her, I took them to a stall in the barn.  They were in a pen under the shed but I like babies to start out in the barn for a few weeks under a heat lamp.  The rest of the afternoon was spent watching it rain.  I did my usual bedtime check at the barn and discovered that I had a set of triplets born in the next stall!  They are the cutest babies I think I have ever seen and they look like calico cats.

Sunday morning was cold and gloomy.  While I was feeding I noticed another goat in labor so I stayed with her until lunchtime when she finally had 2 blue eyed girls!  Boy are they cute.  One looks just like her father Sky did when he was little.  The other one is an unusual silver/chocolate/black.  Their mother happens to be named Sunday because that was when she was born.  How ironic that she kidded on Sunday.