Friday, February 12, 2010

Boer Goat Babies!!

Wednesday night around 12:00 am one of my brothers went to the goat pen to feed the dogs, he checked on the goats while he was out there. He saw that one of the boer goats was in labor, so he brought her back. We were going every so often and checking on her in the stalls, then I went out and looked at her and she was pushing. The goat pushed for a little while, then the sack broke, we looked at the time and waited for a few miniutes, then we decided to go in. My sister tried to pull the stuck kid out, but could not do it, so Mom went in and got the legs out, then went back in and got the head, and told my sister to pull her arm while she had the head in her hand. When she pulled the kid out the doe was laid out and her eyes were bugging out, so we sat her up, and she is fine now. She was licking off the first kid, and my brother looked back and saw a bubble, then she pushed and out came the second kid. He was breech and suffocating. The first kid is 3 1/2 pounds and the second kid is 2 1/2.
The first kid:
The second kid:
The first kid on the right, the second kid on the left:

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