At some point overnight, Flicker decided to reject the grey and white doeling, even with temptation of grain present in the morning. I got a good amount of milk replacer in the little girl and put her back out but no luck throughout most of the morning with mom or the replacer so kept her in most of the time due to rain.
Finally after washing her up, and making sure she was dry, Flicker all of a sudden let her nurse a little bit. But then back to rejection and favoring the multi girl.
The little gal understandably isn't really interested in the milk replacer and wants to nurse anything moving.
So back out to the field at near midnight with her but no luck finding the multi girl who was hidden somewhere really really well. Back to the shed to get grain and finally, with all the sheep and other goats huddled around the fence for grain, she had an opportunity to nurse mom who was pigging out and didn't seem to mind. Hopefully she got enough to last until morning. We'll let her be out there with everyone unless there is a rain or she starts to get noisy.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Celebration
After fireworks and putting the boys down for the night, went out to check Flicker and found that she had a new multi-colored kid at her side. Looked closer and saw a grey and white kid lying about 6-8 feet away down the hill so trekked out to see what was going on. Happily, it was doing just fine, lying on a nice warm mostly buried rock. And...it's a GIRL! Of course I just had to know the sex of the multi; it's a GIRL, too! Too bad we're out of fireworks. Birth time estimated at 10 pm EST. Grey one looks like her sire, Jack. Multi looks just like her dam.
Gave them some goat drench which really got them screaming for mom. Made sure she realized they were both hers. She was actively cleaning both. Saw the grey one nurse and the multi may have nursed. Will be checking on them frequently. Mom still looks slightly plump but has expelled the afterbirth.
I'm sure the coyotes were intently listening to all the commotion as Cocoa was hollering for her little boy the whole time...he prefers to run with the sheep. So I had to call the sheep up so she'd know her little guy was present and accounted for. But then had to run them off so they'd stay away from the new gals and give them some space.
Jack is the perfect gentleman with the little ones so far.
Gave them some goat drench which really got them screaming for mom. Made sure she realized they were both hers. She was actively cleaning both. Saw the grey one nurse and the multi may have nursed. Will be checking on them frequently. Mom still looks slightly plump but has expelled the afterbirth.
I'm sure the coyotes were intently listening to all the commotion as Cocoa was hollering for her little boy the whole time...he prefers to run with the sheep. So I had to call the sheep up so she'd know her little guy was present and accounted for. But then had to run them off so they'd stay away from the new gals and give them some space.
Jack is the perfect gentleman with the little ones so far.
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