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[Pasha838]

oh, very cool! are you going to do anything special with the goose eggs?

Now i only eat it, i boil it for my breakfast. In the february next eggs will be used for the incubator. I will have more geeses )))

 

[aoxa]

It was pretty quick all said and done. By the time I got the hair dryer and towels and all that, she was letting out some pretty awful cries. 2 hooves were just starting to stick out like they should. I pulled a little to help. Then I noticed the hind leg of the second baby right there too. So I pushed that back in and the first baby came fairly quick then. I went to work drying the first one and the second came out backwards real fast as I was working on the first one.

I dried them and set up a draft free area with a heat lamp in the barn. I checked on them every couple hours...warming ears and stuff. The temp dipped down below zero I think, but all was well until the sun came up. The sun was bright despite it being cold and the temp seem to drop a lot in the barn. Between the mid-morning check and the noon check, they really went downhill. My heart sank. I thought the boy was dead. When I picked him up to take him out of the pen, he made a slight gurgle noise. So I rushed both to the house and stuck them right into a warm bath. I held their noses out of the water until they came to life. Then took them out, dried them and put them in front of a heater. I had pop bottles and Pritchard nipples on hand. The girl ended up nursing first. The boy took awhile....took awhile for his neck and legs to act right. Then he started to suck a little. I started brining momma in and the girl took off on her right away. Took awhile on the boy. I milked colostrum out on my finger and put it in his mouth and forced whole cows milk down him. Then then took off on mom finally. They both are doing happy baby goat dances and I hope will be alright! Awesome to see them came back after such an ordeal. Like I said, the boy I feel should be dead. I can't believe it happened so quickly. The girl was chasing mom around just at the last check before I found them froze.

Way worse bitter cold coming! Lots to do today!!! It has warmed up today to be quite warm, so that is good!

Wow it's a good thing you were there to save them!!

They will be much easier to feed than those bunnies. You are a wonderful farmer

This has been the coldest/snowiest winter I ever remember...

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Wow! Great job saving them!

How are your cows doing in the cold? Around here, they move cows to warmer regions in the winter, then back up to the mountains for summer grazing.

 

[roostersandhens]

 

[3acres]

3acres,

Do you always help your does kid? I ask, because we've never needed to. We just head out there one day and there are bright, bouncy babies with their moms. We don't stay to help them kid, or even supervise it as sometimes that makes a new mom uneasy. We don't dry the kids either.
Don't take me wrong, I'm not trying to contradict, I would just like to know why you do it.

I've found that we don't have the time to help, and our does always kid just fine themselves.

I'm not sure how to answer this....lol. I guess if you have never had any problems come up, you would be wondering....

. I'll come back..lol.

 

[3acres]

As cold as it is in Missourri right now, probably a good idea to dry them when they come out or they'd freeze to death!!!! In California...totally different situation, I'd think.

about 40 below wind-chill out there right now here where I am....

 

[3acres]

Temperature is the MAIN difference, these are WINTER goatlets - I doubt they ever would have survived if mama gave birth to them somewhere out in the acreage alone.

We(Chicago suburbs) are headed into one of the harshest winters in ages - most of the country is too.

I wonder if the goatlets could wear little jackets - I mean like a towel or fleece wrap, strapped around them to help keep up their body heat.

3Acres, I'm sure I would have done something to help them -once I'd stop being hysterical and crying. You would sure be the one I'd call first in any emergency. Aren't you lucky you live far away?

I read awhile back that a thing a person could do is cut the sleeves off of an old sweater or the like and then cut leg holes out of it for baby goats....

. Momma and babies are in the warm basement right now....

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When I become rich, I'll buy a helicopter and came help ya at the drop of a hat when the call light comes on...lol. Just jokin around... because I may not be the one to call...I still am writing the book...

 

[3acres]

You are amazing. Worth your weight in gold, I'd say.

You silly...lol. Beautiful chicken photos! ...and those flowers are very cool! I was like, the movie Avatar was filmed at Fancychooklady's house....is she na'vi???....

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[3acres]

I agree!

You silly, too!....

Whenever I see people from Canada on here I think of a stand-up comedy deal Jim Carrey said on being from Canada and how all we from the US think is that it is cold up there 24/7 365....lol. He said he finally would just in and would say stuff like ---There was much work to be done, if we were ever going to survive the elements. I would bore a hole in the ice...to find food....then me and my good friend, Nantook, and I, would build an igloo....to protect ourselves....------- ...something like that...lol.

 

[3acres]

Wow it's a good thing you were there to save them!!

They will be much easier to feed than those bunnies. You are a wonderful farmer

This has been the coldest/snowiest winter I ever remember...

Thanks! ...just doing what needs done!....

. It'll be exciting for sure when your babies come! I bet you'll be ready! Mine were suppose to be August babies. That is when I put the buck in to have them. I figured the way he is, he got it done right away and I just left him in with them so he wouldn't be lonely. ...or at least have oct babies at the latest. Oh, well. These little babies sure warm these cold days!...

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