Quadruplets - First time kidding and have some ?s

Congratulations!! 4 and all girls makes you one lucky lady. They are all so adorable! Good luck with all your kids. Just love the pics!

they are SOOO cute!!
I'm still waiting on mine... so I am living vicariously through you!

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How beautiful! Glad they are all doing well!

(Are you having a girl as well? Maybe it's a girl year! hehe)

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According to the ultrasound...yes I am! LOL

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By the way, if you do decide to bottle your kids a bit (and I've had kids on the dam that I've supplemented with the bottle), please don't use replacer. I've heard nothing but horror stories from using that stuff. Best is goat milk, second best is whole cow's milk which is readily available at the local grocer.

Very cute tiny babies! I can't wait until my does start kidding!

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How wonderful that all the kids are doing so well! I LOVE the coloring on them, it looks like Mama really is dominant for that as they all have very nearly the same markings.

Congratulations on such a bonus! Our little NG gave us 1 buckling, but it was her first kidding and she's not quite a year old. He's healthy and we are content this time around with that, though I must admit to a moment of disappointment when I checked to see what he was! LOL!

What a great little doe mama you have

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Congratulations on those adorable little girls. Your doe sounds like a good mommy. I second what Laura says about supplementing the kids. Use whole cow's milk rather than replacer. I used the replacer the fiirst year I was in goats and it was awful - problems with scours and bloat, kids with weak immune systems and poor growth rates. The kids I've since supplemented with the cow's milk did just fine. You mentioned the umbilicle cords dried up on their own. I suggest dipping the cords of any new kids your does have in 7% iodine. An ounce of prevention is worth not having to deal with navel ill in your kids. Happy kidding and best wishes for you and your soon to arrive daughter.

Love the pics!

Dumb question here... Why pull the kid from the family pen? Would it work to milk mama, then bottle feed the kid and leave the kid with the others? When the kid gets a bit more strength from eating, would the kid possibly start nursing along with her sisters? Would mama possibly hurt the bottle fed kid if she is left in the pen? What is the reason for separating her? Sorry if this sounds dumb, I need to learn these things in case I get into that position one of these days.

My first choice would have been to tie mama and even hobble her if necessary to let the runt get some colostrum and milk. If the runt refuses to nurse, then milk mama and bottle feed the colostrum. Then continue milking mama to fed the kid. Am I wrong thinking this way?

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Hi Spinner. I wouldn't pull the kid from the family pen either, but I would supplement her with a bottle. I'd be hesitant to milk a doe who's already carrying three other babies. Once the kid had colostrum, I'd try to find another source of milk, so I could truly "supplement" the babies, rather than shifting already limited resources.

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congrats on your 4 little ones there and looks like they are doing great.
I wish I could have been able to get online before today to post a reply, but this is first day for posting threads for me and I am excited LOL
I just wanted to share a little story about a nanny that I have that gave us 4 kids We usually have triplets with our nannys,but this one had 4. I had to end up helping her by pulling the last 2 she was pretty tired.Never took babies away, they always seem to work it out, just kept an eye on them,making sure they were nursing well. She is naturally a big goat anyway and when she was pregnant WOW...looked like a water buffalo when she ran what a :1pig: she was and still is One of the babies went to Heaven day after and about a month or so later the lil boy left us. She now has 2 little doelings and they are taking after their mom... :1pig: 's too LOL Sometimes i find them up on where i keep hay, digging at bags of feed, oh my like they are starving...
Anyway, I just wanted to wish you luck with all of them and I hope it is better experience than with my 4. Keep us posted on progress
Take care and God Bless. P.S. I have had to hold a nanny against a wall to milk her myself, it can be done, don't let a nanny win. If I can do it, anyone can