03/21/07, 09:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Middle of nowhere along the Rim, Arizona
Posts: 3,096
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Lightning is doing a lot better this evening -- she trotted across the pen to her hay at chow time, so she's feeling okay. She keeps bleating and bleating for hours on end, though -- she's a first freshener but I guess her hormones are telling her that she should have babies around SOMEWHERE. It's a 'where's my babies' type call. Wish I had an orphan or something for her, but I don't ...
And despite being a bit sore from the surgery she's an absolute angel to milk. She hasn't kicked once. I'd worked with her since she was a baby for milk-stand manners ... dangit! (She's already drying up, but I'm milking her out.)
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Originally Posted by hoofinitnorth
Will you plan for C sections for the other related goats bred to the same buck?
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I'm hoping it isn't something the buck is throwing. He's a VERY tiny buck even for a nigerian -- he's almost a year old and probably doesn't weigh more than 35 pounds. I don't think he's going to get much bigger -- his mom was VERY tiny and his father was pretty small too. He was an itty bitty kid, too. So if he's throwing oversize babies, it's not something that he's showing any traits for himself!
OTOH, yes, I'll be watching my other two does who are bred to this buck very closely. (Unfortunate, they're Lightning's mother and littermate, so more difficult kiddings tell me nothing about Junior's genetics.)
Leva
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