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first baby long ears arrived! (pics)
We've offically begun project *baby watch* (via barn cam, this year....LOVE IT) started setting the alarm clock for every hour on the hour. Mon night/tue morning... it was 3:00 am, clock went off, up to check on Nora.. Nora is sound asleep...BUT.. Joon (little ff) is awake.. not pushing, not straining or looking back.. just standing.. but Joon is NEVER awake at night.. the only sign (other then being awake) is an occasional ear lift. On the third lift an older doe gets up and walks over to look at Joon's rear! It makes her turn to a better view for the camera.. just as a long string of goo starts to flow.. don't remember getting on boots or coats or grabbing the baby supplies. I do remember hitting the barn door. Joon was still standing.. just casually looking around.. with FEET beginning to show. Grabbed her, got her in the delivery room (yes, we have a seperate walled off delivery room, much warmer and less *help* from the other does LOL..... one push, out popped a little girl. Handed her off, felt for more...nope just a single. My daughter took the doeling inside, while I watched Joon. From alarm going off to baby in the house.. 7 minutes... NEVER want to cut it that close again! .... Joon started eating hay, I sat on the milk stand and watched... super easy kidding.. great outcome.. may they all be like this one....here are a few pics
(((first I'll post Joon's pics.. starting at baby.. somewhere, sometime when I wasn't looking I just recently realized that Joon had gone from solid colored to spotted over the past few months!! I'm hoping her little girl will do the same... she reminds me a lot of her mom)))
Mama Joon as a newborn
Joon and some of the other '07 kids..(this was in april) that's her on the right
Joon last week
and introducing..... joon's little girl...
One down 5 more to go this week....
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01/16/08, 09:55 AM
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Oh my goodness! She is the sweetest little thing! Can't wait for the babies to get here.
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01/16/08, 09:56 AM
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Nice looking does! At first I thought the first 2 pictures were of the doeling then I looked and said they are way to close to be dam and dauther!
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01/16/08, 09:56 AM
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Glad to see you get off to a good start !!! You'll be bleary eyed for the next two or three weeks now.
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01/16/08, 10:39 AM
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good looking does and Joon done good! That baby is too precious
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01/16/08, 10:41 AM
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What a beauty!=)
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01/16/08, 10:47 AM
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Oh, she's gorgeous! Those are some nice looking does you have there.
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aawww 
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All the pics are wonderful! The new baby is soooo cute!!!!!!!!! Congrats to you!!!
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01/16/08, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by HazyDay
Nice looking does! At first I thought the first 2 pictures were of the doeling then I looked and said they are way to close to be dam and dauther!
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Alex, are you wondering how old Joon is? She's young, she'll turn a year old, next week. I always breed my does to kid around their first birthday. I however RARELY milk the young moms.... I breed them to make sure they can be bred and to see how well they carry kids. I get to see what their udders look like. How well they kid.... then unless they happen to be a really BIG yearling.. I simply dry them up.. never touch their udders. (I have plenty of colostrum & milk from other does) The yearlings get to spend the next year...well... being kids again.. they grow off so well during that time (I do milk them all as 2nd ff). They're happy, I'm happy (and know if I want to keep them or sell them) I get kids, which makes other people (lots of times...people on here LOL) happy too.. we all win hehehee. I know my way doesn't work for everyone.. but it works well for us. (the does ae kept comfortable with preperation H & banamine for a couple days)
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01/16/08, 11:29 AM
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No I mean't the first picture looked so much like the side view of her I couldn't get how you got two goats that look the same! Then I seen it was the same doe.
So the does never get milked and dry up after kidding? I guess that is a good way to do it. Atleast they do make a kid and pay for themsevles for the year!
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Very, very cute!
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01/16/08, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by HazyDay
No I mean't the first picture looked so much like the side view of her I couldn't get how you got two goats that look the same! Then I seen it was the same doe.
So the does never get milked and dry up after kidding? I guess that is a good way to do it. Atleast they do make a kid and pay for themsevles for the year!
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Okay... I got it.. yea, the first two pics were Joon, on her first day.. last Jan..
Yeppers, the smaller yearlings just kid (which like you noted, allows them to pay for themselves) and then they have the luxury of going right back to being kids, eating, playing, eating, growing, maturing... (along with their other ff dried up, friends) I have 3 that I'm for sure drying right up.. one doe is big enough and has a really nice large udder.. I *might* decide to milk her. Will wait until she kids and decide then.
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01/16/08, 12:41 PM
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Ohhh myyyy, too cute!!!!!! 
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01/16/08, 02:17 PM
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Too cute!
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01/16/08, 03:18 PM
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Congrats on the baby! Ya'll have done well, and she is a cutie!
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01/16/08, 03:58 PM
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what a honey!!!!!!
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01/16/08, 06:21 PM
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Joon is a beauty, and that little "goat puppy" (lol) is just adorable!! Congrats!
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01/16/08, 07:23 PM
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Oh she is so cute!! Great pictures
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