My Whining Paid Off! :)

[Tam319]

My Nubians are due to start kidding in the next week. I've been really stressing because I am planning to raise on CAE prevention and this is my first "go" at it. I've kidded out about 60 goats previous to this but all have been my meat girls who just "get 'er done". They push those kids out, have them licked off and up and sucking in 5 minutes flat. I have been really losing sleep over how I was going to catch these Nubian babies the second they were born.

To top it off my Nubians are penned behind the house but a fair jog away so I'd really have to hoof it over there. I have a 2 yo DS, am 5 months pregnant and run a dayhome with 3 kids under 3 yo during the week. Now try to factor in getting my waddly behind with a bunch of tots in tow out to the barn in time to catch the kids!!!

I've been crying the blues to my DH and Dad this week about how stressed I am over this situation and the logistics of it. Guess what they did tonight? They hauled a shelter/mini barn behind my house about 8 feet from my kitchen window. They put up two stalls in it (one for the next Mama to kid and a clean one for the babies) and lined it up so I can see what is happening right out my window. I don't even need a baby monitor b/c I can hear them plain as day. LOL I am truly a hillbilly with a goat barn directly outside my kitchen! HA! Better than TV! Dad said its my new "rec room addition" to my home. I figure it is close enough that when I see the kids a-coming I can haul ass outside and scoop em up in 2 seconds flat.

So it appears that all of my whining has paid off. I am so lucky to have such great help. Although, perhaps they were just taking my threats of moving the doe into our porch seriously

[CountryHaven]

That's terrific, you really are lucky to have such wonderful accomodations. One of my barns is only about twenty feet from the house but I can't see into it from the house, the other is over 100 feet away UGH, not horrible in nice weather, but a nasty little walk in sub degree temps in the middle of the night, not too mention tripping over every single possible cat, chicken, and goat in the process. I've been dreaming of a kidding set up right attached to my house garage, boy that would be HEAVEN.

[celadon]

I also had my goats next to my window so I could watch them. I enjoyed just watching them play. I opened the window I could talk to them and they would talk back. Plus I didnt have to go far to water and feed them. They are gone now so the outside dogs took there place. I sure do miss them.