2 kids in same sac?

[edmonds]

The last of our 3 does kidded last night: 2 white bucklings. I put mother in barn pen about 8:30 pm because she was making little noises and laying kinda funny, but no discharge. Went back out at 11:00 pm and could hear little peeps coming from barn. Looked like they were fairly recent, still wet with some blood. Almost appears as if they were born at the same time. Are twins sometimes born in the same sac?

Here they are.

[fishhead]

Could that mean they are maternal twins?

[wintrrwolf]

true twins...

[farmmom]

Beautiful!! Identical twins - 1 egg, 2 sperm - will be in the same sack. Fraternal twins - 2 eggs, 2 sperm - will be in separate sacks.

[edmonds]

Identical twins are formed when 1 egg is fertilized by 1 sperm and the resulting zygote divides to form 2 embryos. Goats often have multiple births, but how frequent identical twins?

And is the tendency to have identical twins inherited? I ask because the mother appears to be an identical twin herself. I got her and her identical (except for coloration on the nose) sister 2 years ago. The sister kidded 2 doelings last week, but they are not identical (one is white, the other champagne).

[jill.costello]

Uh, is that a sheep? <poor sheltered me....is this my first glimps of "hair goats"??>

[edmonds]

Originally Posted by jill.costello

Uh, is that a sheep? <poor sheltered me....is this my first glimps of "hair goats"??>

Cashmere goats. They are starting to shed about now. We comb/brush them to recover their hair. Between their rumen, cashmere hair, and being PG, they were looking like barrels on legs. By summer they may look more like goats.

[farmmom]

Originally Posted by edmonds

Identical twins are formed when 1 egg is fertilized by 1 sperm and the resulting zygote divides to form 2 embryos. Goats often have multiple births, but how frequent identical twins? 1

I knew that! Why did I say the other way! I'm feeling really dumb about now!

[Minelson]

Congrats to you! !!!