Giselle just finished having her new Triplets around 2:45.
She had a buckling, then two doelings. I actually MISSED the first two when I went inside to do homework. I checked her before, she was having contractions but not licking or nesting too heavily, so I thought this evening. After I finished an online quiz, I went to check again - she had two out already. Apparently, she sprung on the opportunity for me to miss their births. There was a BIG buckling walking around mostly dry, a doeling laying down still damp, and she was digging a new bed. She had dug all her bedding away and so had her kids in the SAND underneath, so I had fun rubbing the sand off of them.
She popped 'em right out, no trouble whatsoever.
Firstborn is a big black and tan sundgau buckling paint, and he also, oddly enough, has a moonspot on his rear knee joint/thigh! I've never gotten spots from my miniatures before. The spot is grey, but will likely change to tan or something, I would imagine.
The second and thirdborn doelings are carbon copies of each other and their sire/grandsire (giselle was bred to her father). They are black with white frosting on their ears/nose and a white star.
All of the babies have nursed and are doing well. I'll be pulling the doelings from their dam to bottle raise on Tuesday. I'll be gone nearly all day on tuesday, and I won't be able to feed them 4x per day if I pull them now. My older kids will be ok, but new babies I like to stick to a 4x per day schedule. I pull doelings because most of the kids go as pets or are kept here - and I HATE kids I can't catch. Bucklings stay on their dam because the extras are for butcher.
Total number of goats on the farm: 25. Kid count so far: 1 french alpine buckling, 5 miniature bucklings, 4 miniature doelings. One more doe to go, either 6/11 or 6/17... and she's the biggest one so far.
No pictures yet because she had them in the barn and it's dark in there, can't take good ones with my phone.
