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11/08/13, 02:52 PM
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Hazel's Baby (GRAPHIC birth photos) (Help please?)
I'm sure most people looking at this know who Hazel is. Also, I'm guessing most people on the forum LIKE to click on things that say graphic... only because there are pictures! LOL, here's some details.
Hazel had one little tri-color buckling at 12:00 p.m today.  Day 157 and she is a Nigerian Dwarf. Very cute little baby... who we are thinking of names for! I don't now what's so special about him, either his coloring, the fact we got to watch him be born, or his little under bite that is so cute... but I'm already attached to him! Name ideas?
Here's the birth pictures and some dried off baby pictures. I love him so. I just wish he was a girl! I must've checked him a thousand times to make sure there was only one hole, lol, and to make sure those testis weren't a little udder somehow.  Anyway,  , let's get to the pics!
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11/08/13, 02:59 PM
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Can't wait to see him all cleaned up. He's a cutie even through the gunk! Congrats to you and Hazel.
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11/08/13, 03:12 PM
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Uploading right now. Thanks!
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11/08/13, 03:12 PM
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Dried baby pics...
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11/08/13, 03:52 PM
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If he has an underbite, he should be wethered, and make sure he is nursing okay. He is pretty dang cute though, and FLASHY!
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11/08/13, 04:01 PM
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Little boys are so sweet!!! I have had goats for 22 years and sold only three in that time frame. If he isn't buck qulility, band him and he'll be your best buddy for life. I have had several over the years and most of them lived to be 12,14,15, 16 years old and my current three wether's, three brothers, will be 11 next March. I have also had many girls born over the years but, they just don't have that sweet nature that all my wethers have had. My three boys will have to have a hug and a kiss this evening and then they will be happy and just walk away over to eat their hay. They will not move until they get a kiss on top of their head. Period. Its like if she don't kiss us we don't move..Thats every day, 365 days a year!!!
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11/08/13, 04:05 PM
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We will wether him, that's the plan. He is also nursing fine. It's just a tiny tiny underbite and I think it might actually resolve itself.
I LOVE him so much! I have never really liked wethers because all of our wether sheep were a pain in the you know what. They were TERRIBLE. I'm sure the goaties will be better than that though.
Don't know what to name him still! Ideas we have had are Lionel, John, Jim, Finnick, Lincoln, and Wendell.
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11/08/13, 04:09 PM
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What a little doll! So glad you get to keep him...I have to tell you, he really does look like an Ernest to me. Sorry...
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11/08/13, 04:34 PM
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Looks like a Finn to me.
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11/08/13, 04:41 PM
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Thanks for sharing -- great pics! Cute, cute little goatie face
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11/08/13, 05:26 PM
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Hazel is shaking, only her back end. I gave her warm molasses water and willow branches. What else can I do? I bounced her and don't feel a baby. Not pushing or anything.
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11/08/13, 05:39 PM
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Continue the warm molasses water and she should be fine. I think he looks like a Willy or Bubba to me
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11/08/13, 05:41 PM
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Calcium drench for Hazel. What you describe *could* be the start of milk fever. Most feed stores carry CMPK, comes in a large (Cow-sized) tube. I've used this successfully on does starting milk fever. What's her temp?
Little guy is sure a doll-baby!
Good jobg on the birthing pics!
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11/08/13, 05:57 PM
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I have CMPK in a bottle, it's for cattle. How much? I gave her some tums but she didn't eat them. I don't think it's milk fever because the shaking has gone down and she is eating and drinking just fine.
Little guy just nursed for a LONG time and finished with a cute little milk mouth.
Thanks nehi!
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11/08/13, 06:07 PM
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I'd give her about 30cc of the CMP, sub q.
He's a beaut, all right!
Thanks for the pics.
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11/08/13, 06:08 PM
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Oh my word, he is completely adorable! Wonderful colors!
I have to say I also see him being a Finn, or Flynn...after Flynn Rider from Tangled!
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11/08/13, 06:13 PM
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Wait so they can't take it orally? I think my stuff is oral...
Thanks! I think Finn might be his name...
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11/08/13, 06:15 PM
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Okay Finn is out of the question, no one else likes it, lol
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11/08/13, 06:19 PM
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Oh, if it's oral, then give orally! I thought you were talking about the injectable kind in the pint-size bottle.
No, no, don't inject that. You'll have to read the label or ask Nehimama about that. I don't use the oral.
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11/08/13, 06:19 PM
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He sure is a big boy. Cutie too. I would give oral cmpk. It wont hurt her. It does sound like the very beginning of milk fever.
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