More Baby Goats!

Monday was Violet’s turn. She was off by herself most of the day, so I reckoned her time was close. Between 4:30 and 5 p.m. she delivered twins.

They’re huge! Violet and Jessie had the same size baby bellies, but Jessie was carrying three small babies and Violet two big ones.

Violet’s little girl has had a slow start. Kids are normally born feet first. Either front feet in a “nosedive” position, or back feet in a breech position. This little girl tried to come out nose first. In that case it helps to gently reach in to find feet to pull out first. I found one, but not the other. Even so she delivered easily. However she had contracted tendons in her front feet. Our very first kid had this and at the time I thought the kid was deformed. I tried to splint it and took him to the vet. The vet explained that it was caused the way the kid was lying in the womb. He recommended leaving it alone and that exercise would work it out. Sure enough, he was right.

But besides being reluctant to get up and move around, this little girl was lethargic as well. Newborns do sleep a lot, but after about a day or so they are usually getting more energetic. I find that giving kids NutriDrench really helps in that case, so she got a dose. She’s doing a whole lot better today.

Violet’s twins got sweaters to wear too, except that unlike Jessie’s triplets, theirs almost fit them.

And these were some of my larger sweaters!

Now I have five days before Daisy’s due date! Then that will be it until April.