The streak continues!

Massey took her turn in the kidding pen yesterday. As you can see, no one was more eager than Massey to get those babies out. 

Aside from her belly, Massey is a big girl in general. For the last two weeks of her pregnancy she does the 'dog sits' and looks generally miserable. 

She carried on her streak of having lots of girls! 13 for 13 over the years, that is unheard of! Triplet doelings again this year and they are gigantic. 10 lb, 10 lb and 8 lb. This is our baby carrying tote ( or neonatal care center as we wish to call it) and usually once the newborns stand they can barely peer over the top let alone tower over it. 

We provide the first feeding of colostrum within an hour of birth. Typically the kid will eat anywhere from 2-4 ounces for its first feeding. I fed 40oz in the first hour of life and another 24oz a couple hours later. Yes, 40, forty, 4-0. These guys are going to be beasts. 

It was a light weekend, only one doe kidded so the rest of our time was spent rearranging pens, moving babies, dehorning and feeding. Some of the oldest dam raised kids graduated to the main pen and are using all their energy tearing around the place at top speed. Some people use logs, pallets or ramps as 'toys' to entertain the goats. We gave ours a llama.