More kid stuff

In this kid pile the two with denim coats are Yentl's boys.

 Brenda's girls have revealed their names to me now. The brown one above is Betsy. The white one is Apricot.

Need to get photos of Avalon's daughters. Will post later.

Now we are just waiting on Brigette. Hopefully she'll have hers today. Then no one is due until next Saturday. That would be Rosie - but she will probably be early too.

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Continuing kidding stories

Wednesday evening - Waiting around for Molly to kid. Molly is my bottle baby from two years ago, so I was nervous.

Glenn and Nancy were in attendance for Molly's delivery. At 8pm she had two lovely does born with just a little help.

 Meet Tasha (after the author Tasha Tudor) and

her sister Tabitha.

Thursday morning Molly's twin sister Brenda gives birth to two more does. Their sire is Nickolaus a nubian. The sire of all the other kids so far is Socrates the French Alpine. The people hauling manure away for Little Raven Farms helped with this delivery. These two girls have not revealed their names to me yet.

Yentl had twin bucks born Thursday evening during chore time and Avalon just had twin does at 2:15 this afternoon. More photos and stories later.

Are you Happy Doing What you Do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P0AKHIG5Iaw

And now there are nine!

The kids are popping out here about every 12 hours, mostly mid morning and just before dark.
Easter Sunday 7:30 pm Strawberry had twins - a buck and a doe named Beatrix

Monday morning 7:00 am - Flower had been in labor a long time. I hadn't check frequently enough. She was worn out and the first kid a buck was stuck inside her - dead. But after pulling him out, here came a little doe (now known as Marigold). She was a bit cold so I brought her inside to warm up. Flower's legs had muscle fatigue and she had trouble standing. But now both are fine.

I'm now checking on the girls every 4-5 hours or more at night and every couple hours during the day. All of these does are first time mom's and all except Strawberry have had some trouble with the first kid.

Wed 9:00 am - DeJa (the human) is helping me with chores. She draws the lucky straw today as Marika goes into labor while she is still here. Marika delivers to bucks.

To be continued.... need to go check on Yentl.

It's getting busy....

No time to post the stories but here are some photos.

 The one on the left is the girl. Her name is Beatrice , after the author Beatrix Potter who wrote the Tales of Peter Rabbit. We don't name the boys.

 This little one was born this morning - tough birth. Mother is Flower and is needing to rest. Little one was cold, but getting stronger. I think her name is Marigold.

Happy Easter!

It appears that Strawberry is going to have her kids today.

And Yentl is only a couple days off as well.