My goodness! We had a bit of a surprise this morning… Well, TWO surprises, actually.
The cold front that blew in yesterday brought us some harsh wind and sub-freezing temperatures last night. When we turned in, the temperature was 29 degrees, with a wind chill in the low twenties. Yikes! Not exactly what are used to in our neck of the woods. Would you believe it was 80 a couple of days ago? I had shorts on; washing the dogs on Sunday afternoon!
Winter is the season for livestock to be born, and a strong front will often trigger labor and birth.
As I write this, I realize that I am very much amiss in not having introduced beautiful Leah to you before now! In October, we had an opportunity to purchase a lovely Nubian dairy goat with excellent bloodlines. She has quite a personality, is a bit on the wild side when compared to the spoiled girls already here, and has a voice that carries over an impressive distance. She is affectionately known as the Blue Goose, as well as Babe the Big Blue Ox. The latter, in regard to her great size of about 150 pounds.
Leah came to us with the hope that she was already bred, but we did not know what to expect for a due date. So, she became a part of our Sugarplum herd, and we looked forward hopefully to youngsters in January or February.
Now, the tricky thing about some goats is that you can’t always tell when they are pregnant, and you sometimes don’t know until the last day or so when they are ready for labor. So, without a whole lot of warning, I went out to feed this morning and was pretty shocked to see that Leah’s udder was QUITE FULL.
(I should mention here that “quite full” in this case is pretty impressive, since those bloodlines I mentioned had Leah’s mother producing a gallon of milk a day.)
Oh my gosh!
Run and grab fresh hay and fill the shed!
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Run and grab some towels!
Where the heck is the camera?
Why does it have to be so stinking cold today?
Oh my gosh! Is that a foot?
She did a marvelous job, talking to me as she circled and pushed. And before I knew it, there was a brand new delivery of mostly legs and ears. Leah set to work cleaning and talking, and talking and cleaning. Just about the time she had Package Number One well on her way to being dry, more circling and talking brought Package Number Two, a tiny twin boy.
As beautifully as Leah does in talking and cleaning and humming and nuzzling, she will need a bit of encouragement in the department of feeding. At the moment, she is not so very inclined to stand still while the little ones eat. So, she needs to be held and convinced that it really is a good thing. I’m sure she will catch on, and I will certainly do my best in this regard as I am eagerly awaiting MY share of that goodness in a couple of weeks or so.
