Halloween Day dawned bright and sunny for Heidi’s due date. She was right on target last year, and looked to be headed that way this year too. She had been patiently waiting these last few days, and looked much like a beached (but content) white whale chewing her cud in the shade of the hackberry tree. She spent much of this morning the same way, gradually ending up standing in the shade of the barn.
Heidi is a big tough girl, but not tough enough to get out of the labor of having a kid. She pressed her head against the wall with each contraction, and called out to me as JW and I worked in the yard. Soon enough the waiting was over, and she had to get down to business. Heidi was a big kid when she was born, and her first kid, Orion, was of good size as well. I could see that this one would follow the pattern. The shoulders as they pass through the birth canal require the hardest push, and poor Heidi hollered as her body bore down. When the shoulders cleared, there was a final heave, and a gleaming white doe kid landed in a pile of long legs. She wasted no time in scrambling strongly to her feet and finding her own personal source of all that is good. Goat’s milk!
The day was progressing slowly toward evening, so I removed Heidi and her treasure to the inside of the barn where the sun still warmed the inside of the back wall. Not a moment too soon! She gained surprisingly quick control of her legs and at less than an hour old was trotting back and forth with Heidi following – still licking and cleaning and worrying her from nose to tail. Eventually, she settled into a warm spot in the corner with a full belly and was content to let her devoted mama nuzzle and love her until she slept.
The sire of this stout little girl is the Boer buck, AP. It is my hope that this type of crossing will produce does that will raise meatier kids with the added possibility of being milked themselves. Those plans, however, are a long way away for now. In the meantime, I cannot help but laugh that this new arrival reminds me of Heidi herself; a long-legged independent beauty who seemed to know from the start that she’s got this Granny Goat wrapped around her horn.
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