Ah, springtime on a goat farm. Many of the does are pregnant and will give birth over the next few months. Today, I got to witness the arrival of not one, but two baby goats.
The first kid to be pop out was a little buckling. Jamian, the mama doe struggled a bit, as this was her first delivery.
One of the dogs was pretty excited, too. Seems like a nice afterbirth lunch is popular with the dogs. Usually, the doe will eat it, but if she doesn't, the dog will.
Tom and I were making lunch in the house when we got the call from Marcia, "if you want to see a goat being born, better hurry."
Naturally, Tom and I turned the spaghetti sauce on low and ran out to the barn. This is what we saw when we got there:
(if you want to skip straight to the bit where the kid comes out, begin with the fourth video.)
A few minutes later:
She got close in this one. She tried hard, didn't quite get the kid out, and then got up to walk around a little bit:
She didn't get very far when she gave one last mighty push and the kid's head cleared. At that point, Marcia grabbed the kid and yanked it out.
In this one, you can see the doe licking the baby to clean it up. Marcia steps in and sucks some of the gunk out of the kid's mouth.
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Wow man, like WOW!
ReplyDeleteI suppose I've never had the urge to find video of a goat being born. But, now that I've seen it third person... I don't think I'm ever going to want to see anything like that again. I mean she had hooves and a tongue and that dangling... oh man... and she was walking around! I mean, it's like she wasn't even in pain!
So, you're on a dairy goat farm and that stuff is going to be happening. Especially in the Spring right? But, can you please get to the dogs and the cheese and the bottling and the honey making and... anything... everything else. Please? Thanks.