24/08/2026
Eclipse kidded yesterday, she had triplets, 2 boys and a girl.
She didn't look close to giving birth, but had lost her ligaments the night before, I had woken up and checked on her several times overnight, and in the morning she still hadn't gone and still didn't look 'ready' enough.
So I carried on with my day, milked Heidi and Ally, then went and made my juice, came out to give the goats my juicer pulp, and she had given birth!!
She was laying down and he was still fully encased in the sack, she was cleaning him but the wrong end, I cleaned off his face and tried to wake him up, but he had been in the sack too long and was unresponsive.
Then she had a girl, and after drying her off she appeared to have some sort of neurological disorder, and her tongue was purplish, I think she must have had the blood supply cut off or something causing lack of oxygen to her brain.
We brought her inside and tried to feed her, unfortunately she never came good and passed away over night π
The last little baby was a tiny Swiss boy, he is so cute and they are both doing very well β€οΈ
While it's very sad that two didn't make it, she is a first freshener and our smallest doe by far, at only 43cm tall and she will be 2 in December, I'm so relieved that she kidded fine and is doing a great job looking after him, a little throwback of her daddy's colours π₯°
And she also has a very nice shaped udder and teats for the tiniest little goat π₯°
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