From two babies to eight. Here is how it happened.
Wednesday was a busy day for our family. We all had appointments and thus were gone from late morning until mid-afternoon. We knew we had four goats with expected due dates this week so we checked on them before we left home.
We have been leaving a walkie talkie out in the barn with its mate back at the house. When we got home we asked Nicholas to go check on the goats. He called back that Jesi had two babies on the ground.
Jesi had them both well taken care of by the time we got there. That makes four.
Michael stayed out at the barn Wednesday night. I was too exhausted from physical therapy to keep him company. He felt as though Mouse was in the early stages of labor so he wanted to be there if anything went wrong. At 12:15 a.m. he decided to go to bed.
Thursday morning I woke up and headed out to the barn. I radioed back that Mouse had three babies on the ground. I knew she had three in there. She was HUGE! That makes seven.
She probably gave birth about an hour before I arrived.
Mid-morning on that same day, Michael headed off to a dentist appointment and I headed to the barn to check on the goats. I radioed back that Oreo had just given birth and had just started to clean her single doeling. And that makes eight.
Last year 70% of the babies were boys. So far this year 63% are girls. We can only add two more to our milking rotation per Oregon laws. It might be a tough decision.
Mommas and babies are all doing well.
Four pregnant goats down, three to go.
Enjoy your day,
Karen
Holy moly!! I didn’t know you had 7 pregnant. That is going to be a very busy barn.
I soooo wish you were closer so we could play with the babies and help you with some chores.
I just wish we were closer so we could hang out more 🙂
Hugs,
Karen
Hi, you have beautiful Nigies! Was just wondering what this means…? “We can only add two more to our milking rotation per Oregon laws.” Thanks 🙂
We currently have 7 females that can milk. We still need to get one pregnant. So we actually have 6 in milk now. Under Oregon dairy laws, raw milk can only be sold on the farm. Producers are allowed to have up to three cows, nine sheep and nine goats.
Since we have 7 goats we can only add two more milkers to our heard and still be in compliance with the laws.
I hope that explains things more clearly.
Karen
Oh! And I was thinking it might be a land use ordinance, lol. Didn’t know raw milk could be sold in Oregon, so that’s good to know 🙂 I purchase Meyenberg’s goat milk from Walmart, but it’s just not the same… :O
Nope. Just government butting into everything 🙂
It wasn’t too many years ago we couldn’t even advertise it for sale. Them someone went to court claiming it infringed on her free speech. She won and we can advertise. We can not however deliver.
Karen
I saw your ad in CL for goat milk at $6/half gallon and was wondering if you have any openings left? Would love to get in on the list if so. 🙂