The corridor behind the stanchions is filling up with mom/baby pens. It's important to let the moms and babies be together to "mother up" for a few days after birth. Goat moms will steal each other's babies, or ignore them as I found out on Saturday. I came home from the Hamilton market and walked in on a twin birth. I think mom was thrown by the fact that there were two of them, then I walked in and interrupted the maternal bonding process. I am cautiously hopeful. Saturday she was stepping on them in the little pen I confined them too. We've been nursing mom out to keep her milk flowing and I'm bottle feeding the tiny little fragile babies - one of each. I can hardly stand to leave them to come to work. They are like little tea cup French poodles, and root for teats on my leg. Precious little sweeties...
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