Lucky Day Here!
Posted by Farm at February 28th, 2010
Roulette, our first Lucky daughter to kid here, delivered beautiful twin doelings this morning. We missed the birth by minutes, but she did a wonderful job.
I had just checked on her and decided to go ahead with breakfast. She was shivering from being moved into the kidding pen, and was scared, but I figured she was impending. Boy was I wrong. 20 minutes later, after a quick bagel and grapefruit, we turned on the webcam, and tadah! she was licking babies off. Great job for a first freshener.
These are Jeriah’s first kids, and boy are they dairy. Long legged, long backed, very sweet faces and possibly blue eyes. One of these girls will likely stay here, but I may decide to wait until after Minuet kids, as she carries the same basic genetics. Right now these little girls have my heart, so only time, and rationality, will tell.
Now we wait for Jewel and Fern, who are both due in the next two weeks. Jewel is bred to Rebel, who we lost this past summer. And Fern is carrying full siblings to Rebel, so hopefully there’ll be someone in there to step into his “big hooves.” Stay tuned.
