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1. pocketsofthefuture

   29|Aug|2008 1

   Ironically for us …
   Ironically for us the 2 births birth that went best was the ones we were not around for. We had two cow births and the one we were there for the calf was breech and it was a hard birth. The other cow birth was in the night and we came out the heifer was already licked clean the placenta gone. For these goat births Iris birthed her kids when we were gone and that was by far the best birth. It seems to us that nature works best when there is the least intervention.

2. picklemountain01

   29|Aug|2008 2

   No problem. I also …
   No problem. I also forgot everything when it came time for mine to give birth! It was our first time with animal birthing, so I felt like I was on a high. I forgot that I had our kidding bucket ready, and grabbed a bunch of towels from the bathroom. And though the mess wasn’t disposable, I like how the large towels wrap around the baby and clean them up well.

3. pocketsofthefuture

   29|Aug|2008 3

   Thank you for the …
   Thank you for the idea. My wife actually read about paper bags and we had saved a variety of them and bought 4 rolls of paper towels but as it turned out we didn’t get to use much of what we prepared. We had originally planed to bring the goats in the milking barn as well.

4. picklemountain01

   29|Aug|2008 4

   A tip someone gave …
   A tip someone gave me: get some paper feed bags to put underneath doe so kid lands on clean absorbant material.