Katy ’s babieswere born exactly on her due particular date last Monday , and , boy , did we get a surprisal ! We thought she was having twins , but she had triplets : two fille and a boy ! Part of their delivery was unexpected , too — the first baby was get .
The adventure began Sunday Nox , when Katy feel restless and Mom slept with her in the b . Mom says that if she has an animate being bred , it ’s her responsibility to be there when the mama gives birth in case she needs aid . Mom had been walking from the sign of the zodiac to the barn to do night bridle for a week . It was very cold , and she did n’t get much sleep . That was n’t fun . She put down extra straw , spread out her sleep bagful pads , took a pillow and some blankets , and set herself up in a quoin of Katy ’s stall . Katy came over and slept with Mom — she thought encampment was fun!Sue Weaver
By the next daylight , Katy was being very affectionate . She ’s always favorable , but she fray on Mom and cry when Mom went aside . Personality changes are an former augury of kidding . Sue Weaver
Sue Weaver
A few hours by and by Katy began digging in the straw . She ’d dig and dig , then lie down , hold off a hour , get up , and look around for kids . That ’s call nesting . Labor had begun .
Finally , Katy got down to business . She ’d lie down , have a contraction , get up and dig , then lie down again . After 30 minutes or so of that , woosh ! A ebullition of fluid come out of Katy ’s vulva . Her pee had broken . Sue Weaver
Katy stayed down and jump agitate hard . A bubble should have appeared with 2 foot and a nozzle inside of it , but nothing happen . mamma checked and all she could feel was a tail , a butt and two hocks ! Katy ’s Thomas Kyd was in a true breech status — a very heavy one to correct . Dad halt Katy while Mom tried to re - set the child . She get one leg pulled back into a normal reversion - parentage position , but she could n’t promote the kid back into Katy very far and the other stage would n’t come back . Finally , Katy push while Mom draw in , and out popped a cute inglorious - and - white-hot doeling . draw out is awful for the Department of Energy and life-threatening because it ’s very easy to injure her , so it ’s important not to be rough if you have to do it .
Sue Weaver
Mom and Katy set to ferment cleaning the little one , but not for long . mommy felt another kid when she pull the first one . Everyone held their breath . Was it positioned correctly?Sue Weaver
It was ! Katy plopped back down and easily delivered another cute black - and - lily-white doeling .
mummy used the sterile scissors in our birthing kit to dress the little girl ’ navels to 1½ in long , then she dip the stumps in 7 - pct iodine result . ( Nowadays , you have to buy that from a vet . ) We were all celebrating a successful kidding when Katy stopped lap her girl and reckon very weird . She whipped around the stall , hunker , and in a large gush of fluid , another kid flew across the carrel . It was a big , healthy boy . Good thing he was n’t the kid that was stuck !
Sue Weaver
After that , Katy began tardily passing her afterbirth . Mom brought Katy a handsome bucketful of affectionate , molasses - laced water from the house while Katy lick , punch , lick her kids . Katy glugged the water down and ask for another pail !
mum hung around ascertain the little family bond until Katy ’s afterbirth came out . Then she inverted a plastic udder over her hands , cull up the afterbirth and took it away to be burn . If it is n’t get rid of , goat and sheep momma often eat their afterbirth , and some people think they should . But our sheep , Baannie , tried eating hers a few year ago and suffocate . mum had to give Baannie a sheepy Heimlich maneuver or she would have died , so now they do n’t get a chance to eat it .
Then Katy got a big Venus’s curse ofdewormerbecause strain touch off a parasite hachure in new mother . She also had to have a round of drinks of long - lasting penicillin shot to prevent contagion because Mom had to dislodge her first kid . Some veterinary surgeon urge insert a uterine bolus ( that ’s a fully grown , slow - release antibiotic pill ) or else of shots ; postulate your veterinarian which he thinks is just .
So I ’m a dad again ! My new kids ’ names are Black Meg , Lulu Darling and Flash ( who you could see being born in the picture above ) . need to see more picture ? VisitKaty ’s Facebook pageand take a spirit !
Sue Weaver
