Em Nau Farm BLOG

On Sunday 23 June 2013 two of our does kidded.  First girl to go was Sienna (a Toggenburg/Anglo Nubian cross) who gave birth to two big bucks at about 1030ish.  Heather was doing the normal Sunday morning chores and when she went to collect the eggs she noticed Sienna with her back leg and teats pointing towards the sky and a little wriggly thing on the ground.  I was up the driveway whipper-snipping and Heather drove up to get me.  By the time we got back Sienna was about half way through delivering the second buck.  The second buck was presenting back hooves first  but we decided (after the problems we had with Zee [see previous story New Arrivals Part 2]) not to interfere unless we had to.  Sienna did a fine job all by herself and both boys as strong and healthy.

At about 1PM Cyd (Anglo Nubian) started kidding.  For Cyd this was her third pregnancy but if she gave birth would be first time she had gone full term and had live kids after two previous miscarriages.  Heather and i were just going to sit down and have lunch and I went to check that Sienna’s babies were OK when i spotted Cyd sitting out in the sun showing the early signs of birthing.  I went back and got Heather and we sat eating our lunch on fold-out chairs watching Cyd.  Cyd finally gave birth to a little doe with all the noise that the Anglo Nubian is famous for.  We are lucky we as so far away from neighbours on this occasion as I am sure that they would have thought someone was being murdered.  Within about twenty minutes Cyd had delivered her second kid, a big strapping buck. 

For many reasons we are not going to name the bucks but the little doe will be called Kainantu [pronounced kai (k as in kit – kai as in sky) nan to] which is a town in the Eastern Highlands Province in PNG that makes exceptional pottery.