New Kiko Goat kids!

A couple of weeks ago now our Kiko does had kids. Two sets of twins, though only 3 survived. Patches had twin doelings, and Louise had twins as well – unfortunately though, one of hers was born in the water bucket and thus did not survive 😦 the surviving twin is a very nice looking buck though. These pictures are of when they were ~1.5 weeks old, and are themselves now another 9 days old.

Anyhow, a couple of pictures:

‘Stinky’ – buck on the left, ‘Patches’ – brown doe in the middle, ‘Louise’ on the right and Patches’ kids at ~2wks

Louise & her kid nursing, also one of Patches’ and Orso 🙂

They seem to be growing far faster than our kids in years past, having, in just about a month seeming to have doubled in size. More pictures on SmugMug: http://emilyrose.smugmug.com/Animals/Kiko-Goats-2013/

Patches & our 2013 Kiko Goat Kids!

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Kiko Kids!

One of our does had a single buck kid sometime on Tuesday, who, the next day weighed ~ 8 lbs. Unfortuantly our nice kid-weighing scale appears to be broken, so I had to bring him inside and weigh him by holding him on my (admittedly) inaccurate scale. Mind you it did lead to some fairly cute pictures:

 

1 day old

May 2, 2012, out of “Patches” and “stinky” – weighing ~ 8lbs at 1 day old

 

More Kiko Kids!

We had two more kiko goat kids this morning – this time twin doelings, out of one of our New Zealand does – Louis:

Kid 1, white, a doe @ 5.57#s

Kid 2, brown, a doe @ 6.76#s

Also, updated weights for Patches’ kids born 4/9/11 are:

Kid 1 (white, buck) – 12.74#s

Kid 2 (brown, buck) – 12.89#s

Kiko Goat kids!

We are in our second year of raising Kiko Goats now – last year we had 3 first-time moms, all of whom did quite well and all had twins. Patches (who was the first to kid last year too, strangely enough…) had twin buckling’s this afternoon, one mostly white w/ a few tan patches, weighing in at 7.34 pounds and one all-brown at 6.667 pounds. Hopefully I’ll remember my camera tomorrow and be able to post pics. We’re expecting our other two does to kid any day now as well.