Well, we had our first batch of kids this afternoon.  I was napping with my youngest and one of my daughters woke me up, announcing that one of our does had kidded.  And they are absolutely gorgeous!!!  These are the best looking kids we've ever had and just the sweetest little things!!  2 does and a little buck (which we will probably wether... aka castrate) so far.  They are all standing on their own and eating well. 

     Evidently everything went well and the momma just popped them out with no trouble and is doing very well.  Her bag hasn't completely filled up yet and it is a struggle to keep up with 3 kids.  But in a few days everything will even out.

For the first 24 hours we feed them 2 oz. of their momma's colostrum every 2 hours which means that my oldest daughters will stay up all night with them.  They love this special time of playing computer games with each other while everyone else is sound asleep.  They will wake up my 2 youngest daughters at 8am for the morning feeding on their way to bed.  We are hoping that our other very ready doe will kid yet tonight so that the girls will only have to stay up 1 night.  Usually it never works out that way and one year we had 3 does kid a day apart each so the girls were up for three nights in a row!!  That was a pretty tough year for them.   

     The funny thing about our doe kidding today is that goats very rarely ever give birth during the day.  They love to wait until bedtime or the middle of the night!!  It's just what they do.  So this was very welcome to us.

     Hopefully I will have time for pictures tomorrow!!