Unlike Jericho (read about her birth story), Idina was clearly pregnant. She is a very active, very curious goat but throughout the last month of her pregnancy, she became more protective of herself and spent more time in the stalls than she usually does.

She’s usually one to be out in the woods, leading the herd on a wild adventure to the best greenery to browse on.  Her belly was also was dropping very low (that’s where the does keep their babies).

Idina did a great job giving birth. We were sure there was more than one baby, but we’ve also learned that you can never guess how many are inside a momma doe.

The first baby to come out was a buckling who had some difficulty coming on.  It was a normal presentation, but just a slow process.  We helped clean the baby and got him off to the side and Emery was checking for another one and we were shocked to find nothing else inside her.  Idina was huge, and we were positive there was more than one.  First fresheners typically have one or two babies, but its not unheard of to even have three.

We named the buckling iGoat!  What a funny name with there being an “i” everything in today’s world. Our surprise was quickly resolved when we weighed iGoat. He weighed a whopping 11 pounds and 7 ounces. Now it made sense why she only had one, but looked like she had 6! iGoat was a quick eater and a super strong buckling.

We were very proud of Idina, and she was very proud of what she had done!

2015 kid count: 28 doelings, 28 bucklings
2015 doe status (33 total): 24 does kidded, 9 left to go
2 set of quads, 8 sets of triplets, 10 set of twins, 4 singles