"You will have plenty of goat's milk to feed you and your family." Proverbs 27:27

Welcome to Kidding Season!
(The animals pictured in our photo gallery below are not necessarily for sale.
To see what is available, please visit our For Sale page.)

Few things bring us more pleasure than helping our does to birth their beautiful kids, and then giving them a healthy start in life. Indeed, together with the wonderful milk we enjoy, raising kids is the reward for all the hard work that takes place throughout the year.

We attend each birth so we can help the does, if needed, and be there in those first crucial moments of life for the kids. Our does are given their CDT vaccines 6 weeks prior to kidding so that immunity can be passed to their kids through the colostrum. Selenium injections are given to the does four weeks before they give birth.

As part of our CAE prevention program, kids are removed from their dams and hand-fed their bottles of colostrum and goat milk. Newborn kids receive an oral dose of goat nutri-drench and selenium injections.  Their navels are dipped in iodine and clamped. We try to get colostrum into them within the first 30 minutes after birth. Because many of our kids are born in late winter, they enjoy the first hours of life in front of our woodburning stove and spend their first week indoors. They are then moved to their own barns and play yards and raised separately from the adults.

When the kids are around 10 days old, they are disbudded and tattooed. At about three weeks of age, we begin our coccidiosis prevention treatment and kids are given their CDT vaccinations at about a month old. By 6 weeks of age, they are dewormed, and at 8 weeks they receive their booster vaccinations and are weaned and ready to leave the farm. But perhaps the best care we give our kids is when our daughters love and play with them!

Here are some pictorial highlights of the joys of kidding season:

Chow Time! Our four-legged kids are fed by our two-legged kids. Their size-2T sweatshirts help keep them warm.

Newborn kids get a welcome hug.

Hey, somebody get me out of here!

Life is tough when you're a kid.

Maple's doe kid is 1 day old and looks just like her sire.

How many kids can you count?

These boys were sired by Caspian.

Winter kids enjoying a warm, sunny day.

Our first kid sired by Gideon. Did someone say ears?

One day we'll write a book and call it Goats in the Kitchen !

The Coordes Family E-mail: nubians@faithfulfarm.net

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