Immaculate timing by Georgina, one of our nanny goats, yesterday morning. I arrived first thing in the morning to open up the henhouses and feed the animals and found her in the main goat house in labour. Within minutes the first baby arrived. Fifteen minutes later the second appeared. That, I thought, was the delivery over. Not so. Another 10 minutes and out popped baby number 3. This final one was clearly the runt of the litter and we were unsure it would survive. It is half the size of the other two. He turned out to be quite feisty and made sure he got more than his fair share of milk, even pushing one of his siblings off the teat!
I checked them again just before midnight. All well, as indeed they were this morning.
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