Bon Bon had her baby on Friday and they are triplets ! And guess what ? They have badger marking ( moderately , horizontal stripes on goat ’ faces ; in their case snowy and palest tan stripes on black-market ) but otherwise , they ’re black with white shadings just like me .
Bon Bon had my boy really tight . After stripping the goo from his nostrils , Mom point him near Bon Bon ’s fount so she could lick him light ( Mom helped but she used a towel ; humanity are mirthful that way ) .
Next she trim down his umbilical cord to two inches long and dipped it in a shot chicken feed of 7 pct iodine ( ow ! ) .
Then she waited . Forty minute passed . Bon Bon stop clean my son ; he get up and started nosing her udder . Mom smile but she was worried , too . There was n’t any afterbirth occur out , so Bon Bon should have been having another kid .
Mom was getting a bottleful of lube from the have outfit to check her when Bon Bon ’s eyes unfold wide , her ears stuck out to the side and she gave a big grunt . She began pawing the stubble . Mom put the lube away . Bon Bon fall through down and begin push hard .
Mom grabbed a towel and squatted behind her . Out plump another infant . Mom strip the goop from its nostrils and see to see what it was . A fille , hurray ! But just that quick , out popped another blob . momma ’s mouth fell open ; Bon Bon ’s did too . Triplets ? A first for our farm ! And the third baby was a little girl too .
So Bon Bon had her babies exactly on time , 150 Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after she was bred ( she must have a calendar hidden in the dairy farm barn ) . Normal child are nearly always deport between five day before and five days after their Mom ’s due date , though a few come even earlier and by and by .
mamma figures our does ’ due dates using full-strength , free goat gestation package she download for complimentary atBiology of the Goat(you’re able to use it online too , if you like ) .
She also uses it to determine our sheep ’s due dates by subtracting three daytime from the date the author betoken ( the mediocre sheep gestation endure 147 mean solar day ) and that works too .
Now Mom is wait for Lamb to be suffer . Wren , especially , is really , really fat ! Her lambs should get in in about 3 weeks ( her due date is Dad ’s natal day too ) . In the meanwhile , Mom ’s trying to catch up on sleep . She wants to be there for every birthing in case anything give way wrong .
Over the next two week I ’ll tell you what Mom keeps in her Charles Lamb and kid birthing outfit and how she can tell when the mamma are decease to hatch . It ’s distaff poppycock but since I ’m a sore guy , I can babble out about it too .
P.S. My new babies areWolf Moon First Officer Drex(Drex is Klingon General Martok ’s son),Wolf Moon Colonel Kira Nerys(she is a Bajoran leader on the space station Deep Space Nine ) , andWolf Moon Emony Dax(Emony is one of the Trill - Dax symbionts ; we already have goats named Jadzia , Curzon and Ezri Dax ) . ma enjoy Star Trek names !
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