Lizzy's Big Day

Look at this big Mama!

She is so ready to have her babies. Just looking at her made ME uncomfortable. She was constantly rubbing her sides and her bum on the fence. This picture makes me laugh a little.

 Animals just do what feels best and rubbing her behind was one of them! 

We knew for sure she was having quadruplets again!

Time to get prepared. We wanted to make sure we had a back up plan in case she needed help again.

Victoria put together a supplies bucket and this is Kaleb's interpretation of Lizzy.

I think it is very accurate.

After a very long day of checking on her hourly, she finally gave birth to 4 beautiful little nigerian dwarf goats. Lizzy is such a good mom too. She did her best at 2 am to clean them up. Victoria and I dried them off as they came out. It was quite cold! Daphne and Victoria carried the babies into the shop to a dry bed of leaves while Kaleb and I convinced Lizzy to walk across the pasture into the shop. Poor girl could barely get her legs to move. I think she was still contracting. 

She stayed right with her little ones all night while I slept on a foam pad right next to them. I was worried that Lizzy would eat something that she wasn't supposed to eat in the shop but she didn't. 

This is little miss Paisley. She was the first one out.

Mr. Apollo was the second one out. He was very adventurous from the beginning.

He kept coming over to me just hours old to curl up with me, and was the first to venture off. Lizzy had to keep going after him. She would constantly be talking to them to keep them all together. Every time he came to cuddle with me, I made him curl up with his mama. I didn't want him imprinting on a human. He is a sweet little boy though. 

This little guy was the third one out. He looks like a Holstein cow. Our friend saw him and claimed him when he can leave his mama. She has named him Moo. Not far from us calling him Cow, then Cal, because we felt bad calling him a Cow. He's the only one with brown eyes. The rest of them all have blue.

This is little Miss. Bonnie. She was the last one out and the smallest. She showed no interest to latching on to her mama to eat, so she and Apollo are being bottle fed. We couldn't get Moo to open his mouth for the bottle so we left him to latch on to his mama with Paisley. That has worked out quite well. Apollo drinks from his bottle and then sneaks some from his mom too.....the little piggy. Now when Bonnie is hungry, the rest run after Lizzy for breakfast and Bonnie stands at the gate and cries for her bottle.

It is amazing at just 5 hours old what these precious little babies are capable of doing.

They are SO SWEET!