In giving the girls their CD&T and bo-se shots about 3 weeks before the first doe was due, I noticed how huge Poptart was (Purebred Nubian), she always started making milk really early, and about a week from her due date I always milked her because she would get soo congested if I did not. I made a mental note to check her udder tommorrow because I think I am going to have to start already! She kidded the next day, with a bucking (yeah, he was deposited) 2 doelings (yeah)! So I am freaking she is soo early, she hadn't even gone into the pen with the buck yet, so she was 3 weeks early....not! the kids were fine.
I brought them in the house, to feed them colostrum, I didn't even have my kidding stuff together yet, and in picking up the buck to give him a really good look over before calling the new owner with the wonderful news, I remember thinking how strange it was that her being a red roan and the buck being from a very black and white family that these kids were very very white with some red...just like nearly all of Joni's LAMANCHA kids looked, then I saw he had no ears....
Sometime in July one of the LaMancha bucks had gotten in with her and bred her and then went back home....or she visited the buck pen, was bred and taken back home, or someone who nobody fesses up to, bred her and put her back. But to this day I have no idea how she got bred let alone to a LaMancha, and no bucks even on the fenceline.
I called the owner and told her no bucks were born in that kidding, would she like her second choice
So I doubt they are premie's and I have watched bucks try to get the right angle to breed through cattle panels for years, never.
Perhap devine intervention? Vicki
