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The Relaxed Farming Dairy Goats: Our offspring...
All about us
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Why keep dairy goats
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Fascinating facts
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How to look after us
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Our offspring
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Relaxed Farming Our offspring... (as told by Cheddar). This is where I get to tell you all about our kids, you're all going to want one (or two) by the time I've finished...

  • Goat kids are VERY high on the 'cute factor' scale: Read more

  • It all begins with the billy goat: Read more

  • Our gestation period is around five months: this means how long we are pregnant for and is actually between 145 and 151 days. Kids are usually born in the spring/summer: perfect as the weather is better (or ought to be...) and the grass, trees and bushes are all growing, so providing our food!

    When we are first pregnant we carry on as normal but in the last six weeks it all starts to really happen: our kids do most of their growing in this time so our bellies become huge and our udders get really full of milk. When Curds was pregnant with me and Gorge, her udder was SO huge it almost touched the ground! (Urggghhhh!)

  • A day or so before we give birth we start to prepare: Read more

  • But it is SOOOO worth it: Read more

  • It is very normal and usual to have two kids at once: Read more

  • Unbelievably our kids can be up and about within HALF an hour: Read more

  • The first few days are all quiet and calm: Read more

  • And then sometime around two-three months: Read more

 Gorge, just six days before giving birth
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