Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

A day or so before we give birth we start to prepare: we wander around looking a bit lost but actually we are choosing the place to 'nest', our udder becomes full to bursting point and the muscles in our back end become a bit slack and relaxed so that the kids can come out more easily.

When I was pregnant with my first kids I had NO idea how much it was going to hurt. It has to be said we don't 'do' pain and so yes, pretty much every time a goat gives birth the air is filled with their screaming (and if we knew how to swear in human words, we would probably swear a lot too..).