Our TN Adventure: Priscilla's Babies are Here Too!!!

Priscilla's babies are here!!!

Priscilla's triplets, 1 day old

Priscilla decided to make me wait this year for her babies and delivered a day late. She was originally due on January 21st. She ended up delivering on January 22nd, just like Whimsey.

So we went from no babies to 5 babies in one day.

Whimsey had her babies a little before 8:00 on the morning. After helping her clean up the babies, make sure they are doing well and nursing and making sure Whimsey was okay I finally got back up to the house around 1:30 in the afternoon. I was able to have some lunch and do the dishes.

I thought it was best at 3:00pm to check on Whimsey & her babies once more before the kids got home from school. As I'm heading down to the barn I hear a loud cry. Of course I take off running the rest of the way and when I got down there I looked through the window and there was Priscilla cleaning off all 3 of her babies.

I thought I was shocked that morning, I was even more shocked to see 3 healthy babies all doing well and a big pile of SPOTS.

This was our first year breeding with Welker, our spotted buck, so we didn't know what his babies would look like. I was so happy and excited to see all the spots and colors Priscilla & Welker's babies had.

Here are the babies they day they were born.

Priscilla's baby girl already looking to nurse at just hours old

Priscilla's baby girl just hours old

Priscilla's baby boy just hours old

They are all doing well now. Priscilla's brown with white splash girl, who we named Daisy, was the strongest. She stood and nursed first and is super independent. She was also the first to venture outside of the barn.

Priscilla's other girl, Itty Bitty is the black with white spots and is belted, is doing great. We named her Itty Bitty because she is just that, a tiny girl. She is little but she has lots of spunk and loves to play with her brother & sister and the other babies. We did have to help her get her ears to fold the right way, I think its from being squished inside her mama, but that worked out fine and they now fold the way they were suppose to.

Priscilla's brown with moonspots boy, who we named Duncan, is just a sweetie. He too loves to go outside. Usually he and Daisy will run outside and then back into the barn. They both love to play together.

This is not Priscilla's first time having babies so I have no worry about her being a good mama. She is wonderful with her babies, very protective, watches them great and makes sure all of the get to nurse.