Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Marshmallow is a new mom! Plus SURPRISE!

January 14th turned out to be an interesting night here and at Red Rock Ranch. Curt had been working crazy and long hours pushing snow for a string of several storms here in Extreme Northern Utah. He was on his way home from work, I had started dinner and I was letting Nakita and Leo out for a bathroom break. The girls were being extra quiet so I went down to go give a quick check. I saw Marshmallow standing with a baby running around her legs! So I ran back to the house got Nakita and Leo back inside, called Curt, shut off the stove, grabbed baby gear and left my phone for Lizzi and McKenna to talk to daddy while I ran back to Marshmallow. I opened the door to the kidding area and there was another baby laying motionless and the other baby running around momma's legs trying to find a teat. I ran the baby back inside and tried to warm her up and revive her.. no such luck she was dead by the time I got to her and I just had wishful thinking of saving her. While I was inside Curt went back to check on Marshmallow she had let the other doeling latch. However he came back to the house breathless telling me Oreo decided to kid as well! I didn't think she was due for another week!
So I ran back outside to help her and make sure everything was ok. Especially since she was with the rest of the herd instead of in the warm kidding area with the other mommas. I asked Curt to call our neighbor and see if she could come be inside with our girls while Curt and I worked out our new situation. Oreo had a little doeling all cleaned off looking for a teat. Oreo had stressed herself out  and was running all around with the afterbirth hanging from her. She also looked exceptionally bloody and I needed to check her. I was worried that it was a kid stuck or something was seriously wrong. So we caught her and her baby got them in the kidding area, Oreo was more interested in eating and continuously cleaning her baby, than letting her baby eat. I was worried we were going to have a bottle baby on our hands. I got Curt to hold Oreo still and I stuck my hand in to feel if there was another baby. She was empty so no baby but she did have a small prolapse, I was able to get it back in and she is healing very well. We tried to hold her still so baby could latch and it just wasn't happening. We needed to get our girls in bed so we left them alone for a while to see if they could figure things out.
We got the girls to bed ate dinner ourselves and tried to relax and not stress about the mommas too much. After we got McKenna in bed I went back out to check on how everyone was doing and Oreo and Marshmallow were having a huge fight. It turns out the Oreo happened to have her baby as well as Marshmallow's behind her and Marshmallow obviously wanted her baby. So I picked up her baby and gave her to her and pushed them apart. That only worked about 60 seconds and they were back at it. I am thinking it's because they were separated and now didn't want the other near their baby. So I called Curt and told him we needed to separate them some how so they didn't squish babies or hurt each other. So trying to do something quickly for the night, so we got the dog crate and put Oreo and her baby in there to protect everyone for the night. Oreo finally let baby latch and I wasn't worried anymore we went to bed in peace.
Meet Marshmallow's baby Peppercorn

Meet Oreo's baby Root Beer Float

Peppercorn

Peppercorn

Peppercorn

Root Beer Float

Root Beer Float

Peppercorn, Buttercup and Licorice

Root Beer Float


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