Grace On the Mountain: The last kids of the year: Goliath and Tulip!!!!!!

💝GOLIATH AND TULIP!!!!!!💝

GUESS WHO KIDDED?....(wait...you probably have already figured out that Sugar is the only one left...)

Yesterday on February 21 Sugar was acting strange. I left her in her stall, and watched all morning, while playing with Sweetheart, Blizzard, Toffee, Kit Kat, Spicy, Clove, Miracle, Mercy, and Grace. A fairly long list of names there! All morning Sugar was in labor and then started to push around 2:00p.m. I ran to tell Mom and ran back outside. Just as I arrived, a ton of fluid suddenly gushed out. Mom soon arrived with the towels and iodine, then we settled down to wait.

Sugar was being stupid and was insisting on laying downhill in this pit with her rump pressed up against the wall. In fact, she was so insistent that I had to sit sprawled in the pit so that she wouldn't lay in it(you don't want an animal to lay downhill because they might bloat). She finally settled down and started to push again (it was 3:00 by this time).

Quite rapidly the glass ball appeared but I couldn't see a kid's mouth, tongue or legs. Mom and I waited patiently but it stopped coming out and finally Mom said that she should go up inside of Sugar and check to see if the kid was a breech.

I held Sugar and Mom went up inside of her, but the kid was right there so basically just her fingers. All the goats always bleat a little bit when we go inside of them because they don't like it. Mom said that Sugar had a big kid that wasn't coming out, but that it was presented the right way. Mom started to pull the kid out, and that's when the trouble began.

Sugar started to scream BLOODY MURDER. I thought that Mom was killing her, she was screaming so loud. I bet everybody in the neighborhood heard and wondered what was going on...

Mom said that she was pulling as HARD as she could, but this kid wasn't coming out! Mom pulled, I braced myself and held Sugar (who of course was standing up now...she always does that when she kids), and Sugar was screaming, blowing all her nasty hay-fermented smelling breath up into my face. I was trying to keep her from running, get some fresh air, and keep from screaming myself.

This continued for some time before finally Mom started to have some progress. All the while Sugar was SCREAMING!! I can't even emphasize or describe how LOUD sugar was SCREAMING!
Mom was groaning about how HUGE this kid was, I was still breathing nasty breath and Sugar was still SCREAMING. FINALLY the kid started to come out, but VERY SLOWLY. Gradually the kid slid out of Sugar. I grabbed a towel to dry the kid off then gasped.

I didn't name this kid Goliath without a reason. This kid is huge!! When we went to the sales yard there were some dwarf baby calfs that were sold and this kid is about as big as they were! No WONDER Sugar was screaming! The reason he was so hard to pull was because his sack had partially ruptured and his shoulders were dry and hanging up in the birth canal, not wanting to slide very well. Poor Sugar, we felt terrible but knew it had to be done. Mom was so mentally upset that she stated right then and there that this was THE LAST GOAT SHE WILL EVER DELIVER BABIES WITH-SHE IS DONE. I think she means it too 😏.

I dried it off (although it was already basically dry from being stuck up inside Sugar 30 minutes), then inspected it (I didn't need too...I knew by it's size that it was a buck). It was a buck- OF COURSE. A big dopey buckling. Then Sugar started to push again (she was still standing.) and the second kid slid out without Mom's help (Sugar hollered but not as bad). I dried it off, then inspected it.

I was sure it was a buck, but it wasn't! It was a doeling!! This doeling is about the same size as the buck kid, but daintier. I have never seen a doeling as big as her! I named her Tulip, as I don't know of any woman giants in the Bible or mythology, or else I would have named her that. They are NEPHILIM KIDS and YES THEY ARE THE BIGGEST KIDS OUT OF ALL 11. Sugar happens to be by the way the second smallest goat (the smallest is Ginger).

They were slightly dopey, but nursing well. When I was feeding the other babies I heard another kid start screaming where Sugar and Ginger were penned. I ran over there to see that Sugar was standing on the doeling, looking at it while it was screaming. Sugar is notorious for being a terrible mother. I shoved her off as fast as I could and stood the doeling up. She was ok, but Sugar had her kids taken from her today. She is a horrible mom. Sugar doesn't care though- she likes daycare to do all the work for her.

This is Goliath. He is the same color as Blizzard.