Venus

Venus is one mean doe, but she wrote the book on how to kid and get those kids off to a jump start, just stay out of her way, she will bite and butt you. She wants no help, perfectly capcable of birthing those babies on her own. And she has real good hair and passes it on to her kids. She had two doe kids that will probably carry the mean gene. Just got up from the barn, Jewel, the doe, had a nice single buck kid that is a little slow getting started. Heard her screaming when I went out to do the midnight check, she had him almost out, I finished getting him out and laid him in front of her so she could clean and claim him. Being a first time shy Mom it is important to give her a pen to claim her kid. Sometimes a first timer will leave their kid if there is too much interference from another doe, a young guard dog or the shepherd, or just afraid of the kid trying to nurse her. All the signals have to be right, so she needs time to sort them out, and as soon as that kid talks to her that bond is solid.