Tripplets

My goat Coco finally gave birth to triplets today.  Mother and babies are doing well.  She had two doelings and one buck (buckling, bucklet?).  We had been watching her like hawks because we thought she might have quadruplets (or more!) in that enormous belly, but instead, she had only 3 really big kids in there.  It would have been better to have more smaller sized kids, than fewer large ones.  In fact, the birth was very traumatic.  I have it all on video, and as soon as I figure out how to download it, you will all be able to see Coco screaming giving birth to the first doe.  After that, it all got difficult and more tense and I had to stop videoing, put on gloves and help pull out the enormous buck that almost didn't make it through the birth canal. 
Katie, my goat guru, almost gave up.  She thought of loading the goat into the truck to take her to UC Davis to get a c-scction.  But together, between her experience with 7 seasons of kiddings, and my 3 seasons of foaling, we didn't panic, gave mother a rest, and worked at it until we had the enourmous buck out.  Katie ended up having to pull him out by his lower jay.  After that, we were able to get the last doeling out easily. 
The fist doe is adorable, she looks like her pa, Galapagos, but has small ears, Katie says.  She was up and about fast and sucked down lots of colotrum from the bottle with gusto.  The buck (soon to be a wether) is huge and handsome.  He is as large as the two kids that are already 2 weeks old, poor Coco.  For all you mothers out there, imagine giving birth to a 13 lb baby.... anyway, in dairy show goats there is not much use for male goats, unless they are of amazig quality and are sold as breeding bucks, so this one will eventually be sold at auction, or we are considering taking him to have him for meat.  I don't know if I will be able to do it though, after bottle feeding him...
The third doe kid out is brown, like her momma, but unfortunately, has a pretty severe under bite.  She also had the most strenuous birth of them all and was very tired.  We had to tube her to give her colostrum as her sucking reflex has not yet developed. We'll see how she does at ther next feeding.

Just got a text from Katie (10:45 pm): "Babies ate well, everyone is happy!"

In the picture is the handsome buck, about 1/2 hour old, being bottle fed in my lap.