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At Christmas of all times: Goat Emma has twins

2021-01-24T17:05:15.646Z


Animal shelter manager Manuela Ravara has never experienced anything like it: A goat has had twins - on Christmas Day.


Animal shelter manager Manuela Ravara has never experienced anything like it: A goat has had twins - on Christmas Day.

Gelting

- Before Emma came to the animal shelter in Gelting, she lived with a private citizen who had freed her from a bad position some time ago.

So far so good.

Only the call of nature was overwhelming at some point last summer: Emma jumped over a fence in August and joined uncastrated goats.

"She is partly a Passeiertaler mountain goat," says animal shelter manager Manuela Ravara.

“A fence like this is no obstacle for them.” Now good advice was dear.

"You couldn't build a safety stable." The owner asked for help - and Ravara said yes.

"After all, we already had two of Emma's descendants - Oskar and Rolf - in our care to protect them from the butcher."

Goat Emma was suspiciously fat

Emma moved into Gelting in October - and the first thing she did was to see her relatives in the neighboring enclosure.

And then the first miracle happened: Although the goat had not seen its two sons for three years, the animals recognized each other immediately.

Emma didn't hesitate for long, but jumped over the dividing fence to her "boys".

“So the family reunification was over sooner than we could see.” And the mother goat immediately took over the command of upbringing.

Suddenly the goats could behave.

Rolf mutated into a mommy child, and Oskar ate from the bowl instead of spreading everything across the square.

In a way, Ravara was also logged out.

“I'm just the aunt who comes with the food,” she says with a laugh.

The only question left was whether Emma was pregnant.

“You don't know whether she recorded or not.

But somehow I had a strange feeling straight away. ”Emma's growing size and behavior quickly confirmed the assumption of the experienced animal shelter manager.

Ravara began to calculate.

A goat usually has its young in February, the gestation period is 150 days.

"But August plus five months equals December." And: "As fat as she has become, twins could be."

Heidi has a spot on the star - in the shape of a heart

On Christmas morning the animal changed its behavior.

"She ran around like a bodybuilder," says Ravara, who looked at the expectant mother around noon.

“So it couldn't take long.” Two hours later, two cute kids saw the light of day: the snow-white Klara and the piebald Heidi, who also has a white spot in the shape of a heart on her forehead.

“So cute,” says Ravara enthusiastically.

"Even at night I take the flashlight to the stable every few hours to see if everything is okay."

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The names of the two kids were deliberately chosen based on Johanna Spyri's children's book “Heidi”.

“It should also fit in with the rest of the family.” And the future of the two girls is already secured: They can now stay in the shelter for the rest of their lives.

Source: merkur

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