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Pilly’s babies!

Lillypilly had triplets on 30 Dec 2018.

We noticed she was in labour at 7.15 am with mucus coming out. By 10.30 Stella came out. Very tiny, followed by bright yellow liquid (meconium). She took 3-4 contractions about 1.30- 1.50 min apart to fully cone out. After a short break Harvey was born. Almost an hour later we thought the placenta was coming but Clementine came out flying.

Stella is very small but strong and keen. The others are super healthy.

Pilly had lots of milk so we bottle fed Stella colostrum as she could not stand for almost 24 hrs. Now she can drink mostly unassisted.

Pilly took a beating, was really exhausted. and didn’t pass the placenta.

Vet came at 11 on 31 Dec. gave Pilly oxytocin, penicillin and melacam. She got very bubbly but only for a few hours.

Thankfully Pilly has been eating and drinking well throughout.

We don’t know if she passed the placenta. She has been very particular about eating it.

But she has improved a lot. She is still bleeding and slow but seems on the mend. More antibiotics on 3 Jan.

She seems to have ran out of milk but that’s because the babies are already stripping her. They are bouncy and are doing plenty of poos and wees.

The heat has been very nasty so today we moved them to the rooster pen