Kidding Kit

We are in the heart of breeding season (some of you may already be done), so it's not too early to start thinking about putting together a kidding kit. Once you have it done, you can rest easy, and you won't have to run around trying to find things when the blessed event occurs.

You'll need a container to keep everything in, but it doesn't have to be anything fancy - in fact, you can just use a box. Here are some items that you should have available at kidding:

• 7% iodine for dipping cords
• A plastic film can or prescription bottle to put iodine in for easy dipping
• A flashlight (one of those lights you wear on your head will free your hands)
• Dental floss, to tie a cord if you have to cut it
• Sterilized surgical scissors for cutting cords
• Bulb suction
  
• Old towels for cleaning kids
• Betadine surgical scrub for washing hands
• Disposable exam gloves
• K-Y jelly
• Feeding syringe and tube for weak kids
• Empty feed bags to put under kidding goats (easy clean-up)
• Empty pop bottles and Pritchard teat, if kids have to be bottle-fed

- Raising Goats for Dummies, p 215-216