Wondered how things were going? I have been reading you're posts and others and I feel for you. Ihad a doe that looked like she was in labor for weeks and since we didn't know the due date it was wait, wait, wait. My last doe that had babies was in active labor for 2 days...I am sure that you read posts about it! It scared me alot! She was in definate noisy labor the first day and then she quited down...it was like it was all backwards! She finally had the babies on the second night at 5 am...I spent the entire night on my picnic table outside the goat pen and it was a rainy, hot and humid night!

Hang in there and try not to worry to much, if you've read as much as you can you are about as prepared as you can get. Chances are small that you will have problems and most you should be able to handle, and if you can't, you might not have been meant to help. Maybe its up to the goat and her creator.

FYI-don't think your crazy about staring at your does "hoochie" parts. I stared at mine for almost 2 months because of not knowing the due date! She actually got used to me doing it and would run over for her treat and let me check on her! LOL I've been lucky because when all my does went into labor they were very affectionate and wanted me to be close.

Please give us an update, I am keeping my fingers crossed for a happy update!

Come on, come on, any news yet? Please let us know how its going. Fingers crossed here! ;)

Add me to the list of people waiting to hear! Until we get goats I satisfy my interest in them vicariously...hope everything turns out well for you and your girl!

tintine, I hope that the reaon tha you have not been anwering the posts is that you are too busy with little babies. Here's hoping, please hurry, I think at you have just about everyone waiting to hear the news.

Doc Robinson's report...
 

SO SORRY FOR NOT POSTING!!! The weekend exploded on us and there wasn't time to get on here... Doc checked her and said that the babies are moving and appear to be going strong, momma is starting to open up and noone is positioned wrong. He said he doesn't want to induce labor because neither baby or momma seem to be in distress. WHAT ABOUT ME??? I'm in distress!!!! :grump: He doesn't have an explanation as to why they aren't here yet, just that she is getting there and to be patient. She is still streaming and he inspected it pretty close and there is no sign of blood in it. The report itself was good, it just isn't here yet. I will keep you posted!!! :cowboy:

Thanks for the update.

Actually now a whole lot of us are in distress!!!!!!!!!!!! My sister in law went into labor when she ate a Big Mac....maybe you should try that. :dance:

Ruth

Now that's an idea...
 

:rolleyes: It would be my luck that as I drove the hour trip to and from a McDonalds she would have them and I would miss it.

she did oh congrats.. genders how many..color names.. sry im just so excited for you.
Congrats again Lyn

Well I am sure you are a good Goat mama, and will choose what is best for your girl, even if you are antsy. As with any pregnant female, one intervention usually leads to another and sometimes that snowballs into harm for mama's and babies. It is best to let nature take it's course, since goats have been doing the birth thing without us for years, I am sure this one can do it by herself also :)

Nic

Farmgirl2005, I am pretty sure that she was being sarcastic.

Oh yeah, thank you SOOO very much for posting tintine. By the way moosmaniac, I TOTALLY agree.

Thanks for the update, will be waiting for the good news!

I am so blonde i thought so....lol..sry i am so blonde :stars: :stars: lol ....well let us Know when they do have em.
Thanks Goat freak lol :cowboy:
Lyn

Yay another blonde!!! Hehehe.....Tinetine has she had them yet? I am about to go over there and pull them babys out! Lol. Is there any chance in heck that she could have gotten bred like a week or so later? Might explain the later birth. Or could you have gotten your breeding date wrong?

Sure hope she has some pretty does for ya to make up for the waiting.

MotherClucker

wow all these blondes, ill fit right in!!! hehe! well, actually my hair is bright pink, but my undyed roots are blonde!
take me with u motherclucker, ill help. :D

That's the really freaky part, she couldn't have been bred any later because we brought her home on the 30th of april and there are no bucks here. At least not any closer than two miles down the road. She is still leaking her stringy nasty goo and her tail looks disgusting now from it getting all over her :eek:
Motherclucker, you knock when you get here and I'll fix a pot of coffee!! I would gladly show you through the gates to her pen!!! :cowboy:

Lol ok..*hops in car* See you in a while :eek: :D . Oh wait....to far to drive :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: . Durn....welll umm......hmm....to bad transporters arn't created yet. Lol...

Well I hope she kids soon for you. I had a friend who's dairy doe went over her due date by 2 weeks :bash: :eek: :bash: :eek: . Talk about frustrating!! But it was well worth the wait (BEAUTIFUL kids).

Hope she pops soon!

MotherClucker

I know exactly what you are going through. I was there earlier this year with my does first kidding.
I have never laughed so hard as I have while reading this thread. I had to share it with DH so I read the whole thing to him, which was hard to do around all the laughing.
I know it isn't funny, the waiting is terrible. We just have to remember that Mother Nature has a way of taking her own sweet time.
Keep us posted. I will be checking in on you and your girl.

Thanks for the update, tinetine'sgoat! Glad to hear everything's fine...stay in touch!

keep us posted, we are all waiting with you.

tintine, how are things going, has she had them yet? Any signs of her getting there sometime soon? Sure hope that she has them soon. Don't forget to keep posting. Well see ya, bye.

mucous is turning yellow
 

I just came back in from checking on her and her discharge is turning yellow and a thicker consistency :eek: . I know this sounds gross but there is no smell like you would notice with infection, she had one of her hunch over contractions while I was out there and when she did yellow fluid, or pee, not sure which came out. Just a little tiny bit, probably about a tablespoon. Could it be that her water has broke? :shrug: She is laying down now, and I am going to go back out shortly, but I wanted to let you know for now and listen to any suggestions.

YES! Stay out with her she is VERY close. I don't know if that is the water or what but when that happens the babys are very very very close to coming out.

Good luck!!!

MotherClucker

Get back out there or you might miss the birth!!!!!

Hopefully you're outside with your girl, but if not, that's what color my doe's discharge was when she went into active labor.

I checked her everyday, (like everyone else it seems! :rolleyes: ) oh let's say, 25 times a day!! One day I had to leave for 2 hours. Just down the road, but I knew I was to be there 2 HOURS!

When I came home, she had her head in the corner (It was March & I made her stay in the barn when I wasn't home) with the THICK, yellow strings of mucus coming profously! And when she would lay down, she would really open up, about 1 inch or 2. She was like that for about 1.5 - 2 hours before she really started pushing. And yelling. Be prepared for that! BUT when she started pushing, the babies came really quickly. Like 30 minutes!

I had to help the first kid, after I panicked, called the vet, then delivered baby, cancelled the vet (he didn't like THAT!), the next baby was born quickly & easily. I wiped both kids & dipped the umbilical stump & gave them back to momma.

I hope you don't forget the camera/camcorder! You know everyone wants pics!

Tricia

jusy wanted to say that i just went outside and our 6 month old mutt goat had just had a baby, she is a doeling and she is having problems with her back legs, and her mom will not let her nurse, and her mom has like no milk, and she is too small for her baby to get milk very good. please pray for the little baby, the mom is doing ggod.

I think I have checked this post a hundred times today.... I hope everything is going ok.

tinetine's mama goat is giving me an ulcer ;) Can't wait to see pics of the baby!
Goat Freak, sorry to hear about your baby girl, hope she does ok. Didn't you mention you have another doe with babies? Maybe she can supply some extra milk for this baby?
My thought are with you both.

yeah, we have a nother goat, the mothers mother. But i tried to see if she would let the baby nurse, and I had to rescue the poor thing! I can not even milk her because she will not let me anywhere near her teats, and she has two growing kids to suppy milk for already, although she pulled off triplets last time. I hope that the baby does good. Well thank you bye.

I am sorry to report that there are no babies yet, momma is grumpy, I am getting there and I am begining to wonder if this is why she was sold. :nono: I was told when I bought her that she had twins before, but they didn't realize she had them and they were dead when they found them. They said she had them in the cold and on a piece of concrete and they figured that they had chilled and died. I am so frustrated with this. :grump: She starts and stops and progresses then regresses. :flame:
My hubby says I should take her to walk around Walmart. I'm still waiting on motherclucker to arrive... Maybe that's what she's waiting on too. I'm going to end this for tonight, I need a shower and a good cry. ;)

OH and BIGGEST CONGRATS to you Goatfreak!!! :happy: :happy: Hope all is going better, i'll pray for you!!!

Are you up checking on that goat yet?!!! We need a report. I think you have this whole goat board waiting on those babies! :o

this reminds me of the old joke "How do you keep a _____in suspense? It wasn't that funny then or now! lol ;)

Just wanted to tell everybody that I have posted about hte new baby on the thread, Help the situation really has got worse, and that the baby is now doing fine, and tat Lola, the mom, is doing a wonderful job, somehow hte baby even got ahold of thoses tiny teats and milked her.

Lol I am slow at arriving I know :p . *sigh*....I feel for you...my FAVORITE doe took for EVER to have her kids. I was so sure that she was going to have them that night...for like 5 nights and I didn't get any sleep at all :help: . I am sure she will pop them babys out in no time...if anything she might reach in there and pull em out if she gets grumpy enough :viking: (that is to say if you don't do that first ;) :p ).

She sure is taking her jolly old time.....tell her that she has tons of people waiting on her so she better hurry up ;) .

MotherClucker *who is going crazy from waiting*

The Lord is trying to teach me patience...obviously he doesn't think I am catching on quick enough. :bash: I'm begining to think he should move me to the "special" class. :nerd: :o I was just out to check her, she is mad as a march hare, butted at me when I was petting her. :grump: Waddling like a deranged duck. I am about to dig out my camo and face paint so she doesn't know she is being watched. You know I'm not a drinking woman, but this could lead me to it. :buds:

LOL, I'd drink to that if I was 21. Just hang in there tintine. And while you are at it tell her to hurry the heck up! She really does have just about everyone in the entire goat forum waiting, and as for me I do not have much patience, this is driving me nuts! Well hope she has them soon, and that you get to enjoy the babies. See ya.

Still nothing?!? Yikes.

Me and the rest of the goat forum, :buds: :buds: :buds: :buds:
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