Join my Guessing Game! Have fun! Impress your friends!

I'll get a new pic, so our game can continue. I have to jump through a lot of hoops to post pix cuz of dialup at home, so hang in there.

To answer a question, I have NO IDEA if she's preggers or not. I have been watching now for awhile. If I can sneak a snapshot of her while she has her back turned, you'll get a second round of guessing!

The girl is in with the billy AND NO ONE ELSE, so just in case she was not preggers, she has MAXIMUM opportunity to become so. Cuz if she doesn't get with the program, she's a goner. On very limited grass (due to drought) she is quite big. But who knows, she has fooled me once already!

Oh yes, I'm just doing this lil guessing game for fun, so let's not have anyone taking it as a real serious "right or wrong" thing. Please feel free to guess. Thanks! Be back with a new pic when I can sneak one.

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Can you feel her ligaments compared to other bred/unbred does?

Is she soft and loose under the tail, or puckered up?

Is she bagging up? Doesn't look that way...unless perhaps she's a FF.

The pictures are pretty inconclusive to me.

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For 10 bucks a vet could tell ya!

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Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. :baby04:

My labor to load her, plus the gas to get her there, plus the vet fee is a lot more than $10. It's $20 an hour for my labor to load and wait and bring her back, plus $10 in gas, plus the vet fee. Right now, she is eating for free. If she winds up open, I'll cull her. Cull price minus ZERO vet cost = full cull price.

I'm not a high-dollar show guy or a breeder. I farm these buggers. Low cost is everything.

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As requested. Feel free to guess. Remember, this is for fun only!

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Jim Steele
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I'm gonna vote yes!

Put me down as a yes vote...

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still not getting any pregnancy vibrations, so I vote no. WHEN ARE WE GONNA KNOW??

I vote yes.

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I'm changing my vote to YES. She's looking too big to just be well fed now. But I wish we could hurry up and find out for sure.

Here's an "out-take" picture from the set...


goatsareus, I'd say we'll know between September and December, depending on when the "blessed event" may have occurred. She has til December to make a believer out of me, then she is gone.

CountryDreams, I am sliding toward YES, too, since I cannot for the life of me understand how she can be so big on the little bit of droughty grass she is sharing with the buck in the barnyard now. And that's all they get, too. Plus, she has that deep-belly look that I tend to use as a sure sign. You can even see that in the first set of pix.

But this gal has fooled me before! That's why we are having this fun little distraction thread. I'll post more pix as we go along.

Anybody else wanna vote?

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Jim Steele
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I still say big rumen. Has she bagged up AT ALL? If she's due Sep, Oct, you should have SOMETHING???

I have two here that have MILK and aren't doing anything WHAZZUP WITH THAT??? arghhghghghg

Andrea

Well, from the first pictures you posted I could nottell at all. BUTT (haha0 the newer pictures, I have to say yes. she will be a MAMA.
I also want to tell you (like you don't already know), what a beautiful boy you have.

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Thanks, Sweet Goats. He just looks better with every passing month, at this stage. Not bad for $75 from the auction barn, huh? They sold six of them, all in the pen at the same time, pick your choice. Looked like peas in a pod. He sure has raised the standard on my motley crew of does. I'm still looking for the cleanup man, no luck yet. In no hurry anyway, as the drought makes another mouth hard to feed. But I hope to find something by October or so.

Andrea, only time will tell.

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Jim Steele
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I'm about ready to go draw blood to send in for preggo tests.... this is just ackkkkk

Andrea

From this pic, I'd like to say yes. And if she has the low belly look your talking about....that is a *very* good sign.

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Hey, could we get a pic from down on her level from the side?? I take shots like that on my knees cause it gives me a better true view of their belly depth.

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Emily, I must confess that I have felt something when I bumped her. I have told myself I am just feeling things, probably a rib or something, since I can't get my arms around her and have to bump her lower sides. So I am still not convinced! Burned before! SO I now live in Missouri: SHOW ME!

Pic from the low side is hard. She keeps moving to face me. I could try in the next few days. Her right, I presume.

Andrea...patience, dear. All good things with time.

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Jim Steele
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Either side is fine. I'd just like to see how low her belly is hanging. I've found that to be a much better indicator than width. So a full body shot from low and from the side. I know it is difficult to get those from some does.

So now your a Sho-Me'er......LOL!!

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I absolutely agree, Emily, and I will tell you it is low. I had the PERFECT angle last night...but no camera. Sigh.

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