looks like pre-turkey day kids

reicheru · #**141** 12/22/08, 04:56 PM

hahahaha nooope... I've been watching her on camera all day. I don't have THAT kind of luck otherwise I'd go play the lottoooo.

chris30523 · #**142** 12/22/08, 06:21 PM

How cold is it supposed to be? Mine waited on the coldest day we have had so far.Poor little kidcicles.Look at my pics.Better yet show them to dorkweed and get her mothering instincts going.

susanne · #**143** 12/22/08, 06:57 PM

dumor goat feed is not the best choiuce in my opinion. how much alfa pellets do you feed? i would be alarmed if she astarts beeing sluggish with eating. watch for metabolic disease like hypocalcemia and ketosis (pregnancy toxemia). first clue is not eating as they should.
do you have any due dates for her?

reicheru · #**144** 12/22/08, 09:48 PM

I think it may have just been because she was separated... I put Princess in with her because I'm pretty sure she wouldn't try nursing off Scarlet and her appetite picked back up. Never mind that I also took about 1cc of molasses and drizzled it over her feed... the brat. >.<

I think that when I weighed my measuring cup of alfalfa pellets it was about a pound or so... I have very few choices when it comes to feed here... it's either Dumor or the local stuff my feed store makes. It's mixed for sheep and goats and just isn't as good. suuuucks.

susanne · #**145** 12/22/08, 10:48 PM

do you get plain clean oats? that would be enough already. if you can get barley to mix in, even better. i would not switch it now just before kidding but think about it for later next year.
i'm not a big fan of molasses either. brings the bacterial balance in the rumen out of balance, does more often freshen with congested udder and the list goes on.
one pound of alfa pellets does not meet her needs for calcium this late in pregnancy. i would start increasing slowly to 3 pounds. watch her temperature after she freshened for signs of milk fever (low temp).

reicheru · #**146** 12/22/08, 11:10 PM

She gets a scoop with breakfast and dinner... I'll have to weigh it out tomorrow morning when I feed. Sad part is, I know how much that big measuring cup of Strategy weighs. lol
I can get rolled oats but not barley.

I hate the molasses... but it was enough to tempt her. I may try a bit of applesauce tomorrow.

susanne · #**147** 12/23/08, 08:48 AM

don't put anything else in her food to tempt her. instead try to bring the balance back in the rumen. anything extra just makes matters worse. do you have fortified vit. b complex? probios/yoghurt? that will help and stimulate her appetite.
do you have tums? double strength, a coupple of them and you might help with the calcium needs. if you can get cmpk injectable from your vet, get it know. you might need it when she starts kidding. sluggish labor and not coming into milk will also indicate that she did not had enough calcium in her diet.
wish you luck and hopefully healthy kids

nduetime · #**148** 12/25/08, 07:28 PM

Helllloooo out there....any babies yet? Christmas babies would be wonderful. Just think of all the cute names. Holly, Star, snow, Barry ( as in Holly and Barry), Frosty, Nick, Mistletoe, the reindeer; Prancer, Dancer, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, Donner, Vixen , (I think I have that right, maybe not)

reicheru · #**149** 12/25/08, 07:54 PM

hahahaha As of 3pm, noooothin... I'm still out so she probably did drop them in her tire but hopefully under the heat lamp.

reicheru · #**150** 12/26/08, 04:23 PM

Nothing this morning either... rawr!

crisco41 · #**151** 12/26/08, 05:16 PM

I just read all 150 posts in one setting....No b abies YET? goodness she is the dorki queen

Minelson · #**152** 12/26/08, 05:18 PM

Jan 16th is the day I bet

But keep on checking every 2 hours for sure!

ShyAnne · #**153** 12/26/08, 05:23 PM

The new moon is on Jan 10th. Thats when Scarlet is going to kid and Bonny is going to foal....

DairyGoatSlave · #**154** 12/26/08, 10:16 PM

oy! that waiting would kill me, iv just been waiting a day and am batty as can be : / cant wiat for your baby pics!!

togg75 · #**155** 12/27/08, 11:00 AM

HAHAAHAHAHA! Nothing yet.....wait thats not funny. Come on already have the kids.

reicheru · #**156** 12/27/08, 05:13 PM

watch her go into labor in the next 4 hours with the severe weather rolling in. lol

DairyGoatSlave · #**157** 12/27/08, 06:10 PM

naturally, and i leaving mine to go to a dinner party so shell start hers soon too XD

chris30523 · #**158** 12/27/08, 07:03 PM

Bad weather? Thats when she will have them. I think of Dorkwad everytime I watch my two bucklings play.LOL They survived the 20 degree weather mon and tues and it was 70 degrees on thurs.
come on Dorkwad... We need more cute kid pics..

togg75 · #**159** 12/28/08, 09:18 AM

I am beginning to think that my Allleson that is due the 20th of January will kid before Dorkwad and her lil Dorkweeds.

I hope she does soon or this will be the biggest thread in goat forum history....

reicheru · #**160** 12/28/08, 05:18 PM

leeeeeeeave it to dorkward to set a record. lol

nothing yeeet... baaaaaaaaaaaaaaah