A lot of kidding problems this year?

When does don't get exercise in late pregnancy they aren't toned, and birthing problems from mal presentations happen. Here it was a thickening of the amniotic fluid and we, my herd, several other herds, some mini horse farms, think our 'coastal' hay had fescue in it. If I wasn't here for kiddings I simply would have lost kids, no way could the dams have cleaned off in time the fluid around the kids faces with the multiples we have. I also had more true breech kids this year, more than all the years I have had goats combined. We had a good year in health of kids, size of kids and mortality was zero...but it would have been alot worse had I not been here for each kidding. Vicki

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well, I am nervous, but in a way I think that's good, if I were to get complacent, then I wouldnt be ready. As it is, I will be watching my girl like a hawk. I already check her a few times a day, and nothing happening yet. Now watch, she'll kid tonight while I'm sleeping.
I'm in Florida. At least we havent had the terrible season most of you have had, but it has been cold at times for this area. At least there has never been a day where everyone stays inside, they are always out and doing what they do.
I hope everyone has a smooth kidding season from now on

Thanks for the comments. Hopefully this coming year will be a bit more normal weather-wise for us. It will be interesting to see what the rest of our kidding season brings us. The next batch would have been on the flushing program for a few months vs. just a few weeks, we'll see.

There's no need to fret yourself about kidding until you see a problem. The best part is you're reading up ahead of time so you know what to expect, and when to seek help for your does, and what to do to prevent common problems.

HF

In 1988 in northern IL we had a horrible heat wave and drought. I was pg with one of my dds and miserable. I also ended up being 24 days overdue! My midwife told me that even the cows were calving late. She said it was due to the weather.

Who knows?

May you all have a blessed rest of the kidding season.

Batya

I am wondering about the conception end of the kidding process. I too had one HUGE single doeling out of a usual twinner. ( I know that's not a word!) The second was a FF and had a single..to be expected. But I believe that she will throw twins possibly as well as she is a twin. So what factors into the conception end? Why all twins and now only a single?

If I wouldn't have been present at her kidding, Karma might have really run into problems. Her doeling was GINORMOUS! Even with me helping by pulling hard during contractions it took FOREVER to get that doeling out. Missy wouldn't even let me out of her sight the morning of her kidding so there was no way to miss THAT kidding! lol. No problems tho!

Well in our situation I think that our pastures were so watter-logged that the nutritional value wasn't there. We were supplementing more than normal because/knowing this, plus flushed them-didn't work so far. Now I'm wondering if the lack of sun & overall constant sogginess added to the negative effect.

Kinda like countrygals situation only the opposite.

HF

how odd... back in 1980 Oklahoma had a horrid heat wave/drought.. I was due the first week of aug. There were five of us in my OB's practice that were overdue.. one by one, they finally went into labor...it ended up just me & one other gal (or appointments were always on the same day/time) I carried my son until aug 28th (on my way to the hospital, the skies opened up with the first rain in many weeks) Can you guess who my roommate was? yep.. the other *WAY* over due girl..

(We are on baby watch here 24/7.. Cameras are on constantly...had a doe kid last night on day 147..fast/easy labor. she had triplets 2bucks/1doe.... tomorrow will be day 150 for Ruthie.. 149 for Amelia)

susie, mo ozarks

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