I am not ready

Mama2ws · #21 02/04/13, 06:19 AM

That's absolutely beautiful. Happy labor vibes

Minelson · #22 02/04/13, 06:38 AM

Hopefully all goes great and there will be pics when I get home from work!

Otter · #23 02/04/13, 07:16 AM

Honeysuckle sez; The chickens are awake. That means it is morning and I have to let her out of the shed. Those pine trees will not eat themselves! Having babies? Shocking! She wouldn't dream of doing such a thing! What on earth gave me such a silly idea?

It is 7 am here, a bit after my last post, I stopped feeling contractions, though she is pretty restless and peeing frequently. I am going to send DD (12) out to stay with her for a bit while I take a hard nap. Hopefully DS (3, and nocturnal) sticks to his habit of not waking up before 9 and lets me.

And then, I may put up a poll. Are goats the reason we're insane, or only the proof?
Be kind all and remind me of this thread when I am drunk on baby cuteness and thinking I need more goats. Only doing this 2, maybe 3 times a year is fine. Really. So tired...

Cyngbaeld · #24 02/04/13, 08:05 AM

Hope you get a nap! Hope she waits till you get rested too.
Glennis always lets me know the very moment she is thinking about MAYBE going into labor and has a fit if I am out of her sight for a second to go to the toilet or eat. Which means I am out there with her for the entire day wondering when she is actually going to do anything. This may be her last yr to kid though. She is getting along and I am thinking retirement would be good. That is, if I can keep the hussy away from the buck in the next several yrs. She is my herd queen and is such a love, I will really hate to lose her.

CarolT · #25 02/04/13, 09:01 AM

Poppy and Rosie have had strings of goo up to a month before anything really happened. If it's clear, I ignore it. It's when it gets off white and long that I sit up and pay attention

Goats are the reason _and_ the proof of being crazy

Oat Bucket Farm · #26 02/04/13, 10:12 AM

Have a great nap!

Backfourty,MI. · #27 02/04/13, 10:31 AM

I hope she's serious & gets down to business today & she's not just playing with your mind! We all know how goats can be when it comes to kidding!

Otter · #28 02/04/13, 11:07 AM

Children and goat let me sleep until 10! Ten am and pm are my usual milking times so I leapt out of bed, milked, and got the chores done.
Still nothing from Honeysuckle except that all the other goats can go out and run around and I'm just mean.
The other goats agree that I am just mean because it's drizzling. Even though they prefer the eaves of the house to the shed for any but torrential downpours, but since they can't get in they have forgotten their previous disdain (the horse doesn't go into the shed, she hangs out next to the house, which is where the goats got the habit)

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Originally Posted by CarolT

Poppy and Rosie have had strings of goo up to a month before anything really happened. If it's clear, I ignore it.

It was clear, and just the one string, then nothing all night.

Do goats have Braxton-Hicks? Because she hasn't had any since somewhere between 5 and 6 am, after having light, easy ones all night.
While she was sucking down her morning alfalfa pellets, I got a good shot of her nether regions. Her udder is still small, but for the very first time ever she has one, and you can see the wax on her teats. I couldn't express anything this morning.
I am not ready - Goats

But her girl parts are still HUGE and swollen and jiggly. They've been noticeably larger then normal for a month, but now they're twice the size they were.
I am not ready - Goats

What do you guys think? Is she ready? Is she messing with me? Am I going to spend the next month exhausted and sleeping in the shed?

coso · #29 02/04/13, 11:13 AM

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Am I going to spend the next month exhausted and sleeping in the shed?

Maybe !!!

Honestly that udder does not look like a doe that is going to kid in the next week !!! JMO

yarrow · #30 02/04/13, 11:36 AM

after I have to agree with coso... I don't think you are having babies anytime soon... I would venture to guess that your original due date of March 1st may well be the correct one... she has no more udder then any of my does (all due after the 1st)... so, don't wear yourself out (years ago I bought a group of bred does from the neighbor.. he got hurt and had to sell out... he gave me due dates (all over a month off LOL)... we spent WEEKS worth of nights going out to the big barn and doing eyes on night checks.. this was BEFORE we built a kidding barn, BEFORE we had cameras.. it was also the coldest winter we'd ever had in all the years we've lived here... OH.. it was also the last year we did JAN/FEB kids LOL... I was so tired.. I would just sort of pass out during the day, if I sat down.. (that was the year I also promised myself NEVER again would a buck run with the does to breed a group of them.. it would be one doe/one buck/ put together, watched.. as soon as they breed twice.. buck goes back to buckland, doe is turned back out with doe herd.. I come in and write down the breeding date/info RIGHT THEN- so I don't forget it LOL) I get a lot more sleep during kidding season then I use to LOL..
good luck, don't wear you both out!!!

susie, mo ozarks

Otter · #31 02/04/13, 11:50 AM

TY all.
I wasn't sure about the udder, because I only have experience with one first timer, Dryna, who's udder looked just like that until she kidded. Except without the wax.

So it's normal for her girl parts to be so very huge and jiggly? I should get some video of her walking, she gaps open a teeny bit (again, I've only known old-pro does, and Dryna- who gave NO sign until losing her ligs at 7 am and kidding at 11:30 am. We spent her entire pregnancy saying "Nah, it didn't take. There's no way")
And the contractions? They do have practice contractions?

Because if so I am letting her out of the shed and going to bed. DD will have to spend her day actually doing schoolwork and not playing on her ds out in the goat shed.

Yarrow, while she was with the buck,

as I'm sure everyone can tell, I observe really closely. The plan was for him to breed her as soon as he was ready, and then get wethered (But he grew up so outstandingly beautiful!!! ... that's another story) And she was in serious heat Oct 2. Textbook, full blown heat. And was bred many, many times. There was nothing after that.

yarrow · #32 02/04/13, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Otter

TY all.
I wasn't sure about the udder, because I only have experience with one first timer, Dryna, who's udder looked just like that until she kidded. Except without the wax.

So it's normal for her girl parts to be so very huge and jiggly? I should get some video of her walking, she gaps open a teeny bit (again, I've only known old-pro does, and Dryna- who gave NO sign until losing her ligs at 7 am and kidding at 11:30 am. We spent her entire pregnancy saying "Nah, it didn't take. There's no way")
And the contractions? They do have practice contractions?

Because if so I am letting her out of the shed and going to bed. DD will have to spend her day actually doing schoolwork and not playing on her ds out in the goat shed.

Yarrow, while she was with the buck,

as I'm sure everyone can tell, I observe really closely. The plan was for him to breed her as soon as he was ready, and then get wethered (But he grew up so outstandingly beautiful!!! ... that's another story) And she was in serious heat Oct 2. Textbook, full blown heat. And was bred many, many times. There was nothing after that.

FULL BLOWN TEXTBOOK HEAT .. OCT 2... is March 1st for sure.. let her out (DD can peek at her once in a while).. and get some sleep..If you and Honeysuckle wait until the 1st.. you will have company for your misery.. I have LOTS of does due that week...

here's her dam.. she is due on March 17th (this is her 2nd kidding)
susie, mo ozarks

Otter · #33 02/04/13, 12:20 PM

Honeysuckle is about that size. Except for color, she looks a lot like her mother.

Ok, good, false alarm. This gives her more time to bake the twin does we asked for

She really scared the crap out of me.
I opened up the shed and she looked at me and said Are you crazy? It's raining! Apparently if they can't see the horse nonchalantly grazing in the rain, they do actually remember that they are goats, and rain is acid.

I think Dryna scarred me for life as far as first fresheners are concerned. She spent a day beating a Nigie buck around a pasture, and then nothing. Absolutely nothing. Two days before she gave birth, a farm visitor pointed out to the field and said "Is that the one you thought might be bred? Because she looks pretty pregnant to me!" ~ He was pointing at our wether, Erik the Fat

Then I let her out of the shed one morning at 7 am, her tail looked funny and I thought to myself "Are her ligs loose? Nah, can't be. She doesn't look at all pregnant, much less ready to kid!" Same tiny little baby udder as Honey.
11:30 I looked out the window and though "That's weird. Dryna doesn't usually let the cat hang out with her, much less rub ... OH CRAP!!!"
Dash outside and she has a single, mini-mancha buckling and a huge udder.
Scarred I tell you. First Freshener Phobia

LoneStrChic23 · #34 02/04/13, 12:23 PM

Yep.... jiggly girlie bits are normal.... Mocha got the jiggly look this week... She's due mid March. Bleuberry & Star are both poochy and jiggly.... Due Feb 21 & 28th.

Gotta love how those pregnant gals mess with us eh??

Blue Run Farm · #35 02/04/13, 12:28 PM

Oh good, I am so glad to hear that jiggly girl bits are normal! Cookie is not due until March 30 and her girl bits are already all puffy and jiggly. I was starting to worry that she was going to go into premature labor. Goats are giving me grey hairs. Otter, glad it sounds like you have time to finish getting ready for the twin doelings she is surely carrying!

Pony · #36 02/04/13, 02:24 PM

Keep a good thought. Maybe the buck's genetics have something to do with due dates, and she'll go late... Trub never was one to be on time.

Can't wait to see what Stormy throws. BTW, still looking for those <fill in the blank> docs, but as soon as I find them, they're on the way.