The wait

cjb · #1 06/07/07, 08:31 PM

I know you can all emphathize.

Two does were allowed to run with a buck and their first day of exposure was 158 days ago. They look open in the back, have bagged up and one lost her ligaments completely.

Every day I think "this has to be it" yet they stand their, chew their cuds and torture me endlessly.

The ff doesnt' look very large and isn't very bagged up so maybe a single. The other, however, is obscenely enormous and her bag just gets bigger and bigger.

Dumb question: the latter has had milk in her bag for a few weeks now. I know you need ot leave the colustrum for the babies etc. but... doesn't it go bad just sitting there? Maybe not. If I barely pull on her teat, i get a stream. Poor girl - she is having to swing her legs to miss it right now!

Pray for safe deliveries and SOON would be good. I HAVE to do a presentation on Monday at work so, guaranteed, they'll go into labor Monday morning... sigh.

cayenne47 · #2 06/07/07, 08:46 PM

I so empathize with you. We have been waiting on this girl for 3 weeks now, we expected her to go before the does that now all have kids at their sides. lol.
The wait - Goats

And this last one is titled: Find the goat

mare · #3 06/07/07, 08:59 PM

i hear ya but ya know if ya have to go do something tommorrow you will come home and find babies---at least that is what happens to me, never fails

cjb · #4 06/08/07, 12:59 AM

What cute pics.

I have to tell you - my goat makes yours look like Paris Hilton - she is SOOOO fat!!!

cayenne47 · #5 06/08/07, 03:24 PM

10 am this morning, old 'wide load' delivered twins, doe and buckling. We were expecting at LEAST quints lol. The wait - Goats

MOM!!IT HURTS!!! The wait - Goats

Happy Family

PS In the pic with her and the kids, does her udder look TOO red to anyone or is it just that it was filled to the bursting point for so long?

cjb · #6 06/08/07, 08:50 PM

Wow - those look like big babies.

Are you a neat freak and make your goats birth on a tarp so - no fuss, no muss? ;-)

Cute

cayenne47 · #7 06/08/07, 09:06 PM

NO. LOL. It was just to keep everyone up out of the dirt. LOL.

pharmerwife · #8 06/09/07, 07:33 PM

Speaking of losing the ligaments...when my pygmies had their kids I was able to check for lost ligaments. Now my angoras are due and I can't seem to find theirs. They must have them because their due dates are the 16th and the 21st. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Are angoras harder to feel or do they lose them earlier? Thanks for your advice.
Tricia