Watching and waiting for #2

cjb · #1 07/05/09, 01:54 AM

Herriot has a very full/tight udder, zero ligaments, has been pawing the ground and is isolating herself from the herd. I put her in a stall for the night and expect something to happen fairly soon. No discharge at all but my goats don't always have that.

She is an Ober/saanen that just looks like an Ober and was bred to a white Nigerian Dwarf buck so the kids should be interesting!

Bricheze · #2 07/05/09, 02:32 AM

Are you staying up with her? I am paraniod with my goats so I have 'goat cot' that I pull into the barn to sleep with them and check on them ever 1-2 hours lol. Good thing mine rarely if ever kid at night, usually if they go into labor they kid before 9 PM, more often in the later afternoon for me :P

Backfourty,MI. · #3 07/05/09, 07:33 AM

I usually see the discharge(called GOO here) but my last one, a first freshener had no goo. Actually her ligaments were gone but showed no other symtoms at all when we were down there at 8 p.m. Went down in the a.m. & there were babies standing there, she had been cleaning them & had already nursed. First time it's happened like that here though.

Minelson · #4 07/05/09, 08:44 AM

Any babies yet?

Can't wait to see the pictures!

cjb · #5 07/05/09, 11:43 AM

No babies yet - just an exceedingly fat Mama that grunts when she lays down.

She was bred to an ND buck yet she is HUGE! I would think that minis would be smaller and take up less room. Sheesh. Maybe she's having a dozen. She has given me twins 3 times in a row and has only had doelings. Will be interesting this time around.

DairyGoatSlave · #6 07/05/09, 12:15 PM

congrats! cant wait for pics!!!!