Obsessively following goats around feeling of ligaments

TxMex · #1 02/17/11, 03:25 PM

They are driving me insane(or insaner if that is a word)! One day they are carrying their bellies so high that it looks like their spines are sinking into the belly. Next day they are practically dragging bellies. I now follow them around looking at their backsides and trying to locate the ligaments and feel for tail lift multiple times a day. One day their udders look larger....next day they seem to have shrunk again. I'm sure the neighbors are all shaking their heads and considering calling the fellas that give you those jackets that fasten in the back.

Nobody was supposed to be due until next month. Oooops, one of my girls kidded Monday. I have actually gotten grey hair within the last week!! How do those of you with entire herds of these creatures keep from yanking your hair out??!!

Creamers · #2 02/17/11, 03:33 PM

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the neighbors are all shaking their heads and considering calling the fellas that give you those jackets that fasten in the back.

They should probably send the same folks over my way

The Tin Mom · #3 02/17/11, 03:35 PM

LOL! My daughter says I would really like one of those jackets that lets me hug myself!

My goats are making me crazy, too! Especially my little obie. She gets up & moves if I am anywhere near her tail, she is so tired of me checking her ligs! But, she is grunting, moving slow & looks about ready to pop!

CarolynRenee · #4 02/17/11, 03:37 PM

We've been on "butt-check" duty for the past few weeks.

pygmybabies · #5 02/17/11, 03:41 PM

You sound like me, I think that is why my back hurts, from bending over to look at there back side. Yes I got hubby feeling ligaments everytime he is out there...lol

Backfourty,MI. · #6 02/17/11, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by TxMex

They are driving me insane(or insaner if that is a word)! One day they are carrying their bellies so high that it looks like their spines are sinking into the belly. Next day they are practically dragging bellies. I now follow them around looking at their backsides and trying to locate the ligaments and feel for tail lift multiple times a day. One day their udders look larger....next day they seem to have shrunk again. I'm sure the neighbors are all shaking their heads and considering calling the fellas that give you those jackets that fasten in the back.

Nobody was supposed to be due until next month. Oooops, one of my girls kidded Monday. I have actually gotten grey hair within the last week!! How do those of you with entire herds of these creatures keep from yanking your hair out??!!

Yep, it now sounds like your one of those Crazy Goat people like the rest of us here!
I do about exactly the same thing as you every year!

CaliannG · #7 02/18/11, 11:08 PM

Thorazine helps. Trust me. ~smiles beatifically~

It's that time of year, and you will find ALL of us with aching backs from checking hoo-haas multiple times per day, and slurred speech from the sleep deprivation...and, of course, hairless, because the doe who gave EVERY INDICATION of popping withing the next 12 hours is walking around 48 hours later just as content as can be while the doe you KNEW wasn't bred has triplets following along behind her that she had underneath your truck.

Have you asked your doctor about how Xanax can help you?

momagoat61 · #8 02/19/11, 12:17 AM

I just sit back and laugh at all ya'll.. God ya'll make my day.!. I'm just so glad ya'll are able to do this baby watch stuff and I can just sit and read and live through you all because I been there and done that and well in all honesty I finally gave up before there was no return to my sanity. Now make darn sure you all post baby picture's !

luvzmybabz · #9 02/19/11, 01:08 AM

I had two girls due to pop anytime there was 2 weeks of checking during a truly bizarre weather pattern from the high 70s to snow back to the high 60 then snow again with some of the coldest weather in 35 years. I would swear the older one was at least 2 weeks ahead of the younger doe. Back end checks until my four year old had begun approaching them from behind not seeing any goo would stand up and call " all good mom". The day after the second snow storm one die was just off a bit and older die was bullying her so I took her into barn and made myself a place to relax in the hay, finally 6 hours later a single doeling I thought for sure there would be at least 2 so we brought the other Dow inti the barn and j was in cleaning myself up from midwifery when hubbie came in "baby" and threw a towel wrapped bundle at me and ran back out the door within 5 minutes he has back in with #2 and then sent #3 in with son. He said that 10 minutes before the first baby she had been standing at the fence waiting for their feeding that pen is the last to be fed but hubbie realized something was wrong when he did not see her by the fence. As she always stands and waits fir him. So I watched these goats through 2 horrible storms with sub zero wind chills actually thought they were going to have them during the second storm so spent 3 hours layered in more layers of cloths then I can count. Just to have them have their babies with 2 hours from beginning or one to the end of the other. I swear they were laughing by the end of that day.

stormywood · #10 02/19/11, 06:13 AM

LMAO, glad to see it is not just me. Pretty bad when you know what a goats tootie looks like more than your own. Pervs, the bunch of us! I think I MUST look into that zanax thing!

nehimama · #11 02/19/11, 08:05 AM

"Butt Check Duty" LOL! That's a good one. I'll have to add it to my lexicon. Doing the same darned thing here. One day she's carrying the kids high, and the next day she's hollowed out at the hips & her belly nearly touches the ground. Soft ligaments one check, and strong ligaments on the next check. AAARRRGGGHHH!