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10/26/12, 08:17 PM
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Nubians
What do they look like when they are pregnant???
Sorry haven't been on in a long time. Had viruses on computer to take care of and fix fence. LOTS OF FENCE.
Anyway here is a link to Charm, my Nubian. What do you think? Pregnant or not. I had her with the buck but did not see her get bred like all the other girls. This is my first Nubian to every own and she is a first timer, Yearling.
Goats pictures by tpmining - Photobucket
Thanks Y'all.
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10/26/12, 08:20 PM
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Well she sure looks fuller in the belly and to me she looks like she might be preggers. I can't make the pictures bigger my computer is being a brat. But I would say from looking at them she could be, how far along is she if she was pregnant?
Justine
Last edited by GoldenWood Farm; 10/26/12 at 08:25 PM.
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10/26/12, 08:27 PM
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Back in August is when she was exposed to the Buck. I was told Nubian' s will hold the baby's differently. Is that true??
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10/26/12, 08:39 PM
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I have a hard time just looking and saying yes. If swore my GoGurt was bred ended up she is just a fatty. I would send in blood. Also don't personally see how a certain breed would carry a kid differently.
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10/26/12, 08:46 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Draw blood. Send it in for testing. 
It's the *only* way to know for sure. Otherwise, the goats try to mess with your mind.
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10/26/12, 09:09 PM
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they don't do any different than any other breed to me and I've had several breeds. Her udder says no or at least not too far along course most don't really show until they are over 3 months along
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10/26/12, 10:11 PM
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Home | BioTracking.com Pull 3ccs of blood, print off their pregnancy form, fill it out, follow packaging directions & ship it out on a Monday in the smallest (cheapest) flat rate priority box you can. Pregnancy is $6.50 & while you're at it, you can check the CAE box, add in another $4 & get her CAE test done at the same time Don't spend extra $$ on overnight shipping, just use whatever is cheapest.
Or, you can wait 5 months.... Other than that, no way to be sure....
I have a doe who everyone thinks is always pregnant... She just has a good rumen. When she was pregnant the first time, we still couldn't tell by looks. She always looked pretty much the same, despite carrying a 13lb single...
Blood test if the only reliable way to know for sure.
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10/26/12, 10:32 PM
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You can ALWAYS tell they are pregnant when you see tiny hooves sticking out of their hoo-haa...... 
Other than that, just by looking? No way to know.
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10/26/12, 11:31 PM
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My name is not Alice
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Every time I read about someone wondering if their goat is pregnant, I remember back not very long ago when we bought our first two Boers. They were supposed to have been bread when we bought them. They would come in from a day of browsing as wide as a freight train and we would say, "Boy, they sure are starting to show." After about 8 months of that, we started to ask ourselves, "so, just how long have we had these goats?"....
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10/27/12, 02:43 AM
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I have nubians and some of them I swear are carrying 3+ and pop out a single. I will say this I pull blood and send it in just much easier that way however on the day I pull blood I check ho-has and have gotten about 70% accurate I keep track and compare to tests to me a prego ho-ha looks longer even by about 40-50 days. That is usually when I send in blood. However I have an older doe that I have never gotten right I think her ho-ha is just shaped different!!!
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10/27/12, 07:45 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CrownRanch
Every time I read about someone wondering if their goat is pregnant, I remember back not very long ago when we bought our first two Boers. They were supposed to have been bread when we bought them. They would come in from a day of browsing as wide as a freight train and we would say, "Boy, they sure are starting to show." After about 8 months of that, we started to ask ourselves, "so, just how long have we had these goats?"....
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I have a reg. Boer doe and two 3/4 Boer/1/4 Nubian wethers, all of them 7 years old, who look just like that. They have the same ennobled Boer sire, so their basketball sides must have come from daddy's side of the family.
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10/27/12, 08:56 AM
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Going by the way my girls look when they're pregnant, I would say...
Draw blood and send it to biotracking.
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10/27/12, 09:37 AM
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Pretty girl!
Goldenwood if you click the pic it will enlarge.
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10/27/12, 10:05 AM
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I think it's too early to tell by looking at her. I don't see any udder development, and she doesn't particularly look pregnant, but in another month or so that will change if she is.
I raise Nubians. Some it is very, very obvious, and some, not so much. My first doe kidded in the evening the first morning I noticed that she was "putting on a little weight." Her twin always looked like she was carrying three, even when she wasn't bred. Always singled.
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10/27/12, 10:05 AM
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Good looking doe! Did she ever come back into heat? It is obvious when my two are in heat. They are extra loud then!!!
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10/27/12, 11:08 AM
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Goat Servant I did, my computer was just being finicky and not wanting to load it very fast at all  .
Hmmm if she is three months she COULD be pregnant. My gut is leaning towards yes but I have been fooled before. I know it is weird but in my girls I can always tell by how their belly looks right where the udder and the stomach meet. Hard to explain but it always get fuller and flatter unlike open does who remain more sloped. I agree with everyone else though if you really want to know send in some blood.
Justine
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10/27/12, 04:37 PM
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Not a Nubian but shes only 2 months along if she was bred when I thought so no, thats not baby just one fat momma
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10/27/12, 05:58 PM
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Her vulva looks very different than is has looked. Its swollen and not as tight. As for udder development, I cant go by that. This is my second year with more than one goat and my other girls like Isis started making an udder at two months. Sandy started making an udder at three and a half months, than April started making an udder three weeks before birthing. April looked pregnant till three months. At three months she got skinny and bred the buck at four months. Than kidded out a month later.
Charm, I have NEVER seen her in heat and never saw any discharge. She was near a different buck June 23. I was breeding Sandy to a different buck at that time and so charm was near him. At that time I was told she was pregnant. So I put her with him and Sandy to check for a heat and if she came in than I would have bred her to Billy to keep the daughters. But, Billy never bred Sandy even though she was in full blown heat threw three cycles so I took him away and now we are going to get rid of him. He is probably done, to old maybe.
So I saw crusty on her back end last night and thought well she must be in heat. Excalibur is peeing all over the place so it has to be her. I put her in with him and NOPE not interested in her. Must be my 6 month old instead. She still has not had a heat. All the other girls are loud and have LOTS of discharge.
Her belly feels fuller, it doesn't feel mushy like the 6 month old belly. If that makes a difference. What about using a stethoscope?? Has anyone used one of those to here for heart beats?? Just curious if it would work.
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10/27/12, 11:56 PM
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You should be able to start bouncing her to feel anything hard in her belly. The closer she gets to kidding the easier it SHOULD be. Notice I said should? I had a doe who ended up having triplets and I only found out a week before she delivered. I kept thinking she was pregnant and she never kidded close to her due date so I figured her hormones where weird even though sometimes I swore I felt a kid then it would go away. Anyways long story short she kidded with triplet mini bucklings, all three whom where very good at evading my bouncing skills.
Justine
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10/28/12, 09:31 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenWood Farm
You should be able to start bouncing her to feel anything hard in her belly. The closer she gets to kidding the easier it SHOULD be. Notice I said should? I had a doe who ended up having triplets and I only found out a week before she delivered. I kept thinking she was pregnant and she never kidded close to her due date so I figured her hormones where weird even though sometimes I swore I felt a kid then it would go away. Anyways long story short she kidded with triplet mini bucklings, all three whom where very good at evading my bouncing skills.
Justine
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All I can say is it feels heavy not mushy. I don't know if I am doing it right.
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