Martok did it!

Dreamgoat Annie · #1 10/30/12, 06:40 PM

Katy passed day 21 after breeding on Sunday. She's in with Kerla, who is largely ignoring her (because all three of my black Nubian girls are in heat and tempting him through the fence).

So, it looks as though Martok's one short shot on the fly did the trick! I am SO glad. I dreaded the thought of trying to restrain her if she came back in heat. :o)

Sue

Minelson · #2 10/30/12, 06:55 PM

Yay for Martock! He must be the "drive bye" type

Dreamgoat Annie · #3 10/30/12, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Minelson

Yay for Martock! He must be the "drive bye" type :)

<LOL> Actually, this is his second remarkable feat. He also impregnated Big Mama through the fence a few years ago. I saw it happen and thought, "No. He couldn't have really connected much less do it that fast" and I penned her up for the rest of her heat cycle but didn't lute her. Sure enough, he did.

He hasn't had a chance to breed many does but apparently he shoots very healthy wigglers.

Sue

Dreamgoat Annie · #4 11/01/12, 01:27 PM

Yessssss! Katy didn't come back in heat. And she's still in with Kerla, whose pen is maybe 35 feet from our bedroom window--and I can see them from the computer where I work, so if she'd come in, even if she was cooperative (ha!), I'd have known it.

(doing the happy dance and hoping for a single buckling to wether) Sue

Backfourty,MI. · #5 11/01/12, 06:42 PM

Good job Martok! I hope you have at least 1 buckling to wether if that's what your wanting.

Dreamgoat Annie · #6 11/01/12, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Backfourty,MI.

Good job Martok! I hope you have at least 1 buckling to wether if that's what your wanting.

Thanks!

The main reason I'm breeding Katy is because she's precociously milking on one side and I hope freshening clears up whatever hormonal weirdness is causing that. Milking one teensy teat every few days and getting a little over a cup of milk for my trouble is not fun, though at least she's good-natured about it.

Katy has a nub of non-functional supernumerary teat about an inch from the teat with milk in it, so under normal circumstances I wouldn't breed her. So even though we'll keep any kids she produces, I'm hoping for a boy or boys to wether. That way if the supernumerary teat thing is hereditary (her sire, dam, and sisters have good teats), it ends with Katy.

Sue

LoneStrChic23 · #7 11/01/12, 08:09 PM

Yay!!

So good to KNOW! I hate not knowing...... I have one doe who has silent heats & never flirts in the normal way, so tracking her heats is very hard.... One other doe is cystic & has weird cycles.... They both passed the time for another cycle, so I'm hoping they are bred, but with those two I have to pull blood

Thankfully the rest of my girls I can just do the happy dance after the typical 21 day waiting period

I must have missed it, but why was it only a one shot wonder on the fly?

Dreamgoat Annie · #8 11/01/12, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by LoneStrChic23

Yay!! :) So good to KNOW! I hate not knowing...... I have one doe who has silent heats & never flirts in the normal way, so tracking her heats is very hard.... One other doe is cystic & has weird cycles.... They both passed the time for another cycle, so I'm hoping they are bred, but with those two I have to pull blood :(

Thankfully the rest of my girls I can just do the happy dance after the typical 21 day waiting period :D

I must have missed it, but why was it only a one shot wonder on the fly?

This was the original thread: The continuing saga of Katy, Warrior Princess

Let it suffice to say she was definitely not receptive, even though she was in roaring heat. Kerla never made contact. Martok managed to leap on very briefly, just once.

The baffling thing is that she let the wethers jump her--and she didn't seem to be afraid of the bucks. She simply didn't want to be bred. :o/

Sue