Not sure wether to be excited or scared spitless...

[blujenes]

Somebody actually is preggers! Everyone got out and got into the alfalfa pellets (nobody's bloated) and I though that was why she was looking huge today. She had a gooey undercarriage, but I though Spice, who was in heat a few days ago, had brought Andy into heat. Well, Andy had gotten in with a buck about, oh, five months ago. We'd kept careful watch, then decided she wasn't pregnant. Now the baby's dropping, and I felt it squirming around in there. I checked her more closely, and her undercarriage isn't just gooey, it's swollen, far more than just the little bit of swelling that comes with heat. I think she lost her mucus plug, it's whitish and thick, not amber birth goo.

It might just be my imagination, but I think her ligaments are loosening just a bit. No udder yet. I didn't know goats could be so very good at hiding babies! This is the second time she's hid the baby from us! Last time we didn't know until there were hooves sticking out her rear end, though. It's funny, both times her breeding wasn't because we wanted it, it was her somehow getting in with the boy.

We know what buck she got in with, and these are gonna be strange babies! The sire is a classic red nubian with long hound dog ears, the roman nose, and goreous white moonspots. The dam, Andy, is a white Alpine (half lamancha) looking goat, with stand ears, black stripes.

If you think about it, this is going to be a very very strange baby! The combinations are endless! It could look like Andy, only red with white moonspots, or it could have the roman nose, apline ears, alpine stripes, and the sire's coloring.

We've been feeding alfalfa pellets, and some alfalfa, along with Noble Goat goat chow. We don't really have anything for kidding, exept a back stall for her to do it in. Anyone know anything else we need to do that I forgot about? Sorry I'm freaking, this is the first time I've actually been there and had to help, last time Andy was staying a friend's farm when it happened. Andy's my first, favorite, pet-ish goat, and I don't want anything bad to happen to her.

Thanks for reading my nervous ravings!

[CaliannG]

Congratulations! And welcome to the Goat Forum game everyone HATES to play called, "When is her due date?!?" You are now going to be treated to days, maybe weeks, of sleepless nights, staring at the hoo-haa of your goat, clumsily feeling around her back end and saying, "Do they FEEL softer?" and jumping and racing to the barn every time she so much as mutters.

Stock up on coffee and booze; you will need both.

[dozedotz]

Just so you know, every time I read one of these "how could she be pregnant, we don't know for sure, what is the due date" items, I feel SO MUCH BETTER!! Thank you for posting and remember that you are not alone running up to the barn at 3 am because you thought you heard something!! You are not alone....

[dozedotz]

Oh, almost forgot...I vote for the Nubian ears...anything with Nubian ears is beautiful!
spots work, too...

[Backfourty,MI.]

Congratulations! read the stickey at the top of the forum "Pregnancy, kidding & milking " & you'll do fine & so will Andy! Get the camera ready then wait & wait!