Kidding question

[Antoinette]

Hi, I have enjoyed reading the threads in this site. Lots of helpful info out there.

I have a question, just out of curiousity. Alot of us are kid watching, and I was wondering if any of you have kidding stories that went totally against all the "signs". Such as does that kidded with rock hard ligaments, or no udder, or even that you had no idea they were even pregnant. I just love a good kidding story anyway!

[mary,tx]

Callie Jean was one of our first goats. We brought her home mid-summer, and were told that she had lost her kid that year. She was dry, presumably unbred. The first weekend of November, right on cue with the first cold front of the year, she dropped twin does. I'd commented to one of the boys that morning that we needed to cut her grain back a little because she was looking a little fat. I had NO clue she was even pregnant the day she dropped kids. :no: I'm getting a little better at telling. lol.

[AnnaS]

Not really against the "signs", but against vet advice... One of my does had a brown discharge that started a month before kidding. Vet said the kids had died in utero and the doe might have a difficult delivery.

One of the "died in utero" kids got Reserve Jr. Togg at her first show and the other is 40 lbs at 2 months. Never been so happy for a misdiagnosis!

[dale anne]

My nubian Maddie was bred to when we got her and we werent sure of the date that we were given in fact she didnt look pregnant at all really just a lil healthy lookin...well she started to bag out so yeah she was pregnant...we watched her and watched her figured she was due around the date we were given of march 7...well march 7 came and went..on march 29th I was watching her like a hawk cause i knew the guy we bought her from couldnt have been that far off...well hubby and I was thinking about going to the auction in town and I wanted to check maddie just one more time...hubby said she aint bleeting,shes running around,her ligiments are still tight,shes not running or seeming to be in labor lets go...well I insisted I chech her first...I went out to the birthing pen and she was standing in the corner eating I started to walk away and heard a real faint bahh...I stopped and looked again behind her were 2 brand new still messy bucklings!...she dropped them right on the ground and ignored them....we got them cleaned up and had to hold her down in order for them to suck...this was her first kidding[that we know of] and after showing her what needed to be done she made a great mother!....I am watching over to of my pygmys as we speak...they are due with in a week or two but my one is having discharge and very loose in the tail..starry eyed and wont stay still long so i'm thinking she is going to go early...wish me luck...dale anne

[Antoinette]

I do wish you luck and I know what you mean. We raise Boer and percentage Boer goats, we have 24 does.......7 which are due anyday. I think I am going insane with the waiting. My husband and kids have giving up on me. Every couple of hours I am finding the girls, checking ligaments, lifting tails, feeling udders....and if I find nothing interesting there, then I step back and watch their actions. Sometimes I think I am hallucating, because I swear I will see some discharge or an udder that seems tighter, so I run and get my husband and he sees nothing... He's told me not to bother him again unless I see a hoof. lol The girls are used to it by now, but they get the funniest looks on their faces when I come around now.

I have one Pygmy doe, who is due too. She is my "pet", I had her bred to a friend's Pygmy buck. She too has had the loose stools (she is the only one who has had that) and every night she is running around rubbing fences, gates ect. I can hardly feel her ligaments. But she isn't very big, but it's her first time. She was a bottle baby, so I am scared that she might not accept her babies. She is so spoiled!