Our7Wonders
Overrun with beasties
It might be a long wait or maybe not.
Here the ladies together:
Ariel was SUPPOSED to be due on 02/21/11. She's still preggers, so obviously not. Jasmine is SUPPOSED to be due Wednesday. We'll see. The dairy they are from let the buck run with most of the does. They gave me the dates they thought to be most likely for breeding. Either they saw the goat in heat, or saw the buck interested in them not sure they actually witnessed any successful breedings.
But they had a vet out to confirm before we brought them home. Ultrasound done on November 29th confirmed they were each bred. Anyone know how far along a goat must be before an US can pick it up? That might help me narrow dates down too.
Anyayw, here's Ariel's progression. I'm assuming that if she were in heat on September 24th as they suspected, but didn't settle then, that she came around again approximately 3 weeks later. That would put her date two weeks from today - 03/14/11ish. She was looking super pink on her back side, kinda swollen and then now she's back to not so much. She's regressing!!! All part of the Doe Code, I'm sure.
01/27/11
02/17/11
02/28/11
I forgot to get a good overall belly shot, but this one shows it a little more:
Actually, she looks a little smaller to me lately, perhaps she's dropping a bit.
Jasmine's could be due on Wednesday (03/02/11) but since Ariel's date is off, I know Jasmine's could be too. Jasmine has had a little opaque discharge every day or two for a few weeks now. Here's some pics of her:
01/27/11
02/17/11
02/28/11
And this one shows her girth a little better:
I've been checking ligs regularly. Both hardly have any left. So little that I don't know if what I'm feeling now is ligs or not. When I was checking early on I could fee two firm, pencil sized thing-a-ma-jigs coming from the the lower spine area heading towards the tail (but at an angle, kinda live a V, off the spine with the point of the V at the spine and the open end on both sides of the tail) if that makes ANY sense at all. Now I'm feeling NOTHING where the V used to be. Instead, if I totally wrap my fingers around the tail head directly below the tail head is something that feels kinda like stretched elastic like a wide rubber band kinda. That makes even less sense, huh? Anyway, that doo-hickey thing that I'm feeling now is, I'm assuming, the last of the ligaments hanging on. Does that sound like the ligaments? The thing is, it's been like that for a couple weeks now on both of them. Not tremendous udders yet but I had them only a few short weeks before I dried them up that I can't remember what their udders looked like when in milk. I wish I'd have taken some pictures then. In the pic progression you can see they are getting a bit bigger.
So there they are in all there backside glory. Now we just hurry up and wait.
Here the ladies together:
Ariel was SUPPOSED to be due on 02/21/11. She's still preggers, so obviously not. Jasmine is SUPPOSED to be due Wednesday. We'll see. The dairy they are from let the buck run with most of the does. They gave me the dates they thought to be most likely for breeding. Either they saw the goat in heat, or saw the buck interested in them not sure they actually witnessed any successful breedings.
But they had a vet out to confirm before we brought them home. Ultrasound done on November 29th confirmed they were each bred. Anyone know how far along a goat must be before an US can pick it up? That might help me narrow dates down too.
Anyayw, here's Ariel's progression. I'm assuming that if she were in heat on September 24th as they suspected, but didn't settle then, that she came around again approximately 3 weeks later. That would put her date two weeks from today - 03/14/11ish. She was looking super pink on her back side, kinda swollen and then now she's back to not so much. She's regressing!!! All part of the Doe Code, I'm sure.
01/27/11
02/17/11
02/28/11
I forgot to get a good overall belly shot, but this one shows it a little more:
Actually, she looks a little smaller to me lately, perhaps she's dropping a bit.
Jasmine's could be due on Wednesday (03/02/11) but since Ariel's date is off, I know Jasmine's could be too. Jasmine has had a little opaque discharge every day or two for a few weeks now. Here's some pics of her:
01/27/11
02/17/11
02/28/11
And this one shows her girth a little better:
I've been checking ligs regularly. Both hardly have any left. So little that I don't know if what I'm feeling now is ligs or not. When I was checking early on I could fee two firm, pencil sized thing-a-ma-jigs coming from the the lower spine area heading towards the tail (but at an angle, kinda live a V, off the spine with the point of the V at the spine and the open end on both sides of the tail) if that makes ANY sense at all. Now I'm feeling NOTHING where the V used to be. Instead, if I totally wrap my fingers around the tail head directly below the tail head is something that feels kinda like stretched elastic like a wide rubber band kinda. That makes even less sense, huh? Anyway, that doo-hickey thing that I'm feeling now is, I'm assuming, the last of the ligaments hanging on. Does that sound like the ligaments? The thing is, it's been like that for a couple weeks now on both of them. Not tremendous udders yet but I had them only a few short weeks before I dried them up that I can't remember what their udders looked like when in milk. I wish I'd have taken some pictures then. In the pic progression you can see they are getting a bit bigger.
So there they are in all there backside glory. Now we just hurry up and wait.
