Beginnings of labor?

[Cooperkeeper]

BlueMoon,
I have been following your story and have been anxious right along with you. I can feel your frustration!! I do know my girls (both FF) due dates, but its not making me feel any less crazy. Seems like I have talked to or read about several experienced goat people having difficult kidding seasons this year and it is not helping my anxiety level. Sure hope your girl has a smooth delivery very soon. For both your sakes!

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

Hey miss treya is holding onto her lamb still am starting to wonder about a false pregnancy but....willing to wait it out Bc a later due date is possible

Thank god Annie is not the only one doing this! I thought for sure she was
Perhaps they are somehow conspiring together and will have there babys at the same time? >_>

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

BlueMoon,
I have been following your story and have been anxious right along with you. I can feel your frustration!! I do know my girls (both FF) due dates, but its not making me feel any less crazy. Seems like I have talked to or read about several experienced goat people having difficult kidding seasons this year and it is not helping my anxiety level. Sure hope your girl has a smooth delivery very soon. For both your sakes!

My anxiety is currently turning into curiosity as to why shes been acting like this for over a month now. I cant seem to find anything like it in my research and I even have a lot of people stumped including the vet and breeder.
Im sure shes just dealing with some serious hormones like the vet said, but still...
My ewe just had her lamb and we didnt even know she was pregnant, that happened very quick and smoothly once we knew what was going on, so I am hoping this will be the same and the strange prolonged behaviour means nothing.
Im sure your does will be much more easy then my little doe, shes just got some issues at the moment

 

[Queen Mum]

Here's the thing. She is angry that she has to be pregnant for so long. As a result she is in that wishful thinking stage of pregnancy called, "when can I put these babies down". You see, goats are horrible gossips and they are all capricious. One of the other girls told her a terrible lie and said that if she wished hard enough and went through all the preparation stages of labor she could trick her little goat body into thinking labor should start RIGHT NOW! She is just young enough to have believed the lie. Now all the goats in the neighborhood are laughing behind her back. BUT since no one really knows her due date she is going to prove them all wrong and keep it up till she really does go into labor. They she will show them who is going to have the last laugh...

Of course, one of the older, more experienced goats has been keeping track on a secret goat calendar in the barn somewhere and knows when her real due date is and will not tell another soul. She will wisely support your lovely little girl when the time comes and laugh right along with her. Unless she is a mean goat...

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

Here's the thing. She is angry that she has to be pregnant for so long. As a result she is in that wishful thinking stage of pregnancy called, "when can I put these babies down". You see, goats are horrible gossips and they are all capricious. One of the other girls told her a terrible lie and said that if she wished hard enough and went through all the preparation stages of labor she could trick her little goat body into thinking labor should start RIGHT NOW! She is just young enough to have believed the lie. Now all the goats in the neighborhood are laughing behind her back. BUT since no one really knows her due date she is going to prove them all wrong and keep it up till she really does go into labor. They she will show them who is going to have the last laugh...

Of course, one of the older, more experienced goats has been keeping track on a secret goat calendar in the barn somewhere and knows when her real due date is and will not tell another soul. She will wisely support your lovely little girl when the time comes and laugh right along with her. Unless she is a mean goat...

I just laughed so hard I cried. If I could hug you, I would, because that, THAT was awesome!!

I totally blame my doe Nutmeg, I totally blame her, shes the one who lied to Annie!

 

[Cooperkeeper]

Any news?

 

[BlueMoonFarms]

Any news?

Well...Im not sure.
Yesterday she stared eating her hay again, I saw some light brown stuff leaking from her hind end, she STOPPED pawing at the ground, and she STOPPED screaming for me, her udder is tight again, and her ligaments are slightly soft, but not as soft as they have been in the past...
Im not sure if that means shes getting close and my goat is just the weirdest creature on the face of the planet, or if she has finally realized pawing will get her no where fast.

 

[promiseacres]

maybe soon???

 

[Missy]

Here's the thing. She is angry that she has to be pregnant for so long. As a result she is in that wishful thinking stage of pregnancy called, "when can I put these babies down". You see, goats are horrible gossips and they are all capricious. One of the other girls told her a terrible lie and said that if she wished hard enough and went through all the preparation stages of labor she could trick her little goat body into thinking labor should start RIGHT NOW! She is just young enough to have believed the lie. Now all the goats in the neighborhood are laughing behind her back. BUT since no one really knows her due date she is going to prove them all wrong and keep it up till she really does go into labor. They she will show them who is going to have the last laugh...

Of course, one of the older, more experienced goats has been keeping track on a secret goat calendar in the barn somewhere and knows when her real due date is and will not tell another soul. She will wisely support your lovely little girl when the time comes and laugh right along with her. Unless she is a mean goat...

 

[Missy]

I personally think she is trying to add to the Doe Code. When you are good and fed up with her antics, she is going to secretly and quietly pop out her kids in the middle of the night, when no one is around to witness it.