Black beauty's kidding thread!

[Goatgirl47]

How is Black Beauty today?

 

[SandDherds]

Okay so sorry for no updates I was trying to get a few things ready and had to get feed and I'm treating lucas with some things cause he has scours.


Update
BB is showing no signs of going soon! even my doe who is not due for 26 days or so is bagging up and her ligs have been almost gone for a few days! BB is on day 147 tommorow I believe. Her udder hasn't filled at all from what I can see. Her ligs are soft-ish but definitely still there. No more discharge that I have seen only signs I have seen is her rolling around being uncomfortable and grunting and biting and looking at her sides when she is lying down. She still has an appetite so it's just a waiting game she could go any day now. But on the bright side I am gonna have Friday and all weekend to myself nothing planned family is not at my house anymore they are making a trip tommorow morning and don't get back till saturday! So i m going to just relax and wait for babies! I'll update with pictures tonight and tomorrow morning. I'm getting excited


Also do you guys think I should do a live stream? I think it would be fun and save me trips for the barn and you guys could watch her. Let me know if you think I should

 

[Goatgirl47]

Also do you guys think I should do a live stream? I think it would be fun and save me trips for the barn and you guys could watch her. Let me know if you think I should

I sure do! I love watching the live streams.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Sounds like fun!

 

[SandDherds]

Okay I just got the kidding pen set up its small but it's all I could do.

And okay I'll set it up tonight I thought it would be fun too. Saves me trips to the barn!

 

[SandDherds]

Okay thought I would update unfortunately I haven't got a can set up outside in the barn I have just been really busy trying to fix thing and I was out in the barn all night! First I found out she would squeeze through the kidding pen. Then she was pressing her head against the wall so I immediately checked her ligs and the were soft not gone but pretty soft. At about 9:30 I went out to the barn and right when she stood up she stretched that normal though but then she stretched and stretched I counted 11 times in about 5 minutes and 4 yawns in about 5 minutes. So I got my stuff and slept in the barn all night even with baby goats and lambs jumping all over me and I woke up at about 1:30 and checked her. Her ligs were 100% there! At least I think I was feeling her ligaments her udder still hasn't filled and nothing else has changed though it does look like the babies dropped we are at day 148 almost day 149 so I'll probably be sleeping in the barn agian but it will be worth it I NEED to be there when she kids cause her owner said she almost always had to assist and that when she didn't she would never clean them and she left one of her twins about 2years ago in the sac and he died and she got there just in time to save the other before she suffocated so she said I must be there when she has them or I could loose her or her babies

 

[Latestarter]

I hate to say it, but with mothering "instincts" like that, why is she continually being re-bred? I should think she should be culled out and replaced.

 

[SandDherds]

I hate to say it, but with mothering "instincts" like that, why is she continually being re-bred? I should think she should be culled out and replaced.

I don't know actually if she were mine she probably would have been sold as a pet but I just got her about 2 weeks ago and she was due soon so I will have catch her babies. Her old owner said that she is a great mother just doesn't clean them but she feeds them. I am thinking I'll sell her as a pet at the end of the year when I'm done milking her. So she will be a pet or if she is still milking she can be a milker for a few months and then she will have to be retired.

 

[Latestarter]

Who knows, maybe this time she'll birth just fine and clean the kids, and all will be great...

 

[luvmypets]

Cmon babies!