Blazing Acres 1st Kidding Thread:samssimonsays olive surprise!

[samssimonsays]

Last night we bred our first goat!

Olive was in heat and willing

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[luvmypets]

So excited!

 

[babsbag]

My girls will probably all be in heat this week since it is raining and they will melt in the rain and won't even think about being courted.

 

[Hens and Roos]

will be following for sure!

We won't start breeding until Nov 1st.....no Feb kids here, even later March can be cold!

 

[samssimonsays]

My girls will probably all be in heat this week since it is raining and they will melt in the rain and won't even think about being courted.

Probably!

We had wanted mid March but heat cycles just didn't work out that way. Oh well! I have no clue if he did it right.... it was his first time and all He was having troubles at first as she wanted to sniff his butt at the same time as he was hers.

 

[samssimonsays]

will be following for sure!

We won't start breeding until Nov 1st.....no Feb kids here, even later March can be cold!

I know! I am nervous but my barn stays pretty warm with them in there thankfully and I have a fire proof heat lamp to use.

 

[babsbag]

By March I am thinking summer again and worried that the days will be too warm for the cool Spring nights. Very happy to live in CA

 

[Ferguson K]

Good luck friend!

 

[samssimonsays]

Thank you from the "southerners" My biggest fear is that nasty frost bite or losing a kid to getting chilled. Tilda, my Snubian, lost around 1/3 or her ears to frost bite born the beginning of March. But I also do not want too hot either as that can be just as dangerous as I have been watching and reading. SO MANY THINGS TO CONSIDER!!!

Put Olive and Roscoe together again last night and NOTHING. Not sure if it is a a or a yet. another month will tell!

 

[samssimonsays]

Olive went back into heat two weeks after being bred to Roscoe so I bred them again. He also bred Tilda the day after so that leaves us with April 11th and 12th due dates for Olive and Tilda as well. I placed Scarlet in with Rebel now hoping he will get her bred and Roscoe is still in with May, Olive and Tilda with no signs of interest in them. we will have babies from all four does in late march- april!