Is my doe pregnant?llily is in labor !!!

[luvmypets]

Beautiful, congrats!

 

[Goatgirl47]

She's adorable! Congratulations!

 

[Latestarter]

She's a real beauty! Congrats!

 

[norseofcourse]

Soooo as I am new and don't know much about pregnancy. How would I know if my doe is pregnant? What are tell tell signs? One of my Pygmy's was getting big and I thought I felt the baby kick, but now she suddenly is normal size???? i'm confused

You might want to start a new thread about your doe, and include some pictures, you'd be more likely to get some good feedback.

Is her udder getting larger/fuller? That's usually a good sign she's pregnant. Getting wide is usually a sign, too, but how full the rumen is can also change how wide they look. Close to the end of a pregnancy, the kid(s) can also 'drop', settling lower and getting into position to be born, and that can make the doe look less wide (at least that's the way with sheep and horses, hopefully a goat person can chime in and confirm or correct this).

If you have a buck running with your does full time, you will have random pregnancies. You may want to consider penning him except for when you want to breed, and if not you'll want to get real observant of your does, and learn their signs of when they are pregnant and getting close. There are vaccinations you should give about a month before kids are born, and there's things you should have ready in case of trouble during kidding.

If you don't want to breed, you can wether the buck. If you do want to breed because you want milk - that's yet another reason to pen the buck separately, as I often hear that a buck in with milking does can make the milk taste bad.

Good luck!

 

[Mason&lily]

Ok so the little doeling has problems in her front legs her hoofs curl under but our vet told us to give her BoSe and splint her legs to help her but they should start straightening out. But we might take her in to see our vet just so he can take a good look and make sure she is ok. But I also have some horrible news one of my does (that could've been pregnant , we took her to get breed) died today.

 

[Goatgirl47]

I'm so sorry about your doe! Do you have any idea of how she died (so maybe you can prevent something like that happening again in the future)?

 

[Mason&lily]

We have no clue last night she was her usually troublesome self (she is an escape artist) she ate all her food and her hay, and all the trees she was trimming while running around. She had no scours ether it was out of the blue. Not only is it a lost of her but also the lost of her future baby.​

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry for your loss. Actually a multiple loss as it were.

 

[Jenn27]

We have no clue last night she was her usually troublesome self (she is an escape artist) she ate all her food and her hay, and all the trees she was trimming while running around. She had no scours ether it was out of the blue. Not only is it a lost of her but also the lost of her future baby.​

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I'm so sorry.