Lambing/Breeding 2014-Parsnip

[Pioneer Chicken]

Mine think they not only need more petting, but hip massages too when they are getting uncomfortable...sometimes think I need more arms and hands...they like to lean on me too with their heads up for scratches...guess mine are super spoilt!!

Wow, that sounds just like my goats. They get more spoiled with pettings and scratching their favorite areas as kidding season gets closer. I think they know they've got me because whenever I stop, they just nudge me or nibble or look so pathetic till I start petting them again. Yeah, I'm with you on the needing of more hands; it's hard trying to pet three goats with two hands and it doesn't help when the one not being petted starts using one of the above ways I mentioned to get me back to petting her! LOL

 

[Parsnip]

UPDATE HERE
Wendy has more orange-y discharge. It's all hard and crusty now, but I can tell it was drippy at one point, because there is some dried orange crusty stuff on her udder and back legs.
Not a lot, just a little spot here and there.
The pictures are kind of up close and personal, so sorry about that!
Also her vulva was more reddish today
SOON?

 

[purplequeenvt]

Her udder doesn't look quite ready. Sometimes a ewe will lamb and then the udder will fill, but usually the udder gets tight and full right before the ewe lambs.

 

[Parsnip]

Yeah I'm just waiting for that part :/
It's just been consistently growing bit by bit the past month or so. Nothin' big yet!

(gosh is that orange stuff normal? I'm so nervous about it. hope it doesn't mean something bad...)

 

[bonbean01]

Glad I'm not the only one who makes big babies out of them all...except the ram. Feel sorry for him that he doesn't get the loving, but last time I felt sorry for him and went to scratch under his chin, he put his head down quickly and tried to butt me through the fence. He is the reason we had to get an electric zapper prod...took two zaps and now keeps his distance from us ONLY if we're carrying it. We did all the things right in raising him, but still...he is a butthead.

 

[bonbean01]

I've never seen the orange stuff and have no clue. Hopefully all is well!!!!

 

[Kitsara]

but still...he is a butthead.

Quite literally

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

Pretty sure the orange stuff is normal!!! Probably the cervix thining!!!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

No idea on the orange stuff.

I wish she would hurry up and lamb already!!!!! LOL

STILL WAITING

 

[Parsnip]

Nothing going on with Wendy yet!
ALTHOUGH
Her daughter, MaryEllen, has some changes goin' on!
For a while she's been developing a tiny udder, and today her vulva was different.
I thought she was just in heat for the longest time, but I assume that there is a lamb in there somewhere!

First, here's Wendy...


AND MaryEllen (warning of possible sheep lady parts, but we've all seen those right?)

The tip has started pointing up. Does that mean anything?
Wendy's sure isn't like that!


I HOPE THAT'S A BABY BUMP. She's so hairy though.