Riverside Fainters
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Some goats bag early, especially FF, when was your buck with the does?
March Kidding--Anyone due and want to wait with me??
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MissFitFarm
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thats cool thanksFias co Farm has a great website! Also, here's a link to a goat gestation calculator. It's been a great help to me.http://www.goatbiology.com/animations/gestcalculator.html
MissFitFarm
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what is FF? the buck was in with them Oct. 20th -31 st.
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FF just means First Freshener....the first time she has babies.
MissFitFarm
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ok I'm new to the kidding stuff.
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Missy
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One month to go! I am getting so excited....And impatient!
MissFitFarm
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I am too
but also scared cause I will be a first time granny, and one of my does will be a first time mommy.... 
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I've got three due in March. My buck went in Oct 1 and bred them all several times over the next few days. Since he stopped trying after a while and he's our only buck I let him stay with the girls. We are picking up a new buck this weekend so it's the boot for both of them until next Fall!
Anyway, two of my does are experienced, good-sized Nigerians: Toula (my herd queen) is at least a fourth freshener and Melina at least a third. These gals are good knee-high does with wide-set bodies and have already had twins and triplets on their own.
The one I worry about is my tiny doe Persephone. She's about three or four inches shorter and is the only disbudded doe so she gets picked on. I believe a parasite or genetic issue as a kid may have made her small before we ever picked her up. She's our little bottle baby. Persephone kidded a single buckling last Summer without any trouble. We had no idea she had been bred and when she had some discharge I--never having seen a kidding before--assumed she was in heat. This buckling came out fine and grew just as fast as any other baby.
The problem is now Persephone is as wide as a house, already putting on a bigger udder than the other two. I'm terrified of my baby having multiples! She's in my profile pic, the little black one and she's not really much bigger today. Am I just a typical paranoid goat lady? She did kid without incident last year and that was even out of typical breeding season. Are multiples usually smaller than singles?
Anyway, two of my does are experienced, good-sized Nigerians: Toula (my herd queen) is at least a fourth freshener and Melina at least a third. These gals are good knee-high does with wide-set bodies and have already had twins and triplets on their own.
The one I worry about is my tiny doe Persephone. She's about three or four inches shorter and is the only disbudded doe so she gets picked on. I believe a parasite or genetic issue as a kid may have made her small before we ever picked her up. She's our little bottle baby. Persephone kidded a single buckling last Summer without any trouble. We had no idea she had been bred and when she had some discharge I--never having seen a kidding before--assumed she was in heat. This buckling came out fine and grew just as fast as any other baby.
The problem is now Persephone is as wide as a house, already putting on a bigger udder than the other two. I'm terrified of my baby having multiples! She's in my profile pic, the little black one and she's not really much bigger today. Am I just a typical paranoid goat lady? She did kid without incident last year and that was even out of typical breeding season. Are multiples usually smaller than singles?
