March Kidding--Anyone due and want to wait with me??

[Missy]

21 days as of yesterday and Tippy did not return to heat!!

Which gives her a due date of March 19th!

 

[chicken pickin]

I am having a hard time figuring out if and when my doelings are going in to heat. Ive been trying to keep track of subtle changes in behavior and appearance and sound and so far nothing seems to fall into a regular pattern. When it is time to breed I need to take them to do a driveway breeding, the breeder they came from said they could do it that way or house them for a month but I don't want to have them housed for a month. I have 2 NDs and they are about 8 months old. Im trying to figure out their cycle so I can keep track and breed the larger doe in a few months. Im not sure if I will figure it out.

 

[Missy]

I would take a rag to the buck's house and rub the buck down with the rag especially on the bucks face and front legs, then hang it in the corner of the does stall or on the fence, just somewhere visible. When the girls are in heat, they will generally stand near and or love on the rag.

 

[beanmcnulty]

We are due mid-March (hopefully), my first doe is an 18-mo old ND, had her and brother wether since they were 3 months old. Her sire was a Buttin'heads goat and the prospective future sire of her babies was one as well. Her name is The BMC What are u looking at (should have been "BHC" but the handwriting was bad on my ADGA paperwork) and his Buttin'heads Peace Process. She is a blue eyed black and white and he a brown eye light buckskin. It looks like a lot of his babies come out buckskin, I gather this is a dominant trait? I plan on sending in a pregnancy test in a few weeks to Biotracking, I sent an email to them and never got a reply, does anyone know how you receive results from them? Anyway, we are very excited and hope she has "settled"

 

[Riverside Fainters]

I am all in for march waiting as of today!! Vet checked and Ms. Izzy and Mr. Rampage are due to expect at least one!!

 

[Missy]

Congrats to both of you!! Yay!

 

[Southern by choice]

None of mine are due til April... can I still wait with ya?

Kidding threads are fun! Funny how we get all excited on the breeding day... then it is the boring wait game... then all giddy 2 weeks before they're due.

 

[Missy]

Absolutely Wait with us!!

Kidding threads are fun! Funny how we get all excited on the breeding day... then it is the boring wait game... then all giddy 2 weeks before they're due.

Which is why a looooong kidding thread is necessary. It keeps us all focused and entertained. You see, as our dear goats progress, we can start guessing how many each will kid, gender guessing, thoughts of what we may want to keep, plans for the rest of the babies, making sure we have everything we need for the impending kidding, preparing for bottle feeding or milking or taming of the feral little kids lol.....

 

[20kidsonhill]

Hello: We are also waiting. Not very patiently though. We have some due in February and should be 5 due in March. Should be lots of baby pics on here from the way it sounds.

 

[goatboy1973]

My season was spread out a bit (young herdsire and 1st time brood does). I will have kids in late Feb., March, and early April. So I guess I'll be waiting for March kids also.