My 1st Kidding Thread-Yabba A Nigerian Dwarf- QUAD PICTURES PG 9

[pridegoethb4thefall]

Just a few minutes after midnight here, guess that makes it officially Sunday now. Just went out to make my last check on Yabba till the morning...

She was just lying on her tummy, sleeping, I think. I walked up to her and she stood up, so I did a quick check, and of course, she walked off all quick like, so I just got a quick peek at her rear. There was a tiny bit of fresh looking blood on her vulva, very small amount, nothing I think means anything is wrong, but still... And then I saw her squat to pee, and almost nothing came out, but then a stringy gob of white goo dripped out.

I think she has been listening to other does and is fully aware of the 'Doe Code' and is implementing every single commandment. I hope she follows the last one about giving me beautiful doelings....


C'mon Yabba! Gimme some babies!!!

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

Come on Yabba, we all need to see more baby pictures.

 

[pridegoethb4thefall]

Morning chores done- fed the horses, and the chickens, then went out to visit my little herd. Everyone was very excited to see me coming with fresh hay, but that was nothing compared to how happy and friendly they get when they see the 'big white bucket'!!

They all know the 'big white bucket' means Grain!!! YUMM! Its really helped to get the new doelings to be less shy and now they eat right out of my hand, and climb all over me to get it! I love that...

Yabba was first at the door waiting for her grain, for her, the hay didnt exist! She loves her grain! But she is so mild mannered, she will back off the minute one of the babies goes for the grain.

So, no babies from our Yabba yet....day 146 today. Still a bit of fresh white goo today, but Im sick of seeing that now- I wanna see Amber goo, followed by BABIES!! NOW!!

Yabbas belly is soo wide, she waddles and wiggles when she walks! I swear, her belly has easily doubled in size in the last week! Hmmmm, maybe she will suprise us with triplets after all?? That would be cool, then I could pull one to bottle feed so I would have a super friendly baby. Gonna have to think about it, not sure if I can handle midnight feedings, I DO love my sleep (when I can get it!).

Gonna go search out bottle feeding schedules for baby nigerian dwarfs....

 

[RainySunday]

Hope she goes soon for you! For bottle feeding NDs, we do 3x/day, one at around 8am, one around 2pm, and the last one at 10pm. (The first day we try to keep it as close to 8 hours apart as we can, so it's generally more like 6am, 2pm, 10pm, but I am not an early morning person so I shift it a couple hours after the first day or two.)

Have fun!

 

[cutie123600]

I have pygmy mixes that I feed on that same schedule. It works great for me because I can get up for school feed them, go to school, come home for lunch feed them, and then feed them again before I go to bed.

They are doing really well with it too.

 

[pridegoethb4thefall]

So, that schedule (3x's a day, then nothing in the middle of the night) will work for newborns? I thought newborns had to eat more often?

If not, thats great! I can totally handle that schedule!

Just did a check on Yabba- she is still very defensive of her hind end, but she now has clearish white goo, and more comes out every time she squats to pee. Babies must be sitting on her bladder pretty hard since she pee's often, but not alot of pee comes out.

 

[cutie123600]

Yep, my Nigerian/lamancha mix did that for about one day and then had her triplets at 3 in the morning the next day. But every goat is different. Yabba sounds like my other doe though, she had me waiting for about a week and had her triplets unexpectedly. Same goo and everything.

I have one bottle baby I have feed since birth and at 10pm I let him eat all he wanted for the first week so he could hold through the night. Now he's doing great with the whole schedule.

 

[RainySunday]

Yep, all of our newborns are only 3x/day. The only one we did differently was our bummer baby this year. He needed some major convalescing, so he ate more like every two-three hours during the day, and then went all night from11pm until about 7am. He is two weeks old now, and out with his sisters and has been on threex/day for the last week/10days.

 

[heathen]

They dont have to be bottle fed to be uber friendly. You just have to play with them and be around them more. I personally give a 1 am bottle for my bottle babies If I have one. It dont make sense to me that they wouldnt need a nite bottle. They nurse moma at nitethe first couple weeks. I dont know of any animal that nurses only three times a day from birth on and just increase the amount. I didnt do this with calves or horses either. I know the goat lives and takes the bottle (better) in the am but they were just starved over nite. I onlyh have one goat who is not uber friendly and she is one I got at a sale barn a few weeks ago. She will come up to me and take treats but dont like being touched. she wont run far when I do touch her and She takes treats from my hand now. When I first got her I had to throw them to her. If there is another reason to bottle feed than just wanting a friendly goat I am 100% for it,or even if you are wanting the experience with bottle babies. But it is not necessary to bottle feed to have friendly goats. If you spend the same amount of time with them that you would if you were bottle feeding them just playing with them they will still be friendly. I have goats that the old owners had to corner in a barn and use panels to catch them and they were scared to death of humans. 7 months later they will litterally come lay in my lap when I am playing with the new babies trying to get a treat. Now they will not go up to strangers like the bottle babies unless they have treats;-) The more time you spend with them the friendlier they will be. And if you have human kids to pack the babies around you will have nothing to worry about as far as uber friendly. Of course this is just my opinion (whats that saying opinons are like_______ everyone has one....and there are many heated debates on this just like on the dehorning thing. ( I am for dehorning but my Jeff says its cruel and awfull) even though we have had to cut holes out of the fences that the goats stuck their heads through.

 

[pridegoethb4thefall]

Sigh.... Day 147 and nnnnooooooo babies. Plenty of white goo, sure, but Im starting to think the goo is just her way of teasing me. She probably isnt even preggers, just fat! J/K!


I agree, Heathen- I will probably leave Yabbas kids for her to raise, but my kids and I will be visiting/handeling them alot every day, and probably bring them inside for some playtime with the human family, away from Yabba. I hope they turn out super friendly!