Progress with Mia

[Blue Dog Farms]

So Saturday is day 145 for Mia. She has kidded once before. Today I went out and she had a loose stool, so i got a little concerned. I had to leave for a few hours, so when I got home the first thing I did was check on my girl, well I found her to have a little white discharge. Heres some pics, yumi I know but what do you guys think? Could she kid early??

 

[20kidsonhill]

It is normal for them to have that little bit of discharge, 2 or 3 weeks before kidding, but I would say any day now looks about right. Congratulations, I am sending you healthy kidding vibs.

 

[Blue Dog Farms]

Thanks! Shes dropped today I cant wait!! Hoping for twins but as long as everyones healthy I will be happy The diarhea has cleared up and her bottom is clean now. Shes happily munching on her favorite, peanut hay yum

 

[Goatherd]

I've only had two does kid, but from my memory, when they dropped, kids came in less than 24 hours.

 

[Blue Dog Farms]

Do they generaly go before day 150? Shes still having just white discharge, no amber goo. She ate her dinner so Im thinking it probably wont be tonight, but her pen is ready just in case. I dont have her closed in though because I dont want to stress her. I think shes going to do fine, shes a pretty hardy girl and very smart but this is MY first time lol so I cant help but be a little anxious You guys are great with the advice Im so glad I found this site, cant wait to post pics of perfect babies soon

 

[20kidsonhill]

I have one in labor right now, otherwise I would be in bed. Doesn't look too promising for us, may be having problems.


I have seen them up eating like nothing going on, and go back out to the barn an hour later and twins or triplets are allready born, it is amazing how one can just pop a coulpe on the ground with very little carrying on and not many signs and another one will run around dig holes, bang their head on the wall for 3 or 4 hours, talk to their stomach. There is no missing the head bangers.

The ones that act like nothing is going on when you walk in the barn are annoying, they wont push they just stare at you, like they are saying, " what are you looking at, nothing going on over here." Then you stand around the corner trying to get a peak, and you notice some stretching and a little pushing, walk back in and they stand there like statues. Those does can be hard to work with when in labor, and hard to figure out how far along are they, are they having problems? That is the case right now for us. Plus we are going on 4 hours of what appears to be labor, but no real obvious get down to the business of pushing, lots of clear discharge. She is not tame, this is going to be a very long night.

 

[Blue Dog Farms]

Hows it going 20kids? I just went out to check Mia, shes breathing fast but not labored. She is cranky and doesnt want me to touch her and she kicked the younger girls out of the kidding pen so I went ahead and closed it. She has Brie in there with her and seems to be content with that. She layed down while I was out there and was grunting a little when shes breathing, but that could just be from the pressure of the fat belly. She pretty puffy back there but dry, no goo soo I dont know what this all means. Could it be early labor if theres no goo? I will check her soon, sheesh this is like waiting to on a human to give birth lol.

 

[20kidsonhill]

It sounds llike you are very close, any hour to maybe a day or two for you doe.

We have two bouncy baby boys. That doe sure had to work at it. 5 hours of dripping goo from her back side, and looking very unrelaxed and anxious, not really sure how long she actively pushed, since she was trying to be so secretive about the whole thing.

Managed to help assist at the very end with the second one, first one was all ready born, second one was coming out backwards, and when she popped it onto the ground, it wasn't looking any too lively, so I slung it around a little bit and tried to wipe the goo off of it, and it thankfully started breathing, she seems to be very happy about her new family, and we put them in a kidding stall for the night.

I am tired and going to bed, so we can get up bright and early and get those sheep into weigh-in.

I will check back often to here about any new news on your doe. This make the 19th doe for us this year, with one more to go any day now.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I guess I should clarify the sheep weigh-in. Our kids show sheep and goats at the fair, and the weigh-in starts in the morning at 6am. We plan on being their with the first load at 5:45. Yawn, I am tired thinking about it. this is the first weigh-in. Our fair is in August.

going to bed now.

 

[Blue Dog Farms]

Congrats!! And good luck with the weigh in! Im going to check her again in a little while, just came in no change so far just laying down. A little yawning and occasional stretch but not much. Shes chewing her cud. But her tail is curved out and she keeps flagging alot. Im probably over analizing everything lol.