Queen Mum's 2013 Kidding Thread... Dot's new buckling with pic

[bonbean01]

Awww...sorry about the miscarriage

Glad babies are on the way to help get over that!!!!! Thinking PINK for you!!!!!

 

[rebelINny]

Awww that's too bad about your goat miscarrying.

 

[poorboys]

anything???

 

[Missy]

Sorry about your doe aborting the pregnancy, it is hard, I have been there myself this year.

Good luck with the upcoming kiddings, I will be watching

I will think PINK for you if you think BLUE for me for my Oberhasli!

 

[madcow]

So, so sorry about the miscarriage. Hope Mama's birth goes well. We do expect pics ASAP once she does!

 

[Queen Mum]

AGGG! The waiting is killing me... She is looking like a HOUSE... Mama is a big girl and she carries her babies well. She does the Braxton Hicks thing and it drives me crazy. She will labor and labor. Ears flat, quietly looking pained and miserable and she gets up and goes to eat and is fine for a few days... Mama is due on the 28th. And she always waits till AFTER her due date... sometimes a whole week. She knows when it's time. At that time she just goes into the barn and is dead silent for a couple hours and next thing you know... a couple great big KIDS... Maddening, simply maddening.

Jelly Bean is kind of the same way... A silent hidden labor. The silence of experience and survival..

Now Brownie, she is the noisiest, flittiest little girl around... She WAILS for her mamma (me) and wants me to hug her and pet her. She acts like a piece of velcro. She licks me like I am one of her babies and won't let me leave her side. She is such a little KID!

Do any of you remember when I first got Houdini and Jelly Bean? If you read the first couple pages of my journal you will remember that they were completely wild and unapproachable. I spent months trying to get near them and get them to trust me. They were horribly neglected and just basically surviving.... Jelly Bean was left in a huge dirt lot with about 25 other goats. I rescued her from being raped by a bunch of horny bucks twice her size. She was so full of worms that she looked about 6 months pregnant. She was so shy. It took several weeks before she would even come into the barn to eat more than two feet. I wormed her and gave her immunizations, copper and minerals and Houdini bred her. (He was so sweet with her.)

Now she follows me around for belly and back rubs and jumps up on the milk stand. She is just a sweetheart.

And Houdini? It took weeks and weeks of coaxing to get him to allow me to even touch him. He follows me everywhere and it the favorite pet goat of the neighborhood. He still escapes his pen but now it is so he can sneak onto the neighbors porch and steal vegetables and knock on their door with his horns to get treats.

He is still madly in love with Mama. But his mate is Jelly Bean. He sleeps outside her pen at night, if I don't let him in with her. If it is raining he goes into the big barn to sulk cause he can't sleep with Jelly Bean.

He gets up on the milk stand now and puts his head in the stanchion and then turns and looks at me waiting for me to put something in the pan. Then he oos and ahs over getting a brushy and having the burrs pulled from his hair. Yesterday he even let me pull them off his belly. `

 

[Queen Mum]

OK, she is due February 27 or February 28... She is not even LOOKING like she is going to kid... Her bottom looks normal. Her udder is floppy and soft. Not even full... Her belly is HUGE... She was out eating like a pig today and I am taking her out again tomorrow.

SIGH, KID WATCH, DOE CODE! I WANT BABIES. Mama knows best...

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

I just went out and had a stern talking to mine about the fact that they are only allowed to lose their plug ONCE. This gooing a little bit for a couple days and flitting between yes ligaments and no ligaments and dropping their belly and then not getting enough of an udder to mean business. Oooh.... We had such a talk. Does.

 

[Queen Mum]

Did it work?

 

[Missy]

Did it work?

I would like to know as well!