Ready to pull my hair out..update...prolapse? New pics pg 4

[rebelINny]

Here's hoping Dallas and Reggie do great and you come home to find dry, healthy beautiful babies on the ground!

 

[poorboys]

has she kidded yet????? hope everything goes well.

 

[Roll farms]

Reggie's still holding out...or holding in.....however you look at it

Her ligs are pretty soft tonight, but her udder isn't screaming, "I'm going to kid soon" to me.

DH told me when I got home tonight that Patches is now prolapsing / pooching a bit. I just checked on them all and yep...she is.

That girl IS fat...gonna cut her grain down and make her get up more. She's due next week.

 

[Theykeepmebusy]

Thanks, Rolls!

That dang doe kid, yet? I was throwing hay around a little while ago & hadn't gotten to the chicken poop barn to check on Garnet, yet, but heard newborn bleating coming from there, while haying the big milker pen. Walk in there & shove Guinea out of the way to check Garnet's pen & she just looks up from munching hay & says M-m-m-m? No babies! So I'm like, WTH? & look in the OTHER pen w/ late gestation does in it, thinking it's Lorelei b/c she's been showing signs of getting pretty ready, too. No babies in there, either! WTH???!!! Look around at the other pens - one of which has a mama/baby & the other has does that shouldn't be due till April at the earliest. Nuttin'.

I hear the bleating again & it IS coming from the pen Lorelei's in, but . . .where the heck's the kid? So I clamber in there & start looking around & aaaaaHA! The poor thing SOMEhow managed to fall down into a crack btw there & the next door pen that's like: .0934 inches wide. Dig it out - check for gender - yay, a doeling! & hand her to Lorelei. & clamber out to go to the big barn to get more bedding b/c pens are pretty nasty since it rained all day, y'day.

Come back w/ an armload if bedding & start spreading it around & see Lorelei kinda nudging the kid away from her. What! Lorelei's usually a great mom! So I clamber BACK in there & am trying to shove the kid up to a teat & Lorelei starts actually BUCKING. WHAT! Lorelei is THE sweetest, most well-behaved doe on the planet! (K, most of the time.) Not to mention: A GREAT MOM! So I'm jerking her around, giving her a good talking-to while trying to shove her into a corner, so I can lean agst her to keep her there, while I get the kid on a teat & . . .AS I'm doing so, the OTHER doe in that pen happens to swing her rear toward me & . . . has a swollen, bloody twee & tail! ADOYYYYYYYYYY!

In my defense, though - she was NOT big at all, had NOT even started bagging up - nuttin'! So I figured she just didn't settle on her first breeding date & just kinda mentally filed it away to start paying attention to her again in another 3 weeks or so, right?

LOLOL!

Sooooo, there - there's a good story for the newbies, so they know that even we semi-experienced goatherdesses have DOH moments on occasion, right? K, so w/ me it's like: daily, but . . .

 

[mabeane]

I had a doe with a huge prolapse this year...she was carrying quints and there was no room. Vet wanted to do a stitch but the 24 hour vigilance required was not going to happen so I opted out. Just when I was ready to get some interference it receded and she acted fine...no sign of labor etc. She kidded in the night , losing all five but now one week later she is up and about and doing much better.