Sweetened's 2015 Kidding thread (Last arrival 2/23)

[Sweetened]

Gretel will kid within the next few hours. Ligs are gone (since about 10:30 last night), won't lay down, happily greeted me (she usually glares skeptically, is friendly but only once I catch her), circles, sniffs at food and moves away. Today is now day 152, the same day she kidded last year. Oh yeah, and the weather is CRAP!

Alright, so, I just looked over my old thread and here's what I gather from her first freshening.

Gretel stopped laying down around 3:30am
Ligs were unable to be located from 6:30am (3 hours)
Didn't eat from about 7:30am (4 hours)
Minor contractions were occuring at 1:30pm (10 hours)
First actual pushes at 3:20pm-ish (12 hours)
Big pushes begin at 3:40pm (12.5ish hours)
Complications ensued and birth happened about 2 hours later.

Excellent... in for the long haul.

 

[Sweetened]

 

[norseofcourse]

She's experienced now, maybe this time will go quicker?

and thinking good thoughts for you both - did you get any sleep last night?

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Hope you have kids soon!

 

[luvmypets]

 

[Goat Whisperer]

 

[Sweetened]

Experienced now... interesting concept this... experienced thing. She is sleeping on and off, eating on and off, laughing on and off -- err... i swear.

Her ligs are still gone, only when she is laying down and i am really trying to find them can i find ONE. But she is back up again, pacing, resistig laying down, nosing feed and dropping it out of the feeder.

So i still say today, but it could be more like... tonight i guess.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I bet she will kid today/tonight.

So many people say that their does will go off hay and feed before kidding. I guess ours didn't get the memo because they seriously are eating alfalfa while they are pushing!

 

[Sweetened]

Lol. Im also going by her first freshening, which was a bad birth in the first place. Clingly to the last shreds of my sanity

 

[Sweetened]

Oh i guess i should update too:
Gretel day 152, kidded on this day last year

Gladys, day 151, ligs same, udder tighter yet, HATES the meat doe thats in the pen with them. She usually cuddles up with them at night but glafys will get up at acertain distance and charge her. I witnessed her 'freak out' a couple times and quickly scramble her head to her udder to lick and moan, but nothing else going on.

Tootsie and flora day 147, both unchanged.