Wehner Homestead Kidding Thread 2018

[Latestarter]

Tomorrow morning you go out and are greeted with some new herd members, all healthy and bellies full

 

[Wehner Homestead]

I wish! No such luck. We shall see what the day holds...

 

[Sweet horizon Nigerians]

I would critique her udder but I'm still learning myself so I can't say good or bad unfortunately.
I do however think that others would want to see her with a fill before giving their critique

Sorry I wasn't of any help

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Went back through my notes. I now know why Nellie hasn’t given me the clue that she will go RIGHT NOW! She short-cycled and somehow only the first exposure date got crossed to the kidding list. Both dates are on the breeding list. In other words, she stood for King on 11/8 and 11/14. When I checked the second date in the gestation calculator, 145 days would be 4/8 or Sunday. This makes MUCH more sense as her udder just doesn’t have that look and she hasn’t swollen enough yet. Ligs are going but not gone. Very thankful for all my notetaking! I will continue to watch her closely as Snowflake needs to release her hostages yet too!

Today is Day 144 for Snowflake. I really thought today would be the day. She was super restless this morning and didn’t want touched at all. She’s normally right there, wanting my attention. Snowflake also stood at the gate and just yelled at me while I was doing some of my other chores this morning. DH is in the barn now and I’ll go out and check her when he comes in. DD2 is fighting a rough cold that has caused her to get a cough with drainage that gags her so I don’t want to leave her alone.

Trying not to stress over these girls. I just want to know that the kids are here safely for all. (I’m not worried like I was with Sephie that ended in a csection.) I am afraid that Snowflake will have enough that I’ll have to pull some to be bottle babies!

Jasmine worried me for a sec today then I had to smile. She had somehow managed to climb in one of the makeshift hay feeders. (That’s a pig board behind her to keep the hay from working its way out the back.)

 

[goatgurl]

you know you may as well go in, climb in bed and go to sleep because they are going to hold those babies hostage till you are goofy and nonfunctional from lack of sleep and then and only then will they release them

 

[Wehner Homestead]

@goatgurl I think I’m already there! 2 human kids with bad colds and bad coughs and the youngest has more than enough issues already has pushed me over that edge!

Today is Day 145 for Snowflake and recalculated Day 142 for Nellie.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Today is Day 146 for Snowflake and Day 143 for Nellie. Still waiting. DD1 wants to try to squeeze Snowflake’s kids out when she gets home from school!

 

[Wehner Homestead]

So...Snowflake has had major changes today. Udder is fuller ! Ligs are gone and she’s sunken around her tail! Hips are even more prominent. She has also yelled for the last hour. Snowflake only stops if I’m out there but with two sick kiddos, I can’t just stay in the barn!

Anyway, picture proof...today is Day 146 for Snowflake as a FF.

Nellie is Day 143 (or Day 149 depending on when she bred.) She’s much closer too. Depending on how she progresses, she could go late today or in a day or two. Lol Nell’s udder doesn’t get “huge” anyway and it’s tight as a drum. Her ligs are very deep and very soft. Hips are more prominent and she’s now sunken around her tail. She’s black so it’s hard to tell as much in pics.

These two are buddies so I can totally see them kidding very close to each other!

 

[Hens and Roos]

that it all goes smoothly and that your human kids get to feeling better!!

I'm doing checks on 2 right now Basil is day 150 and Obie is day 146...

 

[Dani4Hedgies]