When do you think she'll kid?

[TheMixedBag]

I'm guessing within a week and a half (so about 10 days).

Current signs are soft ligaments (you gotta push hard to feel them), slowly filling udder, and stringy yellow discharge as of this morning. I also felt the kids kick in the hip, though that *may* be because the first kid in line is bleeping huge.

 

[glenolam]

Hard to say, but the amber goo coming out makes me wonder if it's sooner than then.

What kind is she? Her color looks just like my ober/nubian cross!

 

[helmstead]

At least a month...unless she forgot she's supposed to build an udder...

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Yeah, I'm with Helmstead. Her udder says she's at least a month out, but no ligs? The discharge could just be the mucous plug, which they can lose weeks before kidding. Sometimes their ligs come and go, but it's mostly just a softening rather than them disappearing. I think it's rare for them to be completely gone then come back. But, she is a goat after all...

 

[Rebbetzin]

We have one doe due the 19th!! Hope everything goes well for all our "moms" this season.

 

[lilhill]

I'm thinking at least a month also. I have a couple that seem like they lose their ligs a few weeks prior to due date and they continuously pop back up. Remember, goats will lie through their teeth just to keep us on our toes.

 

[Ariel301]

I'm going to say she's got at least a couple of weeks also. Her udder isn't looking too full yet.

But...she could fill it at the last minute and kid any minute. Or....she could wait a month playing the here and gone ligament game. I've got a doe who does that. Currently she's laying in a corner breathing hard and has no ligaments, she's leaking goo, she's ruffling up her hair at the other does and chasing them from her corner...but she's not due for over a week...

 

[chubbydog811]

I gave up on checking ligs...
No help to me at all! My girls ALWAYS lied.

Luckily I know my girls enough to be able to go out and say, "hey, she's going to kid today." (I also hand breed, so I know when they roughly should be due...This helps TONS!)

I'm no help Sorry!
But I will say, she doesn't look "ready" yet...

Good luck though!

 

[ksalvagno]

Unless she is one that bags up when she kids, she looks like she has some time to go yet.

 

[TheMixedBag]

Her genetics are to bag when she kids, her dam and granddam were both like that. The earliest she could have been due was the 15th, and she can't be due any later than early February, not with the ultrasound results.