Wow, hope she makes another month!

[mdavenport0121]

My girl is due, earliest on October 18. She was put with the buck on May 21. Still four weeks away and she is huge. No udder development yet though.

 

[chicken pickin]

Wow she is huge She looks like shes ready to burst. I hope she and the kids do well over the next month and she delivers them smoothly. She is a very pretty goat by the way what breed is she?

 

[AshleyFishy]

Looks like someone is getting quads

 

[Moonshine]

Yeah that girl is huge! She's got a baseball team in there!

 

[woodsie]

WOWZA!

 

[mdavenport0121]

She's high percentage boer. She had twins last fall. This is what she looked like just four days before she had her twins. Thanks for the compliment. I got her June 2012. She was in bad shape when I got her, I thought she might honestly die. A good worming, vaccination and feed got her in really good shape. I haven't wormed her since last July and she is one of my better parasite resistant girls. When I bought her, I also bought a huge red headed boer that was a former show project. I got both girls for $180. I was worried when I first bought them because they were poor looking. Turned out to be a heck of a deal!

Question, if she does have more than 2, will I need to bottle feed? I've never had more than 2.

 

[AshleyFishy]

Good lord... she only had two that time? You might only get two then. Does she have mega babies?

 

[OneFineAcre]

She's high percentage boer. She had twins last fall. This is what she looked like just four days before she had her twins. Thanks for the compliment. I got her June 2012. She was in bad shape when I got her, I thought she might honestly die. A good worming, vaccination and feed got her in really good shape. I haven't wormed her since last July and she is one of my better parasite resistant girls. When I bought her, I also bought a huge red headed boer that was a former show project. I got both girls for $180. I was worried when I first bought them because they were poor looking. Turned out to be a heck of a deal!

Question, if she does have more than 2, will I need to bottle feed? I've never had more than 2.

http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a512/davenportgoats/Granny/Granny2012_Dec19_3_zps36faccba.jpg

You can't really go by their size to tell if they are having two, three, or 4

Will you have to bottle feed if she has more than two? Hopefully not. That is one of the characteristics you would judge the quality of a doe by, her ability to dam raise 3 or 4 kids. I think that's particularly true with meat breeds.

Our girl Coleus had quads this year and she supported them. Now you will usually see more dominant kids, so you have to make sure the runt is getting proper nutrition. We weaned two first to give the other two more time. Then we weaned a 3rd who was a buckling.

 

[HoneyDreameMomma]

Good lord... she only had two that time? You might only get two then. Does she have mega babies?

I just got the craziest mental picture! Thinking of all those campy, old Godzilla movies where Godzilla goes against big moths, dinosaurs, etc. Why not a 22-story boer kid? I'd watch it!

 

[mdavenport0121]

Still waiting. Tomorrow marks 150 days since I put her with the buck. She hasn't started bagging up much more than what the pictures show. I'm sure she will go from one day with no udder to a balloon the next day.