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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: jaykay on April 22, 2012, 07:41:27 pm

Title: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: jaykay on April 22, 2012, 07:41:27 pm: Ok, so Ellie still hasn't kidded. She is the size of a barrage balloon.

Tomorrow I have to go to work. Properly, not the skiving, bad employee-bad shepherd/goatherd stuff I wangled last week.

She has shown the 'dimples' by her tail this afternoon.

So - how long til she kids do you think?
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: colliewoman on April 22, 2012, 08:43:49 pm: As you are at work tomorrow, i would say... tomorrow :D :goat:
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: jaykay on April 23, 2012, 05:42:51 pm: Ha, you were right about that!
Fortunately I was able to come home at lunchtime and she kidded not long after. A very nice black doe kid with white markings. I can't believe there was only one in there but it seems the scan was right :D

(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k70/jaykayg/ce1db22d.jpg)

(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k70/jaykayg/7049e54d.jpg)

And she's the last. I'm finished. I can sleep again :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: colliewoman on April 23, 2012, 06:00:40 pm: Oh well done!!

What is this strange thing called 'sleep' that you speak of?
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: Skirza on April 23, 2012, 06:03:43 pm: Quote from: colliewoman on April 23, 2012, 06:00:40 pm
Oh well done!!

What is this strange thing called 'sleep' that you speak of?

It's a myth CW....don't listen, it doesn't exist in the spring!
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: jaykay on April 23, 2012, 06:09:22 pm: I am going to get 8 hours tonight :D
You watch, I am so used to sleeping in 3 hour stretches and waking up at 4.30-5 that I will anyway ::)
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: Victorian Farmer on April 23, 2012, 06:15:29 pm: Well done dawn to 20 to lamb :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: jaykay on April 23, 2012, 06:19:18 pm: Good stuff, you'll be sleeping too before long :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: little blue on April 23, 2012, 06:34:38 pm: what a little stunner! Love the "flash" of white...
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: countrywoman on April 23, 2012, 06:44:53 pm: Lovely looking girl - worth the sleep disruption, I'd say. But aren't they all? Starting tomorrow morning, I'm not getting up at 5... Although my reliable pheasant who thinks he's an alarm clock will still be advertising for lonely ladies as usual!
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: Mammyshaz on April 23, 2012, 08:22:40 pm: Lovely photo, she looks very chunky for a newborn :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: jaykay on April 23, 2012, 08:35:16 pm: Yes, she's bigger than Rowan's two who were born last Thurs. The benefit of being a single, to a four year old mother I suppose.
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: goosepimple on April 23, 2012, 08:57:43 pm: Great pics, well done Jaykay, now you can go back to being a professional during office hours! My kids have just been enjoying those pics too. Great. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 23, 2012, 09:09:50 pm: Great news, well done all of you :-* Ellie's girl looks gorgeous :goat:

Sleep tight :wave:
Title: Re: Estimated time of kidding
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 23, 2012, 11:38:06 pm: Congratulations. She's gorgeous.