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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: ScotsGirl on February 21, 2013, 08:26:46 am

Title: Long awaited New arrival
Post by: ScotsGirl on February 21, 2013, 08:26:46 am: Here is my new doeling which arrived yesterday afternoon after a long wait. She is feeding well thanks to Anke's advice of bottle feeding first colostrum.
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Post by: Brucklay on February 21, 2013, 09:05:16 am: Congratulations - well done ScotsGirl and goatie mum :thumbsup:
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Post by: Anke on February 21, 2013, 09:40:49 am: Congratulations :thumbsup: .

So how long was gestation in the end according to your calculation?
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Post by: jaykay on February 21, 2013, 09:56:01 am: Awwww :love:
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Post by: Daisys Mum on February 21, 2013, 11:54:57 am: Aww just so cute :love:
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Post by: sabrina on February 21, 2013, 12:31:00 pm: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: ScotsGirl on February 21, 2013, 01:06:09 pm: If I just went on months it was 5 and a week but days it was 161.
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Post by: sokel on February 21, 2013, 01:20:11 pm: What percentage is mum ? she looks so like our Lilly
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Post by: Carl f k on February 21, 2013, 01:29:59 pm: Congratulations :excited:
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Post by: ZaktheLad on February 21, 2013, 01:49:15 pm: What a cutie! :-* :thumbsup:
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Post by: goosepimple on February 21, 2013, 02:10:03 pm: Lovely, enjoy :goat:
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Post by: Mammyshaz on February 21, 2013, 05:32:55 pm: So cute :love: she's like her mums mini double
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Post by: Anke on February 21, 2013, 06:29:21 pm: Quote from: ScotsGirl on February 21, 2013, 01:06:09 pm
If I just went on months it was 5 and a week but days it was 161.

Wow, that's quite a bit overdue... but not enough to say she got caught 3 weeks later...
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Post by: ScotsGirl on February 21, 2013, 06:58:39 pm: Mum is 75% so that makes baby 87% I think. Is it normal for the belly still to be huge? She looks just as pregnant as before.

I still can't believe how tiny they are but lovely and silky soft.
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Post by: sokel on February 21, 2013, 07:02:39 pm: If mum is 75% Baby will be 87 1/2 % thats the same as Lilly , we are hoping for females off her so we can keep them as she was put to a topknot billy.
I take it yours are registered ?
Cant wait for our lot to start popping
Title: Re: Long awaited New arrival
Post by: ScotsGirl on February 21, 2013, 08:13:46 pm: Yes all of my does are registered. I hope to keep one or two girls and sell some if I get them. Eventually want to build a nice herd of high percentage Boers if I can find a market for the meat. I have another four to kid, three next week unless as late as this one
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Post by: ballingall on February 21, 2013, 09:18:07 pm: 161 days isn't unheard of. We had one born 10 days late too- just at that point when you are nearly panicking!

She looks very cute in the picture!

Beth
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 21, 2013, 10:36:56 pm: She's a sweetie.