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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: LouiseG on April 30, 2013, 12:36:29 pm

Title: Day 150
Post by: LouiseG on April 30, 2013, 12:36:29 pm
Well, flora my British toggenburg is due today, looking like a beached whale but no real signs of imminent arrival  :thinking: . Trying very hard not to keep going out to check her as a watch pot never boils  :innocent: . going to have a little peek then think about lunch.
Title: Re: Day 150
Post by: Roxy on April 30, 2013, 04:47:15 pm
Yes, going inside to have a cup of tea,or lunch .....and goat will kid then.  Its happened to me.
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Post by: plumseverywhere on April 30, 2013, 04:51:58 pm
Will look forward to pictures Louise!!
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Post by: Anke on April 30, 2013, 05:39:13 pm
Anything????
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Post by: sokel on April 30, 2013, 06:45:10 pm
Hope it all goes well
so far all of ours except 1 was late, that 1 came 1 day early
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Post by: LouiseG on April 30, 2013, 08:51:20 pm
 :huff:  Nothing yet, rear end looks a little puffy, she can't walk properly as her udder is very large. Went into town to do a bit of shopping just to stop me keep looking. Will check again in a couple of hours. I have my money on about 5am and twins :eyelashes:  but OH has his money on 9am. Watch this space, could be a disturbed night :fc:

Title: Re: Day 150
Post by: Anke on April 30, 2013, 09:11:07 pm
That's where I found my camera sooooo useful.Especially for the 5am checks - my GG did kid at 5am - I watched one of them being born on the camera, by the time I got dressed (it's still too cold to run there in my PJ's) and down to the shed No 2 was already being licked dry...
But even during the day having the camera on meant that I could get on with things in the house and keep an eye - most of mine actually don't like me being there watching them...
Hope it all goes OK!
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Post by: fifixx on April 30, 2013, 09:14:24 pm
Sorry to hijack, but Anke - which camera set-up do you have?
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Post by: sokel on April 30, 2013, 09:15:30 pm
Our last 1 was checked at 5.30pm and no signs  went to collect the car from the garage, returned just over 30 mins later and twins where up on their feet !
Title: Re: Day 150
Post by: Anke on April 30, 2013, 09:21:36 pm
Sorry to hijack, but Anke - which camera set-up do you have?
WE bought a Foscam Indoor wireless IP camera and also a TP link (Amazon I´m afraid) so we could get the data to the laptop (no telly in our house), using our broadband router and the normal electric cable running to the goat shed. I am a complete techno-idiot in these things, OH set it all up - he was keen on less disrupted níghts too...
Has got infrared too, so no need to keep the lights going all night!
Title: Re: Day 150
Post by: LouiseG on May 01, 2013, 08:56:48 am
No news yet  :(

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Post by: Anke on May 01, 2013, 10:52:53 am
No news yet  :(
But presumably all ready to pop - udder, pink and swollen backend, hollow sides? I had one of mine go over by two days - she kidded the day when I was supposed to be in Newcastle...
Have you got an important appointment to keep today or tomorrow  :thinking:  - that's when she will kid! ;D
Title: Re: Day 150
Post by: LouiseG on May 01, 2013, 11:25:59 am
Thanks, had Monday and Tuesday off as holiday, but back to work today noon to 7.30pm so will leave a big note for 18 year old son to check when he gets back from college, bound to happen then as he is definite that HE DOESN'T do goats  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Day 150
Post by: LouiseG on May 02, 2013, 09:04:05 pm
Still no babies, even snuck out of work for half hour at lunchtime to come home and check her. Got to happen eventually  :)
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Post by: sokel on May 02, 2013, 09:08:14 pm
We are in the same Boat , Hope they arrive soon
 Tulip our last Boer is due today, She has other plans though  ::)
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Post by: LouiseG on May 03, 2013, 08:48:13 pm
Great news,  twin girls born at 4.30 pm. Both a good size and straight forward birth except I was on a split shift and was due back at work at 4.30 for evening surgery. :innocent:  I now owe my fellow receptionist a favour,as she covered for me till I got back about 5.15pm when happy both girls had got up ish and definitely bothfed before leaving them. :excited:   :goat: :goat: photos as soon as.
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Post by: Daisys Mum on May 03, 2013, 09:29:37 pm
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: sokel on May 03, 2013, 09:51:10 pm
Great news,Look forward to Pics
 we are still waiting !
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Post by: Anke on May 03, 2013, 10:23:18 pm
Told you she would do it when you had something important on... :-J
Twin girls - that's great news!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LouiseG on May 04, 2013, 10:08:42 am
The girls this morning  :excited:
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Post by: Perdita on May 04, 2013, 12:10:46 pm
Brilliant news and they look absolutely beautiful, srtong and healthy kids - and 2 girls. Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Daisys Mum on May 04, 2013, 01:10:09 pm
Gorgeous  :love:
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Post by: Anke on May 04, 2013, 08:56:44 pm
Who's daddy? Boer?
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Post by: sabrina on May 04, 2013, 09:17:47 pm
They are just lovely.
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Post by: sokel on May 04, 2013, 09:51:06 pm
They are lovely, I am Guessing they are 50% Boer ?  Look a lot like our BT x Boers
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Post by: Roxy on May 05, 2013, 12:04:45 am
They are really nice - worth the wait :)
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 05, 2013, 10:12:39 pm
Beautiful girls.
Title: Re: Day 150
Post by: LouiseG on May 06, 2013, 07:12:27 pm
Yes dad was a boer. Had told myself they were definitely for the freezer but now two girls  :thinking:  not so sure I can eat them  :-\