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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Lesley Silvester on June 09, 2016, 12:36:36 am
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Caldi is due on Saturday. Today I noticed she has a very slight discharge but her vulva is still pink, not read. Her ligaments are soft and I can get my fingers round the bones but she's been like that for a while. She's still behaving like normal.
Is it likely to be imminent or could she still go a few days? Or is a 'wait and see' occasion?
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wait and see... but they can have discharge a few days in advance.
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One old girl of mine, always had a discharge for a few days before she kids, but goats being goats, some of mine shows no sign except I fund twins
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Exciting!
I thought she was due the beginning of next week and was hoping she would hang on till Tuesday when I'm over in Telford!
One of mine had discharge weeks before she delivered and the rest none at all!
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Still nothing today.
Beeducked, that's when I first worked out the date but now I make it this Saturday. I don't know about exciting. I'm a nervous wreck. I'll ask her if she minds hanging on until Tuesday for you. If she won't, you'll just have to come and visit them.
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Just tell her to keep her legs crossed till Tuesday! I will pack some normal clothes to bring with me this time!
If she does go earlier that that, give me a ring. If I'm free I will come over.
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Just tell her to keep her legs crossed till Tuesday! I will pack some normal clothes to bring with me this time!
If she does go earlier that that, give me a ring. If I'm free I will come over.
You're on. I'm quite nervous after Pom's horrible experience last year. Caldi is now very suspicious when I go behind her as I keep lifting her tail to check. Udder is still soft. (i actually manage to touch it today while her head was in a food bucket)
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Well fingers crossed for a better experience this year. I'm guessing no sign of anything happening at the moment.
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I'm guessing no news yet. :goat:
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Nothing yet. i'm going to check on her in a bit then go to bed. Outside light is on and I can see her from the bedroom window so I'll be looking out several times during the night for the third night running.
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Did a double check of the table in my goat book and it appears that she is due tomorrow, not last Saturday. All that stressing for nothing.
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They can be early or late just like humans, the books just a guide.
One of mine is always day 148, one 152 and NO-ONE can kid before Suzie has.
You'll be stressed whatever it says.
Go by what's in front of you.
Good luck.
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:roflanim:
So glad I am not the only one that does that. Spent 10 days watching a sheep obsessively as she was last to deliver. Then she was going for the longest gestation in history. Then I checked the dates. Again. Talk about time waster.
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Did a double check of the table in my goat book and it appears that she is due tomorrow, not last Saturday. All that stressing for nothing.
Here is a bit of simple software that will do it for you
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Did a double check of the table in my goat book and it appears that she is due tomorrow, not last Saturday. All that stressing for nothing.
Here is a bit of simple software that will do it for you
My virus guard won't let me open that. The book is fine when I get my dates right. Serves me right for checking it when I was half asleep.
Anyway, twins arrived today at around 2pm and just afterwards - on their due date and at a sensible time of day. A boy - Korma - first followed by Snowstorm (and the thunder was rolling). Both beautiful and snowy white despite the rather colourful males we visited 150 days ago.
I'll try to put some photos on but I've never had much success with it. MIght be safer to check my Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/lesley.silvester.9/photos_all (https://www.facebook.com/lesley.silvester.9/photos_all)
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Great news they look great, even better when they are born at a time your about to observe
Worth all the worry and waiting :)
ps
You should be able to disable you antivirus or allow the installation its safe
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Congratulations! I kept checking to see if your girl had produced... always such a worry until it's done!
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Lovely looking goats nice time of year to arrive to none of that freezing cold night worries.
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I am totally besotted. :love:
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Really pleased!
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They are lovely. :love:
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Fantastic all is well, lovely little ones.
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Two days old and they are getting up on a hay bale. They have had several visitors who are all as besotted as I am.
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Any up to date pic? ;D
Pretty please.
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I'll have to text them across. I can never get pictures on here.
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For working dates out I just work 5 months to the date, its one day out, 2 if a leap year.
Love the names,
Korma :yum: :hungry:
Even 3/4 Toggenburgs/qrtr saanen come white, white is so dominant
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Even 3/4 Toggenburgs/qrtr saanen come white, white is so dominant
I have a 3/4 GG and 1/4BT - and she is white with the merest hint of cream.... Have to go back quite far in the BT line of her Pedigree to find BS or S.... sowWhite can pop up even a few generations later... hence quite a few black GG around (Malpas Manger was exported to Guernsey in 1949 to "fix" the golden colour on Miss Milbourne's GG's....)
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:rant: Just managed to delete this post and now not sure I can remember what I put. :rant:
The kids are, as you see, pure white. Their mother, Caldi, is also pure white but the father (or fathers - Caldi is a bit of a floozy) are a multitude of colours, mainly browns (Beeducked can correct me if I'm wrong on this). Caldi's mother - a white goat - was half Saanen half Boer, the Saanen half from her mother who had, I was told, once produced an entirely black kid.
Love the names,
Korma :yum: :hungry:
I like to be prepared. :roflanim: