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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Estimated time of kidding
« 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?
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colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
    • Pilton
  • Caution! May spontaneously talk rabbits!
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2012, 08:43:49 pm »
As you are at work tomorrow, i would say... tomorrow :D :goat:
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #2 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





And she's the last. I'm finished. I can sleep again  :thumbsup:
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colliewoman

  • Joined Jul 2011
    • Pilton
  • Caution! May spontaneously talk rabbits!
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2012, 06:00:40 pm »
Oh well done!!

What is this strange thing called 'sleep' that you speak of?
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We'll turn the dust to soil,
Turn the rust of hate back into passion.
It's not water into wine
But it's here, and it's happening.
Massive,
but passive.


Bring the peace back

Skirza

  • Joined Mar 2011
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #4 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!
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #5 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  ::)
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Victorian Farmer

  • Guest
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2012, 06:15:29 pm »
Well done dawn to 20 to lamb :thumbsup:
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2012, 06:19:18 pm »
Good stuff, you'll be sleeping too before long  :thumbsup:
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little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
    • Derbyshire
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2012, 06:34:38 pm »
what a little stunner! Love the "flash" of white...
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Little Blue

countrywoman

  • Joined Nov 2011
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #9 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!
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Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • Durham
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2012, 08:22:40 pm »
Lovely photo, she looks very chunky for a newborn  :thumbsup:
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #11 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.
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goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
    • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #12 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:
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2012, 09:09:50 pm »
Great news, well done all of you  :-*  Ellie's girl looks gorgeous  :goat:

Sleep tight  :wave:
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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: Estimated time of kidding
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2012, 11:38:06 pm »
Congratulations.  She's gorgeous.
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