I'm having a seriously guilt filled, what if, if only, I shoulda kind of day. No sleep so very tired, and heartbroken. Confused, full of questions.
I learned one thing from it all that I wanted to share before I try to put the whole thing behind me
Read more…Just in case anyone is interested. I just discovered that you can look up "cam list - mare stare" and click on their customers in a list and view their live streaming barn cams. So far I only know of one located at a goat farm and it is Pelican Acres
Read more…This doe is due on May 3rd and I was wondering if you could tell me if ahe is large for her stage in pregnancy or if she is smaller, how many? I kinda thought she looks small but this is my first time so I really have no clue.
Read more…I just went out to move the Momma and babies to a different pen for the day so she has more graze and she has bloody mucus on her tail...The kids were born Sunday...is this normal for her to have some discharge at this time?
We also had a freeze watch
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html
This is a great little tool. After I had already done the count each month, etc., method, I used this. (I actually put it on a spreadsheet since it autodates cells.) Because I knew when Capri was bred l
Read more…My new baby born yesterday morning doesn't seem to have much energy. She is still very wobbly when standing and isn't moving around the stall as much as I thought she would be. Can someone tell me how a 1 day old is supposed to be acting? I've givin
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I am wondering if anyone has ever had a pregnant doeling and if you can share with me your experience? I am devastated! In the fall my two bucks broke through their temporary fence and got into the girls. At the time I was not too concerned as
Read more…I have a bred doe. She is supposedly due on the 3rd of May n' will be a 4th freshener. She is already forming a udder and getting a firmer stomach. I am wondering if she is not due a little earlier than the seller told me. She doesn't look very big
Read more…Yet another nervous first time mum here!!
So both our goats are pregnant and are due at the end of February.
Getting together kidding kits etc and making sure we are prepared for all events. This will be Elly's fourth birth, first with us and Eva's
Read more…Hi,
I posted a while back about my doeling getting pregnant. She freshened yesterday but had a terrible time. As the time past I was feeling better about the unfortunate early breeding as her one year birthday is coming up March 22 and I was thinki
Read more…I am so good at telling other people not to beat yourself up or keep saying "what if," and for the past 24 hours I've been reminded how hard it is to be kind to yourself. Yesterday, my beloved Coco went into labor. She has a history of quads and quin
Read more…Yesterday I counted the days & figured out that Penny & Annie would be at day 145 Feb 11th which is almost exactly 3 weeks from today. Apparently 145 is the earliest they could kid?
Annie's udder appears to be fully developed, though not really f
Read more…I almost but this in the other thread, but here is a mystery for you guys. Penny & Annie were bred on the same day, Annie kidded at day #143 with two perfect spunky bucks. She was HUGE, we thought she had triplets. She had started making her udder
Read more…Panzy kidded today. I'll try for a pic tomorrow, as it was a rough one! I couldn't untangle stuck kids. Had one rear hoof, one front hoof. I took her to my dog/cat vet who did a stint on a diary farm and a pig farm, so experience sorting out this
Read more…Although I haven't been on since November due to continuing illness. Today I was happily blessed with triplets. We sold the two blue eyed girls to get the herd down to three does and two bucks. Today Misty stepped up to the plate and had three, 2 buc
Read more…Elly and Eva's kids as of tomorrow will be 7 and 8 days old. They are all doing amazingly well, gaining weight, nibbling at hay jumping around and just having a party! Our nursery pen has both mums in and the 4 kids and all is going well. The kids
Read more…I am concerned about Peter's umbilical cord...it is still attached and almost as long as his legs...Should I try and somehow tie it off and remove the excess or should I just let it naturally fall off? also Momma goat did not full clean the goop off
Read more…How long do you wait before you intervene when they are only nursing 1 side? They were born last evening and so far have only discovered the right side. Should I try to get them to start on the left, or should I just milk out some colostrum and fre
Read more…Hi all, the time for my first babies is almost upon me and I’m FREEKING OUT. I think I’ve over read and researched and now I’ve fried my brain. I can’t remember anything. 145 days sounds so far away until all of a sudden I’ve only got a couple of wee
Read more…Well I knew I had rats...I have been poinsoning them for awhile (in the barn).
I woke up the other night, looked at the baby monitor and saw two glowing eyes peering over Penny's back and I thought, omg, she had her baby! Nope...it was a big rat,
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