DARN IT!! I think the doe I've been planning on kids from in JUNE is in HEAT! She's not looking very pregnant to me, and today she's walking around with her tail flagging, squatting a lot (to pee) and being really vocal. She's not usually this vocal. SOOOO disappointed...
UPDATE 6/3:
Well it never looked like she went into heat again... but she's also not carrying more than one kid if she's pregnant. I've been feeling her up like she's a sack of potatoes and I'm trying to feel out the rotten one... lol Today, while I was feeling around and BEGGING her to be pregnant and due to kid any day, I think I felt a KID!!
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She wasn't pregnant from the breeding here in this conversation, but she has kidded twice for me now, and I have one of her doelings that will be bred this year! :)
Im a little late following this discussion, but did your goat ever have kids?
My experience is that does will go into full heat and accept breeding while pregnant. My doe had been in the same area with 2 large male kids, when they were 7 weeks old they started mounting the goats. I went ahead and removed them and figured it was weaning time, and into the male pen they went. Now, everything I have read says remove males at 8 weeks old. Well 3 months later I got my prize buck and one of the does that one of those 7 week old bucks mounted went into heat. So put the doe with the buck and he bred her a number of times. But 2 months later I come out one morning to find a single doeling kid, with that Doe. I figured she was due in 8 weeks to the male that she was bred to intentionally.
I have also had a doe not sack up until less than 24 hours before kidding, so sacking up weeks ahead of time isn't true for all of them.
Worse yet, I had a female doe who went into heat, she was only around young kids her age. At 7 1/2 weeks I removed all the male kids to make sure they couldn't breed anyone. This little doe acted starved all the time, then she started getting bigger. It turned that she had been bred around 6-7 weeks old and it took. She was bred by a male of the same age. She had a brother and another male that was her age. So she kidded at slightly less than 7 months old. The saddest thing was I didn't have help and had to run up to the house and by the time I got back I had to pull a dead kid.
Sometimes when the goats go into a heat I wonder if the chemical causes all does to cycle a heat, even if it is false and they are already pregnant. Because I have had another doe go into full heat at 2 or 3 months pregnant, so i think she isn't bred and have her bred back again, and then she kids with the first breeding time schedule.
That is some of my experience in this area. Good luck. I wish we could use a human pregnancy test on goats, it would make all of our lives easier. But of course, it isn't the same checmicals as humans so it wont work.
Rachel Whetzel said:
Rachel Whetzel said:
Well it never looked like she went into heat again... but she's also not carrying more than one kid if she's pregnant. I've been feeling her up like she's a sack of potatoes and I'm trying to feel out the rotten one... lol Today, while I was feeling around and BEGGING her to be pregnant and due to kid any day, I think I felt a KID!!
Deb, I thought I'd ask about what to feel for and what I felt. Just a bit above her pelvic area, and just under her spine, there was a lump about the size of a newborn kid. (she's due in 4 days if she's pregnant.) I felt the other side of her in the same spot, and I could feel the lump there. When I pushed on the side it was favoring, I could feel it move to the other side I was pushing toward. Could it have been a kid? From which angle to you judge "right side"? This was nearly in the middle... and usually her belly is always pliable. I've never felt any sort of hardness like this before. To my knowledge, she's only ever had one kid at a time, and this is her third kidding.
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