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Post by sunshine on Feb 10, 2011 18:56:52 GMT -5
I guess I am officially on kid watch.  Callie, first doe due, is due Monday. Tonight I noticed her tail hanging at that funny angle. Her ligaments were definitely loose when I checked them. But her udder is not tight yet. I am hoping that she waits at least until it warms up tomorrow to drop kids. It might still be a few more days, but I left her in the coop I want her to kid in for the night, just in case. |
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Feb 10, 2011 20:28:37 GMT -5
Hope she is kind, and waits. My next is due the 17th. Her ligs come and go and so do all the other symptoms except I haven't seen any birth goo yet. I like the ones that give fair warning and get on with it, not the head games like Lisle plays.
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Post by sunshine on Feb 10, 2011 22:10:55 GMT -5
I just checked on her and she was hanging her tail down, and not in labor. So hopefully she's waiting a couple of days. Usually my does bag up the day they kid, and she is not bagged up.
She has had goo off and on for a week or two, but in small amounts, not the "today's the day" kind of goo.
I'm going to bed.
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Post by sunshine on Feb 14, 2011 15:52:09 GMT -5
I noticed at morning chores that Callie was starting to bag up. By lunch time, she was hanging at the barn looking very ready. I had my lunch, then went out with old towels and sat with her. She delivered two big buck kids, between about 1:30 and 2, with very little effort. Didn't even bother to lay down. Just popped them out and I caught them. This is the doe I have so much wanted to keep a doe kid off, but just can't seem to get one.  Pics later. |
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Post by sunshine on Feb 14, 2011 17:55:32 GMT -5
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Post by michelle on Feb 15, 2011 9:03:48 GMT -5
Congratulations and they are so cute
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Post by Valerie on Feb 15, 2011 9:26:57 GMT -5
Oh they are so cute! What do y'all do with your buck kids?
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Post by sunshine on Feb 15, 2011 11:07:37 GMT -5
We sell the bucks. I'll let Callie raise them since she took to them right away. At three months, I'll advertise them on craigslist, and if I don't get any takers, they'll go off to auction.
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Post by bob on Feb 15, 2011 11:31:34 GMT -5
Oh I miss having goats, especially watching the kids romp around and play.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Feb 15, 2011 11:51:04 GMT -5
Sorry you didn't get a doeling from her.
As soon as my new camera gets here, I'm putting the bucklings on CL. My friend's husband doesn't want to do bottle bucklings this yr. I have to get them banded and disbudded. My iron came, but I haven't had a chance to get it done. I need one of those kid boxes or something.
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Post by sunshine on Feb 15, 2011 17:16:24 GMT -5
My husband built me a kid box way back when we did our first, 12 years ago. Unfortunately, we went by the book that said to do them before they were a month old or something stupid like that. So by the time we thought they were "big enough," it was too late, and the box is much bigger than it should be.
Sometimes I still use it and stuff a pillow in it. Sometimes I just hold them under my arm.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Feb 15, 2011 21:37:37 GMT -5
If I had anybody to help with it, I'd just hold them. Can't take them to my friend, Diane's farm like I've done before. Neither of us drive.
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Post by sunshine on Feb 16, 2011 9:01:05 GMT -5
DH helped me the first few years. Now I just do it myself. How old do you do your LaManchas? I do the Nubians when they are only a few days old.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Feb 16, 2011 22:34:41 GMT -5
I try to get them done by 2 weeks, but it isn't always easy to get help. I had been taking them to my friend to do. I did just get an iron. Been running too hard to take time to do Salsa. I'm not planning to do the bucklings unless someone buys them pretty soon. I'll have to do Lucy in a few days too.
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Post by sunshine on Feb 17, 2011 8:45:06 GMT -5
Just before lunchtime yesterday, I walked out into the back room and heard one of the babies crying. I looked out and saw my dog hunched down in a herding position next to the water buckets, and went out to find one of the babies with its front legs stuck in the bucket.
I'm pretty sure the dog ran it there, and it was lucky for her there were no injuries. I actually contemplated a trip to the pound on my way out there.
I popped the kid back into the coop with its dam, and brought the dog up and tied her until I could do yet more reinforcing on the fences. sigh. I dragged up some panels and tied them to the fence where she was climbing over it, and took a small piece out to mend the coop fence where I think the kid got out.
My goats love to push up against the fences, and it eventually causes the fences to pull loose at the posts in their coops. So I used the small piece of panel to tie it all back together.
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