We're about 13 days away from our first does due date. We bred 6 (1 in March), but have 5 due in the next 2-6 weeks.
I don't have very good pics, and the girls are all such a dirty nasty mess! not to mention how nasty it is outside. With the freezing temps gone, we've had rain and now everything is mud. Yuck. Then, they started snuggling and hunkering down during the bitter cold snap and wouldn't get up to pee/poo and made a huge mess of themselves. It's so frustrating, but not much I can do but lather them up with Vaseline.
I haven't gotten to spend much time with them the past couple of months, my husband and kids have been the ones taking care of them. But now that I am over a crazy lengthy sickness (sinus infection that wouldn't go away! then stomach flu!), I'm finally better and trying to get back out there and stay on top of things.
Wysteria is first, due 1-31
She'll be 6yo next month, 5th pregnancy. As usual, she is HUGE. I do worry about her as she is having a hard time walking on her rear feet. I gave her a lookover on the stand the other day and her hooves aren't too bad, but all the weight has them turning under.
End of Sept she weighed 197lbs. and about 2 1/2 weeks ago she was 247lbs. She always has twins that are 10lbs+, and tends to do most of her 'resting' sitting up like in the first pic.
This was her last year and she looks the same this year.
Yesterday with my phone...
She got that bulge under her rumen last year (had 13 & 14lb twin bucks last year). There is a baby there again this year.
Chloe is next due on 1/31, first timer. I'm guessing 1-2 kids for her right now.
Harmony, is due 2/04, another first timer. Pregnancy looks good on her, especially her personality. For the last almost 2 years she's not liked me, and now she loves me. Wonder how much of that will change after she kids lol
Chloe on left, Harmony on right
Luna is due 2/16, just turned 4yo and 3rd pregnancy. She is Harmony's dam. Love this sweet, and silly girl. It was warm yesterday despite how nasty/wet it was outside, and she decided to lay in the doorway and got dirty (probably because she knows I brought the camera out!). Looks like possible twins this year. Last year she had a really, really nice & huge single buck kid.
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Hard to get pics, she's always following me.
Misty is last of this bunch, due 2/20. She is almost 3yo, 2nd pregnancy. She is Luna's younger sister (different sire). She belongs to my 11yo daughter and is such a sweetheart.
Don't mind her funny looking nose/hair loss, she's rubbing it on the hay feeder. Above does tend to be mean to her so she likes to hang with the younger does in a different shelter and their hay feeder has narrower slats. I may widen them a little bit for her.
I think Chloe was feeling left out, tugging at her jacket lol
I don't have very good pics, and the girls are all such a dirty nasty mess! not to mention how nasty it is outside. With the freezing temps gone, we've had rain and now everything is mud. Yuck. Then, they started snuggling and hunkering down during the bitter cold snap and wouldn't get up to pee/poo and made a huge mess of themselves. It's so frustrating, but not much I can do but lather them up with Vaseline.
I haven't gotten to spend much time with them the past couple of months, my husband and kids have been the ones taking care of them. But now that I am over a crazy lengthy sickness (sinus infection that wouldn't go away! then stomach flu!), I'm finally better and trying to get back out there and stay on top of things.
Wysteria is first, due 1-31
She'll be 6yo next month, 5th pregnancy. As usual, she is HUGE. I do worry about her as she is having a hard time walking on her rear feet. I gave her a lookover on the stand the other day and her hooves aren't too bad, but all the weight has them turning under.
End of Sept she weighed 197lbs. and about 2 1/2 weeks ago she was 247lbs. She always has twins that are 10lbs+, and tends to do most of her 'resting' sitting up like in the first pic.
This was her last year and she looks the same this year.
Yesterday with my phone...
She got that bulge under her rumen last year (had 13 & 14lb twin bucks last year). There is a baby there again this year.
Chloe is next due on 1/31, first timer. I'm guessing 1-2 kids for her right now.
Harmony, is due 2/04, another first timer. Pregnancy looks good on her, especially her personality. For the last almost 2 years she's not liked me, and now she loves me. Wonder how much of that will change after she kids lol
Chloe on left, Harmony on right
Luna is due 2/16, just turned 4yo and 3rd pregnancy. She is Harmony's dam. Love this sweet, and silly girl. It was warm yesterday despite how nasty/wet it was outside, and she decided to lay in the doorway and got dirty (probably because she knows I brought the camera out!). Looks like possible twins this year. Last year she had a really, really nice & huge single buck kid.
Hard to get pics, she's always following me.
Misty is last of this bunch, due 2/20. She is almost 3yo, 2nd pregnancy. She is Luna's younger sister (different sire). She belongs to my 11yo daughter and is such a sweetheart.
Don't mind her funny looking nose/hair loss, she's rubbing it on the hay feeder. Above does tend to be mean to her so she likes to hang with the younger does in a different shelter and their hay feeder has narrower slats. I may widen them a little bit for her.
I think Chloe was feeling left out, tugging at her jacket lol