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5 Does due Jan 24th-Feb 20th

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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
 
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Oh my goodness! Wisteria is huge! She probably had to sit like that because she uses her steam just getting half up lol I was always considered a tad underweight before I hit 30 and I remember having to roll out of bed and work up enough energy just to get out of a chair when I was pregnant with my son lol I’m feeling for her right now lol
But seriously they all look so stunning! You have a very beautiful herd on your hands. I am living Misty’s personality just off of the pictures! You can see the total love between your daughter and her
 
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Oh my goodness! Wisteria is huge! She probably had to sit like that because she uses her steam just getting half up lol I was always considered a tad underweight before I hit 30 and I remember having to roll out of bed and work up enough energy just to get out of a chair when I was pregnant with my son lol I'm feeling for her right now lol
But seriously they all look so stunning! You have a very beautiful herd on your hands. I am living Misty's personality just off of the pictures! You can see the total love between your daughter and her
I feel bad for her too, she's the one I posted about in the protein tub thread that is having trouble walking on her hind legs. I really think all that weight and a lot of it being on the left side is a lot for her. She's been our hardiest doe up to this point, so hopefully she'll bounce back as soon as kids are barn. She's so miserable :(
Misty is a real sweet heart, my daughter picked her out the minute she was born and they've had a very close relationship. She showed her as a kid, yearling and last year as a 2yo along with her late May babies. We kept her late May doe kid and I'm hoping she will really take off on growing this spring, she's a complete brat!

I have been waiting for your waiting post! Wysteria is quite bulky :p

Are Chloe and Harmony new? Do you still have Snow White?
Aww Thanks! :) We bought Chloe from a fellow TGS member when she was a weanling and we absolutely love her, she's a sweetie. She belongs to my son who adores her.
Harmony is a homebred - Luna's daughter.
Unfortunately we don't have Snow White anymore :( We made the difficult decision to sell her in summer of 16' and wish every day we could have kept her. She was so great with us, but was brutally mean to the other does. If I'd had a bigger place to separate her and maybe keep one of her daughters with her I would never have sold her.
 
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Well.... we're 9 days out from Wysteria's due date. She's so huge and miserable. I know I should believe there is a herd in there, but she's tricked me so many times.

This year is so different as she has so much trouble walking, no doubt due to that huge belly. It's expanding and stretching even lower to the ground which makes me nervous. A friend asked when we were talking about it today if she might have a hernia? But I never thought of that, I just figured after she kidded last year it filled with fluid, etc. As she has a permanent bulge behind her front left leg. Last time I felt, she had a baby there this year. I may hold her and feel for baby movement tomorrow just to see how far up that baby is on the lower left side.

Some awful pics from my phone late this afternoon, and an equally awful video. It's so hard to show that bulge on her belly and how wide she is. Hopefully she'll go on time, or dare I hope she'd go a couple of days early.











Doorway is around 3 1/2 to 4' wide





You can see in the video she is sore on her left hind foot/leg. Her belly is so big on the left, and all that weight as well makes it hard to walk. About 3 weeks or so she was up to 247lbs. (end of Sept 197), so I can imagine she has to be at least 260 if not more.
 
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I don’t think she has a hernia she is just HUGE! Poor girl. I had a doe that basically had a hernia, I think what it was explained to me as was her stomach wall gave out ????? I don’t know any ways it looked totally strange but I don’t see the same thing with your girl. I hope she gets the show on the road for you. They are going to be beautiful babies!
 
#22 ·
You have beautiful goats and gorgeous kids (human!). I want to thank you for sharing. I have a girl this year would is not due until the first week of March. She is doing the same thing on her left back. She is huge for being so far out. (And yes, checking ketones, calcium, etc.) I do think someone is laying on a nerve. She is slow going - your sharing the same issue helped me out tremedously - AND cant wait to see those baby pics!
 
#23 ·
Thanks Everyone, and Thank You Jessica for helping ease more worries about hernia! To me she just looked stretched out from having babies and her body made more room for them last year, and now even more so.

I honestly would be shocked if she only has twins with how big and miserable she is this year. I wish I could weigh her again, but I borrow a scale from our feed store, plus... 2-3" of snow on the ground so couldn't do it anyway since I weigh them on the level walkway next to the house.



I hope your doe will do just fine and not get overly miserable! She's within 8 weeks so hopefully it will go quickly! Just make sure she is eating well. Wysteria is an eating machine. She does NOT let her size stop her from plowing through everyone to get to the food lol!

Misty is a real sweetheart, we just love her so very much! Unfortunately even though she's a fairly big doe, she is low in the pecking order. But, she has her doe kid from last May as a buddy, and I can see that makes her very happy.
She is very affectionate, loves to snuggle and get/give kisses :)
She will be 3yo soon, and was born here. My daughter picked her as soon as she was born. She showed her for 3 past 3 summers, and is already making plans to show her again this summer lol.
These are older pics of Misty from kid to 2016 state fair. I don't have a good current picture of her May doe kid who is a traditional with dark color on her head. She has the same looks as Misty, who was a slower grower when she was young, and her daughter is the same way. Misty's regular weight is right at 200lbs. Although she isn't super wide, she has nice bone and length.










 
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I think your right about her. The old lady I had, the best way to explain it and doesn’t even do it justice is once you got past the ribs going back it was a insane downward fall where her stomach was. I really wish I had taken a picture of it. It also came on pretty sudden. She was largely Prego to start with but then it was like what in the world is going on!!
 
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LOL Wide Load! Yep, and let me tell you... Wysteria is one that does not get to eat in the barn, she is fed separately by the gate. She will plow through you to get to her feed! The only time she is in the barn is when she is close to kidding we'll feed her in there/stall her at night and when she is in with her babies.

I agree Jessica, it's crazy how it grows literately overnight! That 'bulge' behind her left leg didn't show up until late last pregnancy, was as if it wasn't there one day, but was the next. I was so worried! I felt it, and felt a baby moving and that eased my worries.
She's had a lopsided belly since then, even after kidding.

This was her at the beginning of her last pregnancy on Halloween in 2016 months before the 'bulge'... her expression is priceless lol




Early Oct 16'
 
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We had a snow day today, and it's so very cold BRRR! After today it will slowly start warming up, and I pray the forecast stays as it is unless it improves further! a high of 11 today and low tonight forecast at -2. Yuck.

Did get some random pics of the 4 legged brats today.







You notice, they keep their distance from her lol


Chloe due in 2 weeks




Harmony and Chloe (lol)


Luna


Misty, Luna, Harmony, Chloe and little goat on right is Ginger (Wysteria's grand daughter)


Rosalie - I haven't posted about her yet, she's our last doe due Mar 10th. I'll make her a separate thread closer to her due date


And.... my son's buck - check out Harmony in the background lol











 
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