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R Corner Ranch waiting for first kidding

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View attachment 200429 View attachment 200427 Shamrock is due today (was possibly due yesterday), and I can tell she wants them out. She has to try to adjust the babies and pee leaning to the side. Pictures are from yesterday. I feel body parts moving around in there. Sometimes you can see them kick. There isn't much change today so far. No goop yet. Udder is tight, but I bet it could grow more. Her sister, orange and white, I am concerned is NOT pregnant. She is about 10-12 days from kidding. Her vulva looks like it did months ago. No udder. She doesn't seem to have any interest in bucks, and I haven't noticed a definite heat cycle. She was really wooly this winter and has about an inch and a half of floof around her body making her look bigger. Any guesses on if she seems pregnant? If she doesn't have babies, I think we could handle adding a Nubian doeling or two to the farm this spring/summer which I am really looking forward to. No complaints if she doesn't pop out anything. Shamrock though! Super pregnant! We had 13 turkeys hatch over the past 24 hours, so I don't mind if she waits a few days to add her own kids in the mix.
 
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She’s acting funny today. Louder, tried to crawl under her sleeping shelf in the pen, got on the sleeping shelf and martial arts flipped on her side in mid air to lay down instead of laying down like a normal goat. I still think she has a few days left (up to 5 days I’d guess). I’m still not completely convinced Treasure isn’t pregnant because she does pregnancy stretches and it seems like something moves. I’m hoping I was off with the date I thought she was in heat. She was in with the buck for a month. Whenever Shamrock kids, I’ll add 2 weeks to it and if Treasure doesn’t have a baby around then I will know it didn’t take.
 
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Vulva is looking a bit different today and she seems hyper. Tomorrow maybe? I’m going to take her and her sister for a little walk and let them lay around on the driveway if they want to bask in the sunshine today. I read an article that described goats with multiples as “boats” that snore. LOL. I don’t know if she appreciates being called that!
 

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She is talking nonstop. Enjoying the sunshine right now. Oop! Spoke too soon! She keeps going back into her pen. Just noticed she's starting to have some discharge. Literally started as I was typing this. I think I know what people mean now when they describe "ligaments are gone." You know it when you feel it. She is getting VERY loud. I'm going to put her back in the pen.
 
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