GoodEnuff Farm Kidding Thread Late 20-21

Decided that I needed to start a thread for my girls because otherwise, I will be creating way too many threads. I am including my grandma’s goats as well since she doesn’t have an account nor a farm name. We are expecting babies starting (boer) December 20-sometime in March or April (boer, Nigerian, and guernsey). The December boer girls that are first-fresheners have udders forming already and they have huge bellies! It’s hard to get pictures and the camera makes them look smaller than they are. Has anyone used a pregtoner before? I was basically given one this year and I love it! Just wondering if there’s any tricks to getting it to detect amniotic fluid in girls that carry their babies weird? My Nigerian doe should be bred and yesterday, I could sometimes get it to detect a body of fluid (definitely not her bladder) but it was a weird spot. She definitely carries her babies lower than most goats. I am still going to draw blood to get a for sure positive since I’m still new to the pregtoner, but any tips would be appreciated!

 

Sorry, just saw this! A pregtoner is kind of like an ultrasound but there’s no screen, just a beeping sound. It will flatline once it detects a body of fluid. There are a fair amount of false positives with them since people tend to aim them at their bladder but I haven’t had a false one yet since you aim the wand a bit further forward.

 

So this is probably one of the first does bred and she’s huge! She’s a first timer so we probably couldn’t even take a somewhat accurate guess on how many she has in there.

November 13
November 24 To top it all off, she’s already swollen back there and the first possible due date is Dec. 20th!

 

I was able to go out and visit the Boers today; we’re all taking bets on who is going to kid first since the three December first timers have the same due date [Dec. 17]. They all are loose/swollen and have beautiful udders (sorry if that sounds weird for Boers but I do the dairy while mom and grandparents do the meat).

Norma Jean
Rainy
Oreo

Also got a pic of the girl that is due about a week after the three, Bratty. Poor girl’s tummy just about touches the ground.

January due date girls:

Scarlett (January’s only non-first timer)
Kimber
Fern
And I somehow didn’t get a picture of Sky, but oh well.

The rest of the goaties are due later in the year. Getting close!

 

Oh their getting so close that it's making me antsy!! The girl that's due in later-December is so wide that she can barely squat to go pee. Her tummy just about touches the ground but her tummy is built weird anyway so who knows if babies have dropped or not; if they haven't then her tummy will most definitely be dragging on the ground. The pics are from a week ago. View attachment 192949 View attachment 192951 View attachment 192955 View attachment 192953

 

So I think that I'm gonna win the bet; my grandma sent this pic the morning and I have my overalls and boots at the ready! This one is Oreo, the black and white doe.

 

So I went over to see the goats yesterday evening and I think that the first does will kid tomorrow. It's a race between Oreo and Bratty. Both girls are so big and they look miserable, poor girls. View attachment 193001