So I am here hoping someone can help me figure out WHEN IN THE HECK my does will deliver! I found this site so thought I'd join and see if anyone can help!
2 years ago my hubby and I and our 5 daughters moved into the country and less than 30 days later my husband passed away, leaving me to my own devices! I have since acquired a whole farm full of animals to keep me from dwelling too much. I spontaneously bought some goats Sept of last year. The girls really wanted them.... me, not so much! I thought they looked weird and creepy. They didn't like me and they weren't all that friendly!
Over the next few months of milking them twice a day I grew to really love them. They were starting to lose milk so I rebred them in very late January to get them back in milk. Those two ladies were 1/2 Nigerian dwarf, 1/2 La mancha. Funny ears! At the same time I bought 3 ADGA and NDGA registered Nigerian Dwarf goats from OK. I really wanted smaller goats that could not jump my fence. They were about 4 months old at the time. So on July 1st my two original goats gave birth and the hormones in the air sent my little buck into full rut. I had been letting the 3 guys just run around together and never put much thought into him breeding them and me having no idea when they got pregnant! So sometime after July 1st he got the 2 Nigerian Dwarf does pregnant!
I'm going nuts! They are definitely pregnant but how far along?! If I feel their teats they have gotten a tiny bit longer and on one of them there is the udder area feels sorta squishy instead of flat along her belly now. Does that tell anyone about how far along she might be? At what point does the udder usually start to begin forming?
I know there is probably a ton of variation from one goat to another, just hoping maybe someone has enough experience to say... oh that *typically* happens about a month away or a week away or SOMETHING lol
2 years ago my hubby and I and our 5 daughters moved into the country and less than 30 days later my husband passed away, leaving me to my own devices! I have since acquired a whole farm full of animals to keep me from dwelling too much. I spontaneously bought some goats Sept of last year. The girls really wanted them.... me, not so much! I thought they looked weird and creepy. They didn't like me and they weren't all that friendly!
Over the next few months of milking them twice a day I grew to really love them. They were starting to lose milk so I rebred them in very late January to get them back in milk. Those two ladies were 1/2 Nigerian dwarf, 1/2 La mancha. Funny ears! At the same time I bought 3 ADGA and NDGA registered Nigerian Dwarf goats from OK. I really wanted smaller goats that could not jump my fence. They were about 4 months old at the time. So on July 1st my two original goats gave birth and the hormones in the air sent my little buck into full rut. I had been letting the 3 guys just run around together and never put much thought into him breeding them and me having no idea when they got pregnant! So sometime after July 1st he got the 2 Nigerian Dwarf does pregnant!
I'm going nuts! They are definitely pregnant but how far along?! If I feel their teats they have gotten a tiny bit longer and on one of them there is the udder area feels sorta squishy instead of flat along her belly now. Does that tell anyone about how far along she might be? At what point does the udder usually start to begin forming?
I know there is probably a ton of variation from one goat to another, just hoping maybe someone has enough experience to say... oh that *typically* happens about a month away or a week away or SOMETHING lol
