Pregnant-Is it possible to have false heat?

Well usually when mine have a false heat they take on the second time :/
And between the CIDRS and if this was her first heat of the season I think it’s a good chance it was a false heat. Cidrs sometimes don’t trigger a real strong heat and false heats on their first heat are not totally uncommon. Basically the way it was explained to me was things have been resting and it gets a little rusty and doesn’t work like it should the first to around.
But I would defiantly ultrasound her and see what is going on. If she wasn’t gooey or flagging real hard it might have been another doe in heat. I know they can sometimes fool me around here on who exactly really is in heat and who is just acting like a fool

 

I have dairy goats, not Boers, but, I have had does that went into heat almost every 20 days their entire pregnancy, one doe insisted on being with the buck. I figured she wasn't bred and let her hang with a buck for 5 months, then she kidded! Surprise!!!
They can be confusing critters, for sure!

 

I really hope that's the case with my one doe, Mocha but unfortunately I kind of doubt it. I had her with the buck THREE TIMES over the fall, and even though she was flagging and yelling and the whole nine yards, when the buck actually went in with her she rejected him every time. She absolutely preferred my herd queen over every other suitor. I held her for the buck the first two cycles because she kept running away. I thought by holding her still we'd at least get the job done even if she wasn't happy about it but no, she came back into heat a third time! This last time I didn't bother trying to hold her. I put her with the buck and left them at it. If she didn't take I'm not going to pursue the matter any further this year. I've never had such a weird breeding season as this one.

 

I have read that it's common for them to go into heat again a month after they are settled although usually it won't be displayed as strongly as if they were actually in heat. So she may still be pregnant!

 

I've never had one cycle back in after breeding so I'm pretty sure Mocha is still open. My herd queen acted more like a buck than my bucks and she didn't want anything to do with the boys either! I know my guys are young and small and inexperienced and they don't stink like the big boys yet, but they're awfully cute and they sure tried their hardest to do a good job and make the ladies happy! But my girls were all bigger than the boys this year and had no love for the little pipsqueaks. I had to hold three of the four I bred. One was fairly willing but she was also very tall and got bred by the smaller buck so I backed her up to a step a couple of times just to be sure. I backed the others up to the step as well and it looks like my ornery herd queen took but Mocha didn't.

My herd queen spent all breeding season snorting, pawing, mounting and hunching like she truly believed something would pop out of her belly and start spraying if she just pushed hard enough. My in-heat girls found her extremely alluring. I began to wonder if there was a stash of "Modern Times" magazines from California hidden under their bedding somewhere. Girls usually do a lot of play-acting with each other this time of year, but not to this extent, and not to the exclusion of the actual real boys! It was bizarre.

I hope your girl took, but if she was acting in heat I'm going to guess the odds are that, like mine, she probably didn't.

 

I have a lot of short cycles just using a cidr, I make sure to leave the does with the buck for a week because of that.

I have had 3 does that came back into “heat” after being bred. 2 were ff that had been AIed and I thought they just didn’t settle but both showed bred on ultrasound a week later.

I have a new doe that had her ultrasound last week that’s flagging right now as I moved the buck into a stall in the doe barn to deal with his feet.

Before this year I’ve never seen a bred doe show signs of heat and I would’ve doubted they were actually bred.

 

I’ll keep my finger crossed for you!

 

Hey! This thread is so interesting
I have a doe that I bred a few weeks ago, and 3 weeks later she came into heat... but for less than one day? She was done by the time I got home from work. Im hoping to ultrasound her next week... we shall see...