Goat chat thread!!!! All friends welcome!!

[missbrit2006]

do you have a picture??

 

[MeredithW]

Hmmm I'm not good at that kind of stuff . . . but she looks like a cross to me . . .

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Looks like a saanen Nubian cross, or perhaps Boer mix, if she has milk coming in she must be pregnant, and how lucky you are to have a goat follow you home, she must have come from somewhere.

 

[missbrit2006]

No possibility she's a dairy goat there's been no males since I got here 3 and a half months ago

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It takes 5 month to make a kid, you said it looked like she has milk coming in, so I assumed she must be pregnant.

 

[missbrit2006]

Looks like a saanen Nubian cross, or perhaps Boer mix, if she has milk coming in she must be pregnant, and how lucky you are to have a goat follow you home, she must have come from somewhere.

Yes she has milk coming in there's a good possibility then that she could of got pregnant while at her other home where ever that was she was in the country I was walking and she happened to follow me. I've had her for 70 days how soon does the milk come in before she gives birth

 

[missbrit2006]

It takes 5 month to make a kid, you said it looked like she has milk coming in, so I assumed she must be pregnant.

She also has the waddles on her neck

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Bagging up is a sign of pregnancy, but each goat is different as to how soon before they start to do, so generally I have seen it start around a month before, it will really fill in in the last few days usually, and will sometimes start to leak the day of birth.

Wattles seem to be a personal thing some have them some don't, they seem more prominent in dairy breeds.

 

[missbrit2006]

Bagging up is a sign of pregnancy, but each goat is different as to how soon before they start to do, so generally I have seen it start around a month before, it will really fill in in the last few days usually, and will sometimes start to leak the day of birth.

Wattles seem to be a personal thing some have them some don't, they seem more prominent in dairy breeds.

Can a dairy goat produce milk with out having a kid

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

No, but you can keep a goat milking for quite a long time after, maybe 18 months before they might start to dry up, usually you breed so they are kidding every year for maximum production.