Preggers Goat Bellies =) New Pics Pg 3

[2manyhats]

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Twins are the best. Triplets often end in a bottle baby. Momma often kicks off the runt. I have 3 does due sometime, but no idea of due dates. Bought them as adults and a juvie buck. He has been mature this fall. I guess we'll figure it out if we keep watching. The girls are starting to look silly. The little billy, Seamus, is just looking chubby. I can't wait to see those babies. The little lambs, too.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

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Does that mean your DD can not show her? Or does tha mean she will show her but in a different class? Babies, that could be fun?

 

[helmstead]

Buff - You're in,

MP - I bet it's just your good food...but who knows? Pics?

 

[Western Chick]

My little experience with goats (one kidding season) tells me that does are the ultimate FAKERS! I had one girl that was three feet across when I bought her as exposed, I thought for sure she was preggers but oh no, she waited for my buck to do the job.

Two of my other yearlings bagged up with tight udders six weeks before kidding. I was on pins and needles all six weeks waiting for them to pop out some babies.

Pygmies especially crack me up. They seem to get wider with each pregnancy. I've seen some that look ready to pop only to find out they had just kidded!

I've heard that they also fake being in labor, beware!

 

[MissPrissy]

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Does that mean your DD can not show her? Or does tha mean she will show her but in a different class? Babies, that could be fun?

No. She is a dairy class goat.

We don't breed until our does are 1 year old. I bought this one under the understanding she was under 6 months old and not bred. It seems now she may already be bred -which I do not like at all. She is super tiny - Like a small/med beagle pup. I am very uncomfortable breeding tiny size on top of very young.

I'll get some photos this week, Kate.

 

[helmstead]

Yup, nothing exciting about a possibly bred, immature doe. Hope she's just fat and happy. Which month did you purchase her? How long will you have to worry?

 

[Jenlyn9483]

Helmstead,

Thats funny, I have a prego Anna Belle too, I have no idea when she was bred, she was prego when I got her. She is about the size of Emma now. She is Smaller sized Ober. February is the absolute fartherst that she could go considering. Im thinking end of Dec to Middle January.

 

[MissPrissy]

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We brought her home 9/22. we were told she was just under 6 months old.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=91241

She is very wide now compared to these photos. But her bag doesn't look any different - yet.

My oldest DD says she thinks she feels pregnant. She massaged her belly and tried to see if she could tell anything and she felt what she called a large mass that would move.

I suppose anytime between now and Feb???

 

[helmstead]

I really bet she was bumping her rumen around - it feels like you would think a uterus would. I've never been able to feel kids inside until the last weeks of pregnancy - when the udder is already in. You can ONLY feel kids on the right side or if you bump the abdominal wall in front of the udder and feel them bounce off of it. Left side is all rumen. Some people also fool themselves when they hit the ligament that supports the abdomen from the hip.

Looks like your last possible due date is around 2/18. My does due in Feb (well the couple that may have settled) don't look preggers yet.

Oy

 

[MissPrissy]

okay, Kate

here she was on 9/23 -

here she is now 11/18 - i took these tonight