Itty Bitty Hooves

A Little Cooperation Please

July 4, 2008 on 2:59 pm | In boers, farm, life, bucks, does |

I sure wish my goats would learn to cooperate with me just a little bit. I have one… just one single goat that MIGHT be due to kid this summer. In fact in the next couple of weeks. Anytime between now and the 21st if she was already bred when I got her (which I’m seriously hoping she was). If she doesn’t kid in that time frame it will be early fall and it will be my buck’s offspring, which is fine too because they’ll be the first 100% ones born on the property. If she has a kid from the other buck it will be 100% too which is what I want… and a buck… (talk about being specific huh?) which I probably won’t get. My luck it will be a doe kid. Good to have too since it would be an unrelated doe kid to my buck but I really need an unrelated buck kid. Anyway, back to the cooperation… she’s not.

She doesn’t show any signs of being pregnant. I had a goat earlier this year like that. Looked completely normal. Of course, completely normal means big as a tank anyway. Even with being a really big framed goat though she didn’t have the ‘watermellon’ look that you pretty much expect from a goat in the final months. She ended up giving me three kids–so she was definately pregnant wouldn’t you say?

Bowie (the current goat in question) is a large, meaty, big-framed girl too, so there’s plenty of room in there for a kid or two, or three to hide, but the not knowing is just driving me crazy. I wish my goats would cooperate a little and have the decency to LOOK pregnant when they are. Even my vetran doe Polly hid it pretty well this spring, but she always does, and she always only has one kid… One big kid, but just one.

Thankfully all the rest of my girls had the good graces too look like water tankers during the final weeks, so there was no question as to their pregnant status.

A little cooperation from Bowie right now would be really nice.