Due in August - picture UPDATE

Poptart is FINALLY showing signs she's probably pregnant heehee
Her udder is definitely developing even though she's not due 'till the end of August. She comes from a heavy milking line though!
She's had discharge for the past week and is acting aggressive toward her dam, which she hasn't done before.

She's 50% ND, 12.5% Alpine and 12.5% Nubian, and she was bred to a registered ND buck.
~~~ Here's the daddy buck.


SO EXCITED, she'll be a first time mama and I've never seen a nigerian dwarf kid before, only Lamanchas.



I'd say that's a good start to an udder!! ---

So exciting! The girl in my avatar is due 9/7. She has had an udder for about a month now and is HUGE

So tell me, do you love your goats more than your sheep yet? Hee hee!

LOL, Is your dad wondering where this will end.

Goats are more like dogs haha, and they seem to have an individual brain, unlike sheep, where it seems to be one brain spread among a thousand sheep. I LOVE THEM ALL.

--- How's Milly doing? She still enormous? ---

Pa doesn't mind that much lol as long as he gets to make goat cheese!
7 ewes
2 goats
2 alpacas
(though I might keep a doe out of Poptart if she has one. That way when Virginia passes I'll have another milk goat. Or I might just dry up Virginia because she's old and has warts and bald spots and is just a cranky old thing )

I'M SET. That's what I plan to keep. No more! That's all I can take care of at the moment budget-wise!

Though I am left wondering, "what's gonna happen when I move out in a year or two???"

Update on Poptart because she has about 20 days left to go

SHE'S ROUND
and angry
and hungry


here's her udder as of today

Looking good

I think I miscalculated and Poptart is actually due August 10th, instead of August 20th
OH BOY

Here's wishing you easy kidding and baby girls.

AH
So this year because I'm too old to show in 4-H I am volunteering at the county fair and I have the first day DONE
Every year there is this one guy and his father who bring basically their whole herd of boer goats to the fair. The goats are in a structure across from where the 4-H goats are and it's an "open showing" so no competition.
Yesterday when I was helping set up one of those boer goats had literally just had a kid. Like I walked past the pen and there weren't even shavings or straw in it yet and that poor mama goat kidded right on the cement! It honestly didn't look like the baby was breathing so I looked for the owners and they weren't even around!!! JEEZ. I was just about to jump over the gate and help the little kid, but the owner came over and they had to pull a second kid from the doe.
CRAZY
I didn't see them today so I have no idea if they are okay or not ugh. All the stress of traveling must have triggered the births.
It looks like another boer doe kidded last night as well because this morning there was this teeny little brown buckling with his front legs in casts. Wondering if he was pulled and injured or if his legs were just floppy when he was born? I dunno.
Either way WOW crazy day.

Also those boer goats were HUGE.
It wouldn't surprise me if the does were over 220lbs. Seriously, massive does.

Had to get up at 5am this morning though!
Went to bed around 1:30am so sleep was short heheh
Well worth it though. Everyone works so hard to make the fair happen and I am very excited to watch and help out with the swine and sheep market classes tomorrow.