Lily is no longer pregnant ! |Poppy is Recovering :) |

You need to breath into a paper bag so you won't hyperventilate from a panic attack! Calm down - she will probably have her lambs when you aren't looking and all that stress will just give you gray hair! Can't waiot to see the pix.

Good Luck.....and keep calm.

Still no lamb

Her Vulva is red, udder swollen! Sides sunken, restless! Ugh it could be any second

Also she had a double stream when she peed.

Nothing yet

Does she look ready!?

not sure, doesn't look really puffy back there but we only have goats. Hang in there

I can't tell, but lately we have had two surprise lambings that I would have sworn were not due for another couple months! LOL With the goats I could tell because I hand bred. Was Lily running with the flock and ram? Our ewes go back with the ram when their lambs are 2 months old. I don't use a marking harness on the field because I am afraid he wilI get it stuck in the brush. I probably should keep him in a small pen and turn the ewes in there until they are marked but . . . . It is so hard when you don't have a definite date. 5 months and 5 days is standard - any idea when she was bred?

Saw this on her vulva after she peed. She is panting kinda hard atm and it isnt that hot out..

They often pant if the baby shoves into the lung area. If she pants, then pauses like she's holding her breath for several seconds, then pants again she might be starting. she might also just be bringing up cud, so if she starts chewing after pausing and "holding her breath" she was just bringing up cud. If she is in labor, after she pants, hold breath, pants, hoilds breath,k poants, she will get up and paw the ground then lay down and do the same thing for a while. When she is in hard labor you will see her body tense when she is between pants. That's when you know the baby is coming. When she starts pushing it is very obvious. Watch for the toes with a nose on top of them. Pushing labor is when you start counting in case of trouble. there won;'t be any but you will imagine all sorts of things until the baby is out. It never changes, no matter how many you see born the anticipation and fear of trouble is there. I have pulled hundreds of kids and lambs and seen 3x that many born but the excitement never goes away. I can't tell you how many hours I have spent hanging through the barn window waiting - if I had even a penny for each hour I would be a wealthy woman (and able to afford barn help LOL).