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the Kidding Pen.   For all practical purposes,  Done.

 


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there are two partitions like this one.  They are removable.  To open the entire space which would be the case when there are not kidding does,  when it's the Milking Station.  

Daughter dreamed it up this way because it looked like there might be multiple births…?

We don't know what to do.  They are still fat.  Especially Celia.  They are still calm.  as in not coming into heat.  The Bucks are still peaceful as in not performing all the rut behaviors.   We are at the point of wanting to call the Vet back….if her  Ultrasound is working….?….     But does she know what she's doing?   Goats are different to some degree than other livestock.  We sit…look off and Wonder What To Do,  or the other option is to just wait.  See what happens.  They have totally recovered from the Evacuation.  Are all well and normal.   Maybe just wait?  or Not.    ??????????????

 

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  1. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Gestation is 148-152 days with average being 150 days. So does that april / may timeline fit the “sighting”?
    The birthing pen is beautiful. Very well done. You guys have gotten some great carpentry skills.

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  2. Michelle Slater Avatar
    Michelle Slater

    Well done. What a team you are.

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  3. Patty Avatar
    Patty

    Creative work – your pen building!

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  4. jude Avatar
    jude

    in perspective, patchwork

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    well…we are over the time line i think?
    Jenny made it up…the construction…watched Utubes
    for basics, but made the moveable separations up,
    she was funny, the day she brought the woven white for
    the gate…she knows my thing about anything but wood,
    but explained how it would enable the gate to be lightweight. decided she’s take the “risk”

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    we can be

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s another first

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    and as we know, perspective rules

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  9. Joanne Avatar
    Joanne

    You’ve had baby goats before, right? How does it look-feel–to you? Are they “fatter” than when the Vet checked them with her hands? I’m thinking 135 days. May June July August plus 15 days of September and however many April days added……
    I think your daughter designs and builds beautiful fences and pens. With love.

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  10. Sue in Calgary Avatar
    Sue in Calgary

    Gosh, I’m holding my breath here! Just know I know nothing about goats or livestock. But if you haven’t seen this yet, it does present some options for determining your situation: https://thriftyhomesteader.com/is-my-goat-pregnan/ Hope things become clearer!

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  11. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    That was a great link! Thanks. I know what I’ll be reading this week.

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  12. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Ah, the mother/daughter relationship is forever!

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    we are running out of due dates…so mysterious….??????
    and yes. she designs in her dreams. This whole Place has been designed by her dreams

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. all TRUE, but still, no KIds…??????

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    when i was wanting to leave Michigan, leave the only life i knew, LEAVE IT,
    i went to Cathy Florida, a psychic, an astrologer, a Teacher of Meditation. I went to her Place and entered her front porch. There were many elephants of all kinds. Birds in large cages, fluttering. I sat. Waiting. Over time, she came out and asked me in. We sat. In silence, a long time. She clipped a piece of my hair, like the Buddhists do and placed it in her bible. She prayed. To Everyone.
    Everyone. Any Being that might be prayed to.
    And then asked me why i’d come. I told her of the intensity with my relationship with Jenny, how she now had this infant, Alyssia. I told her all of it.
    She sat with my story and sat and then said. There is Fire. But it is a bonfire. There will always be coals from this fire. But it will never BURN. coals. Just coals. She said that i would end up somewhere that began with C. She could not see more. Just that. C
    Well…how about California? at that time, nearly almost 30 years ago? ?????? I wish she were still living. I could ask her. To look into her “book”…what does she see now?
    She was the one that taught me to meditate. I still go there. Everyday, to what she taught me.

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  16. jaime Avatar
    jaime

    Hormonal false pregnancy?

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  17. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    sure wish Luci had something this nice …

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i doubt it, not all of them

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i wish it too…how she would feel, sheltered

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