It's good your building a pen. 24 hours is enough bonding time in warm weather. In below 25 degree weather I would keep them under a heat bulb 3 or 4 days. Get them out of pen conditions as soon as you think they're good. Some first timers can do crazy stuff. They don't understand what is going on. Don't worry to much. Let them do their thing. Whatever time you usually feed them often times ends up being the kidding time.

This little nanny had a set of twins when she was 11 months old. It was funny to see them play together just like she was little as one of them.



This nanny was also 11 months old when she had a single kid.

Awesome Cedar Hacker! That one kid looks just like it’s mother.

Well our goat was pregnant after all and had a healthy boy this afternoon! One month after I initially made this post asking if the experts thought she would be pregnant.
Our other goat is pregnant too! Hope she has twins!!

You goat lover !

Where's Rev when ya need advise.

You should dry the kid off more and dip the umbilical cord in iodine. If your area is low in selenium, like ours is, give it the shot or the oral selenium and E.

Keith

We have an acrobat kid.

Thing will jump 5' straight up and over fence.

So did their bags swell up like no other the week they dropped?

They filled up very slowly for 1 month. About every 7 days I could notice the bag was a bit bigger than before. And this last week wasn’t all that different. But today she pushed the door open and was out eating leaves from the low branches and I thought she’s prob getting close to labor. She’s never pushed the door open before.

The other goat seems to be a couple weeks behind this one in pregnancy. But who really knows lol.

Did your other goat drop yet?

How is your first kid doing?

I need to put about 40 does with 2 bucks, by the end of the month to produce kids for the 4H market.

Here's some of the kids we had born in May.










Keith

Hey Keith, those are some good looking goats!

Yes my other goat had her kid June 8th, only 6 days after the first one had hers. She had a girl and we named her Java. Mom’s name is Mocha.

This is her the day she was born.







I should go take some pics of both the kids tomorrow if I have time. Both looking good and healthy. I’ll wait for November/December to breed them again.

Just had to add some finishing touches. How are they kids doing now.

Nice goat thread, man I miss our goat's.