What You Need To Be Prepared For Your Goat To Give Birth
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Oh this is all great info! Thank you 😊
Wow! You are really prepared! Those mamas are grateful I’m sure. It’s nice to see people prepared with the right tools ahead of time like you. I’m excited and can’t wait to watch your upcoming kidding videos!
I'm excited toooooo!!! :)
I feel like you could deliver your grand baby...Lol!!!
Hahahaa! Hope I wouldn't need to but I'm sure I could if needed! 😂
Hahahhaa. But if you needed me too you would be very glad :)
The Kidding Kit, in a bucket🤙🏼Brilliant🇨🇦
Now lets see those babies! I mean KIDS!!!! =) I've been subscribed to you for months now watching your videos and I don't even want or have goats. Good luck with all your kidding!
Lol!! Thank you for watching :)
Great info!! Thanks for sharing Teacher! ☺️
This is so informative Crystal, thank you!
This is very useful thankyou so much we will have babys next year
I love watching your videos! I have learned a lot from you.. thanks for taking the time to educate your viewers..
I just want to say Thank You! for the videos!!! I have learned a lot watching them. Plus it was watching your channel that helped my husband and I decide to get Nigerians ourselves! Loving our new homesteading life! :)
Such good info, do you have a video of the things you need to give the herd regurlarly shots vit, ect,
You are awesome, thank you for the info!
Thanks for this video! Just bought the last few things for my kidding kit.
This is super informative as we have 6 pregnant Nigerians I didn’t even thing to get a lamb puller just in case. Thanks for always having great content.
Crystal, I just reviewed this video again, and I am so grateful you posted it. I think it fulfills a real need. You mention Selenium and the critical need for it in areas of the country that are Selenium deficient. You go into it more here, how to diagnose kids who have a deficiency, which is lifesaving information. I've found a few videos on YT showing newborn kids with what looks like Selenium deficiency (could be something else). I learned it's far more important than I realized 2 years ago! I hope you repost this video again. Such great information.
We were just going through our birthing box. Helped to remind me of a couple of things I need to pick up. Thinking pink and wishing a healthy & happy kidding season to you!
Yessss pink!! Happy kidding to you as well!
Great information I'm glad I found your videos. I'm not yet ready to get my goats but your helping me learn what I need to have goats. I'll be looking to you for all my needs of learning about them your a great teacher. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Thank you!! :)
Thank you Crystal for great info! You are always so consise and helpful :) I'm hoping my does are pregnant. I can test one this weekend, yay!
Oh yay! Hoping with you :)
Thanks a million! My doe is due to have hers in like a few hours! 💕💕💕
Great video thankyou 👍👍👍
Thank you
This was very valuable for my goats over all. We are not even close with thinking about breeding. Just trying to learn from the two we have got them July 2018. I need to buy a few of these item to have on hand for general use. I would love to see a video about what you use and have on hand for general care. And maintenance. Also love to hear what works and things you tried and that doesn’t work. I read 3 books on goats before getting 2 and man in general newbies need a lot more knowledge than what’s on paper. Thanks for the amazon links much appreciated.
With goats, the learning never stops :)
I have been looking for this information.. Now I can prepare for that 😁😍😘😘😘...I'm thankful to God for this opportunity
Thank you, I have to rebuild my birthing kit..
Love all of your videos! Very informative. Quick question: do you find that a doe carrying a singlet has a longer gestation than the same doe when she's carrying triplets or quads? In other words, if she is carrying more babies does she tend to go into labor sooner? Thanks!
Honestly I have not experienced that in my herd. They are all usually super close to the 145 day mark if they have 4 or one. That being said, the couple times I have had a doe go earlier than the 145 day mark, they had 3 or 4 kids.
Well done! Thank you, Cristal! One question; have you found a bulb syringe is more trouble than it's worth? : )
I have never used one. I have thought about it but certainly make due without :)
@@BlueCactusDairyGoats -- I hear you about the bulb syringe; always used them at work on C-section babies, but never needed them when my children were born (at home) One of those items they always told us to have & never needed it, lol. Stay dry, it's raining pitchforks here in SoCal!
Haha! We are getting rained on too! I have so much work to do outside!!
Hi Crystal! Your weather has been kind of changeable lately --- if you have inclement weather, can you move a doe in labor to a covered place or do you need to let them kid where they are? Btw, good, informative video!
You can move them if needed.
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Thanks for this video! I have 3 does due any day, this will be our first kidding on our ranch. I have my 3 does penned together, should I separate them when they are closer to active labor? It seems to stress them out being separated so I’ve been keeping them all together for now.
Goats do like to have a quiet place to kid. If you catch one in labor I would pull the rest to let her be calm and deliver. Plus you want to have her and the kids time to bond well. That is usually a few days to a week. Hope that helps..
Yes thank you, I’ve been keeping a very close eye on them so I will start separating them when they are closer!
I agree to the previous comment. I like to let them get comfortable with their own pen at least a few days before they kid. They enjoy the private space when labor starts and they have kids.
Thanks! Very excited for my new babies and yours!! Love your videos, thanks for sharing
Very helpful to see what people do to prepare. Lets hope these mamma's kid naturally and you don't have to assist. 👍
Yes!!
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Have a great day to you and your family Crystal. A very special delivery is coming and now I’m waiting with you. I have dinner with mine last night. I wanted to give her a phone to call me. My son says she’ll call to China’s and everywhere, I think they’re limited. Will you be there to aid in delivery?
I will be by my daughters side, yes :).
Great video, we just waiting on our girls now. Today was a due date to no showing. You know how they are.
Haha! Yes. Yes I do!
volume did seem very loud had to turn my comp all the way up and could very hear you
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Hi. My family and I are going to be getting goats hopefully this spring or summer. Once the goats are old enough we plan on breeding them. With the umbilical cord, after you cut it and put iodine on it, what happens after that? Do you cut it more later? Does the mom take care of it?
We cut it about an inch long then cover in iodine. This will dry it up faster and kills any bacteria. If you see the next day it isnt very dry, put more iodine on it and you should be good. Never cut too short. It will fall off on it's own:)
@@BlueCactusDairyGoats ok. Thank you so much!🙃
I have a doe think is pregnant but she id a first time the male smells her but doesn't mess with her only the other female she has quite a large vulva but it's just starting to bag up is she pregnant??
My dairy goat head butted her day old baby goat. She is a young mother. I took the baby goat out of her pin and plan on bottle feeding the baby with it's mothers milk. Is this the best way to go? I was worried the mommy goat would hurt her baby.
Crystal, our Nigerian Dwarf doe just gave birth to twins (Victor and Violet) on February 6, 2019. When is your closest guess as to when our doe will go back into heat after having just given birth? We LOVE our babies, but don't want her bred again any time soon. Please let me know. Thanks! (This video was very helpful.)
They can go back into heat very soon!! Like labor and a couple weeks in heat again.
YIKES! Sooner than the regular 21 day cycle?
It can happen yep.
Looking for tips, I'm a first time goat owner. We took a three week old buckling from our four year old Nigerian dwarf to bottle feed him. He's taking a bottle well. But my doe is sooo sad, psycho sad. Is this normal?? How many oz's should he be getting at 9 lbs. Since being with his mom so long it seems like he only wants to drink a couple oz's at a time. That isn't gonna work. Any tips on that would be appreciated too. Thank you.
This is one of the reasons we started pulling kids at a couple days old. So much easier on all involved. Three weeks is a hard age to separate. So much harder on the baby and mama. Yes it's normal for mom to be sad at that age of separation. How many days has it been? I will link a couple videos that may help.
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Lesson learned, I'll tell ya! Today was day two. It was somewhat better, not good though. Not to mention the poor girl is being milked and on a milk stand for the first time in her life (4 years old). But she was a bit better on the stand tonight, and didn't squat! :) Thanks for all you do in helping me through this goat life.
Thanks Crystal love ur videos we are all kidding here you would not guess we had mostly 3 each boer goat except one she had 4 lol... The only one left to kid is my saanen.
Nice numbers!! Congrats!
@@BlueCactusDairyGoats thank u the momma goats look like they need something to get back would u recomend the vitamin b complex for them
Yes. You can give it every day as well.
Thank u! Sending you Lots of love from Texas
Was your puppy found?
No :(
@@BlueCactusDairyGoats I am so sad to hear :-(
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First of all I have to say that I don't know very much about goats. That said- howcome people are always pulling kids out of the dam? It seems like that's something the animals would be able to handle themselves if the sizes of the parents were chosen well for breeding. Right now I do want goats, but if they need a bunch of assistance to give birth, maybe I don't after all. And I understand being prepared and that sometimes things happen, but it seems like (at least on the people I watch on here with goats) that everyone has to haul the kids out because they get stuck. Is that accurate or are maybe the people I'm watching just impatient?
Sometimes I think the babies just grow to big. Choosing the right size buck helps greatly. Our buck is a lot smaller then our does so our kids slide right out so far..hope that helps..
I have only had to assist a hand full of times. Assisting would be worst case and in most cases they do just fine by themselves.
I’ve raised goats for 15 years and only had to assist once,I overfed the doe and the kid ended up very large. It didn’t position correctly. As long as pregnant does are fed the proper diet and are in good health you will rarely run into issues. I see people pulling on kids all the time in videos but that is unnecessary 99% of the time. That said,it is always best to be present for kidding just in case. 😊 I wouldn’t let the small possibility of complications scare you away from raising goats.