Today, Priscilla is 4 months pregnant.
Priscilla 2-20-12
We only have 30 days now to go until Priscilla's due date of March 20, 2012. She is doing really well still. Eating lots and looking pregnant more and more each day.
Today I gave her a CD&T vaccination. Its a yearly vaccination that we give here that helps with a few different things in maintaining a healthy goat and herd. We give this vaccination to all adult goats once a year. Expecting moms get it 1 month before kidding to help with passing along immunity to the kids through their colostrum when the kids first nurse. Kids will then get their own vaccination at 2 months old and a booster 4 weeks later and then once a year from then on. Priscilla of course did wonderfully, didn't even act like she knew I was giving it to her as she was chowing down on her grain.
Sometime this week I will go ahead and order some essentials I will need to have on hand for the kidding. Priscilla will also have her hooves trimmed in a few weeks so i won't need to bother her for awhile about that after she gives birth.
I've started to spend more time looking at Priscilla closely each day to watch the changes that are developing, like her baby bumps and any change in size of her udder, which will get bigger, filling with milk as she gets closer to delivery. Also I have been feeling very lightly on her sides and was rewarded the other day with feeling one of the babies kick. Which was amazing!!!!
Here are some pictures I took of her today, 2-20-12 at 4 months pregnant.
Priscilla on the milking stand
Priscilla eating hay
Priscilla eating hay
Priscilla with Windy who hopefully is also expecting
So exciting.
ReplyDeleteWe are very excited Jennifer to have our first baby goats here on the farm.
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