Pygmy goats justation

A pygmy goats gestation period last about five months from the time they are bred. (Approximately 145-153 days) I have a few does (girls) that go up to 160 days. There are various ways to tell if she is pregnant. Like getting and ultrasound, take her to the vet, etc. But there is a at home, priceless test. It is called bumping. You push your fist into one side of her stomach, right in the middle. Then the other fist on the other side. old one still and push various times with the other. You should feel a fetus bouncing lightly off your hand that is still. This is hard to do if you dont know what you are feeling for. So you should give me a call to take a look at her.

She wont be starting to gather an udder until about a month before she is due. She also will not begin to be agitated until about 24 hours before she becomes into full our labor.

One month before she is suspected to be do you must give her a BOSE shot. This is a vitamin E and Selinium shot. This helps unsure the babies strong bones at birth and also their overall health. This helps them from being deformed at birth as well. Although it does not cure the chances it helps deminish them. This is also important because the mother uses nutrients from her bones to take care of her growing baby so she gets weak bones as well. This shot helps build it back up agian in preparation for labor.

Pygmy goats are also notorius for needing assistance in thier births. I have birthed 20+ kiddings and there have only been 2 that I have not needed to assist on. Even if you dont assist on them, you must help the mother out after the birth. Your job is to semi dry the baby, clean its throat and nose out with a human baby nose sucker. You also must make sure that the barn, or kidding area is not too hot or too cold.

If she is two months out then you must be really careful about the heat. When kids are born the are not able to directly regulate thier own tempurature. It takes them about three days to do so. Shade is not enough for them in the heat. a fan, and mister are all options to cool the area down. Do not bring them inside because then the babies will learn to regulate the inside temp and not the outside temp.

There is so much more I could tell you about this so if you have any questions feel free to call me.

Tiffany Cecil

208-362-5338

Boise, ID 

Here is a link for you ---  linhttp://kinne.net/pregdiag.htmk

for you with lots of interesting things on goat pregnancy. The usual time for gestation is about 5 months. But read this and it will tell you other things to do to tell if she is pregnant. Good Luck!  

I just had a pygmy goat have a baby a couple of days ago.  She carried him for 5 months.  The signs she had was she filled up with milk, and not to be gross, but under her tail she had a discharge, and swollen.  A couple of days before birthing, she bedded down alot.  I also heard that pygmy's have trouble, luckly ours didn't, cause w were gone when she had him.