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Super Steve 03-15-2013 19:58:54 68.171.231.85 Report to Moderator	How come animals have to have babies at night? I've got a goat at one farm ready to kid anytime now and a cow at another farm ready to calve anytime now, so I've been going back and forth watching them and even caught a power nap in the truck. [Reply]   [No Email]
Don-Wi 03-16-2013 13:39:31 75.205.88.116 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   Dad just went through that Thursday night. He went to check the barn around 11:30, and saw a pair of feet sticking out. He came back a 1/2 hour later and the calf was there. He drug it around in front of the mom and did the other duties of a fresh calf, then went to bed. He got up and went out again at about 6:30 in the morning to check on them, everything was fine. Went back to the house, got his coffee and a bite ot eat. Came back out a 1/2 hr later and another one had calved. Took him till after 11 that morning to finish morning chores because Mom had to go to work so she couldn't stay to help. Donovan from Wisconsin   [Reply]  [No Email]
Craig2 03-16-2013 13:34:17 64.12.116.74 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   On the eighth day God made a farmer cuz someone has to care for the critters   [Reply]  [No Email]
Hendrik 03-16-2013 12:48:56 194.53.253.51 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   My father told many stories about the draft horses he and Granddad farmed with. Over the years they had many a foal out of their mares. Although they checked on the mares frequently, he never saw a foal being delivered and ... they were ALL born during the night.   [Reply]  [No Email]
nebraska cowman 03-16-2013 16:34:28 166.182.3.219 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Hendrik, 03-16-2013 12:48:56   An old horseman told me once the best place to foal a horse was a big pasture. Because if the mare had trouble you were going to loose the foal anyway.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Rick Kr 03-16-2013 11:16:44 198.105.227.102 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   A watched pot never boils. As soon as you leave it will happen. Bad luck? good luck? I dont know, but that would be my luck. Or move them to the same place. Rick   [Reply]  [No Email]
donjr 03-16-2013 09:46:09 72.71.188.246 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   We feed in the evening, and our cows usually calve during the day hours. Most of the morning feeders will calve at night. It makes things a bit easier- they'll stand off from the rest of the herd and are usually easier to spot. Most of them will calve in the afternoon hours.   [Reply]  [No Email]
DoubleR 03-16-2013 07:15:22 198.105.230.174 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   I think like the other poster. Take care of the calf and to heck with the goat. Although they will probably both do ok without your presence.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Wheat Farmer 03-16-2013 07:07:16 174.22.134.211 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   Most Alpacas (Cria) are born between 7:00am and 2:00pm. The only problem is Normal gestation is from 314 to 365 days.   [Reply]  [No Email]
pete black 03-16-2013 06:46:00 166.205.68.30 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   I suspect that 99.9% of all animals are born without human presence.   [Reply]  [No Email]
hd6gtom 03-16-2013 06:12:53 63.153.198.116 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   Steve take care of the calf, dam goats can go to +++++++   [Reply]  [No Email]
Traditional Farmer 03-16-2013 04:57:39 67.233.75.46 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   Most of my goats kid in the middle of the day of course they're Kikos so they're smarter than average goats(LOL)   [Reply]  [No Email]
Dr. Walt 03-17-2013 18:22:51 12.2.223.79 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Traditional Farmer, 03-16-2013 04:57:39   If your Goats are so smart, how come they're not delivering in the Maternity Ward of the local Vet. Hospital, where you can pace up & down the hall passing out cigars to all the other Goats like a normal expectant father? HA-HA, just Kidding (pun intended).   [Reply]  [No Email]
Just Another Old Geezer 03-16-2013 04:46:32 216.105.208.2 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   sleep depravation is part of animal agriculture. deal with it. I have for 40 years.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Mark - IN. 03-16-2013 00:50:10 50.121.102.192 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   Because watching you stagger around punch drunk is part of their get even. Take their cell phones away so they can't talk or scheme, and they will knock it off. As someone else said, move the goat to near the cow. If I were you, I would pull out my pocket watch and start swinging it back and forth while staring at it, mumbling, "I'm getting sleepy, sleepy, sleeeeeepy..." Mark   [Reply]  [No Email]
caterpillar guy 03-15-2013 21:38:30 75.128.147.61 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   Move the goat to the cow? Save the running.   [Reply]  [No Email]
bison 03-15-2013 21:54:14 69.168.144.142 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to caterpillar guy, 03-15-2013 21:38:30   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to seeGreat idea :wink: To the OP.if you feed your cow(s) in the afternoon changes are she/they won't calve during the night,anyway that is my experience. I don't know about the goat though,they always had a mind of their own.   [Reply]  [No Email]
onefarmer 03-15-2013 20:44:19 184.20.108.101 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   Time for a webcam?   [Reply]  [No Email]
John B. 03-16-2013 06:23:16 38.114.64.166 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to onefarmer, 03-15-2013 20:44:19   I was thinking more on the line of a baby monitor...LOL   [Reply]  [No Email]
Super Steve 03-15-2013 20:51:31 68.171.231.83 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to onefarmer, 03-15-2013 20:44:19   The thought has seriously crossed my mind but neither farm has internet so it would be another expense. For now I will just camp out in the truck   [Reply]  [No Email]
David G 03-15-2013 20:04:48 205.215.206.18 Report to Moderator	Re: playing the waiting game in reply to Super Steve, 03-15-2013 19:58:54   I think it goes way back in instinct that animals are more protected at night.   [Reply]  [No Email]