playing the waiting game

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.
 
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
 
(quoted from post at 21:38:30 03/15/13) Move the goat to the cow? Save the running.
reat 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.
 
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
 
Most Alpacas (Cria) are born between 7:00am and 2:00pm. The only problem is Normal gestation is from 314 to 365 days.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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).
 

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