How many months does a pregnant goat walk, calendar and fertility table
How long does a pregnant goat walk before giving birth to a kid? Typically, the severity lasts 150 days. A healthy female gives birth five (full) months after insemination. Childbirth can occur a week earlier or later than the due date. Usually, a goat gives birth to the same number of kids at a time as the mother or the female had cubs the previous time.
What determines the duration of pregnancy
Pregnant goats are called suyagny goats. Pregnancy, or pregnancy, begins from the moment of fertilization and ends with the birth of a kid. Its duration is five (full) months, that is, 150 days. You need to know when the goat became pregnant in order to transfer it to dead wood in time and start (stop milking). Suagosity at home is determined by appearance (the belly grows, the genitals swell, the goat stretches like a cat, it has no signs of hunting).
Under normal, that is, during physiological pregnancy, the female bears a fetus without complications, and after 5 months she gives birth to 1-2, less often 3-4 kids. In case of violation of vital processes in the animal's body, pathological contractions develop, which can be interrupted ahead of time and end in spontaneous abortion. Causes of pathology: poor quality feed, lack of vitamins and minerals, poor living conditions.
Sometimes goats can have a false pregnancy. This happens if, after the sexual cycle, insemination did not occur, or it happened, but it turned out to be infertile. With a false pregnancy, the female's belly increases, the udder swells. True, there is no fetus in the uterus. The abdomen is enlarged due to the accumulated mucus and fluid.
The favorable course of pregnancy is influenced by the feed and conditions of the animals. Prolonged stall keeping and lack of walks lengthens the duration of pregnancy. If the goat carries males and not females, then lambing will come a little later. In primiparous goats, the fruiting period is longer. Dairy females give birth on days 140-145.
The time of lambing can be shifted a week later or a week earlier than the due date. Childbirth is a process when a mature, completed fetus leaves the mother's body. It takes 5 months for the complete formation of all organs and systems of the kid. Early maturing goats usually give birth earlier than late maturing goats.
Pregnancy Calendar
Suagosity normally lasts 150 days.The onset of pregnancy is difficult to determine. Usually it is calculated from the date of coverage. In the third month of pregnancy in goats, the fetus is already felt on the right side of the abdomen. You can even hear the heartbeat of a kid with a phonendoscope.
Normal, that is, normal physiological pregnancy in a goat lasts 145-155 days. Ideally 150 days. You can determine the moment of delivery using the table. The only thing you need to know in this case is the date of insemination. As a rule, the female is covered in the fall, less often in the winter.
Lambing table:
| Insemination date | Lambing date |
| September 1 | 28 January |
| 1 october | February 27 |
| Nov. 1 | March 31 |
| the 1st of December | April 29 |
| 1st of January | May 30 |
The goat is covered in late shade, so that the offspring born in the summer can be grazed in the meadow. After all, grass is the cheapest and most valuable feed. Throughout pregnancy, it is necessary to monitor the condition of the animal, not to expose it to stress, to give high-quality and complete food.
How many kids are born to a goat
Fertility of goats depends on genetics, that is, hereditary characteristics. There are females who constantly give birth to one kid. Some animals, on the other hand, are very fertile. African goats usually give birth to at least three cubs.
The first time a goat brings one or two kids. Rarely, a female gives birth to 4-6 cubs. In 67 cases out of 100, twins are born in pregnant goats at the time of lambing. The kids are born one after another, with a break of 10-30 minutes.
The living conditions and quality of feed do not affect the number of calves. Only the vitality of the kids depends on nutrition. If a goat eats one hay and straw throughout the pregnancy, weak cubs are born. During the period of pregnancy, especially in winter, the female must be given some vegetables, silage, grain, spruce or pine branches, pharmacy vitamins and minerals, salt, chalk, bone meal.
How long does childbirth last
Lambing in a goat begins 150 days after insemination. By this time, the fetus has completely completed its development in the uterus of a cat or a succumbing female. At the time of childbirth, the fetal waters and membrane come out.
It is possible to determine that the female will soon give birth to a kid by external signs. The goat's genitals swell, mucus is secreted from them, the udder increases.
Labor begins with contraction of the muscles of the uterus. Contractions last about 3 hours. The female usually lies on the floor before giving birth. The membranes rupture, the fetus is excreted through the cervix, and the umbilical cord breaks. In a goat that has never given birth, childbirth lasts 60-90 minutes. The kid usually comes forward with its legs and muzzle. If the pregnancy is not the first, then childbirth ends faster, after 40-50 minutes. Sometimes the female gives birth to two kids for half an hour.
After childbirth, short-term contractions with long pauses occur, contributing to the discharge of the placenta. In nature, offspring of goats appears independently, without human help. After giving birth, the female licks the kid, gnaws the umbilical cord. The afterbirth from the uterus also comes out on its own.
A person can help remove mucus from the kid's nose, cut off the umbilical cord at a distance of 4-6 cm from the umbilical ring. True, the goat must definitely lick its cub. Biological substances of amniotic fluid stimulate the release of the placenta.
Usually the place comes out after 1-3 hours, you cannot pull it out by hand. If the placenta is delayed, the female is injected with "Oxytocin". The place that has left the uterus must be removed immediately so that the goat does not eat it, otherwise an eating disorder is possible.
After giving birth, the female is given warm water with sugar and the colostrum is decanted. Newborn kids should eat no later than 40 minutes after birth. The cubs remain under the female for the first 2-3 months of life. Then they are gradually transferred to vegetable feed.
