Waiting for spicy

Our little hobby farm is located on top of a hill in the mountains of Western North Carolina. We raise chickens, Nigerian boerf goats, and garden for vegetables in the summer. In July 2010 we built a chicken coop and acquired four barred rock hens from my brother. In February 2011 we ordered 25 chicks from Ideal Hatchery. After three years of caring for chickens, we finally have the knowledge to keep our flock happy and healthy. Raising chickens is very easy, feed them, make sure they have clean water, worm them in the fall and keep their coop relatively clean. We also process all roosters before they are sexually mature (with the exception of our one rooster Mr. Peanut) and slaughter any bird that looks sick before they can infect the rest of the flock. We are new to caring for goats. In April 2013, a friend asked us to foster her two Saanen wethers. My husband loved caring for these animals, but both of us agreed that after they were gone we would get does for milk production. Just before Christmas this year, we bought two Nigerian boerf goats from a neighbor. These two does do not have papers and are believed to be a cross between Nigerian Dwarf and Boer. They were both breed to a boer buck sometime in October 2013. Sugar, our white doe, gave birth to a billy last week. The billy looks like a boer with floppy ears and short nose, and is quite large . We named him gyro and plan to processes him in four to six months. Now we are waiting for spicy to give birth and hoping for a doeling! For the last seven days, we have been watching her and looking for signs of labor. Does she look dazed? Is she looking at her belly frequently? Is she pawing at the ground or pushing her head against the wall? Are her tail ligament still intact? Do her lady parts look different? We check on her at least five times a day. The reports that we give to each other are quite amusing, "she looked at her belly twice and pushed her head against the wall once, but still nothing coming out". Oh well, waiting for spicy is fun. I think I will go check on her now.

This is a picture of gyro the new billy.