This morning I cleared out the playhouse from the last round of kidding, and then spread fresh straw down and moved Jasmine into the play yard and house that double as the kidding shed and pen.
If she was bred when her previous owners think she was then her due date is the 31st of July, and I want her to have some time to get used to the new quarters. And the 31st due date is based on a 150 day gestation cycle and Nigerian Dwraf's actually have a "normal" kidding range of 145-150 days, so she could kid sooner than two weeks.
Of course if she wasn't bred when they thought she was, her due date changes to sometime between the end of August and the end of September. Right now she doesn't look all that pregnant to me, but she does have a nice long body with plenty of room to hide a kid or two. And she is starting to show fullness in her udder so I am really hoping that she is set to kid at the end of the month.
I put Ramie in with Jasmine to give her some company. Ramie is used to that pen since she was born and raised in there until just recently. Hopefully she will be enough company to keep Jasmine from getting lonely. If not, then I will move Mame' over and put Ramie back in with the rest of the herd.
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