Midgardr Acres

02/14/2026

My boooo!!!!
Omg! I have been uptight and out of sight over this. And we caught a heart flicker and a rib cage evidence! Its finally safe to say that at 60 days post breeding Collette is officially expecting and due on May 16th of 2026!!! The splash AI worked!

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02/09/2026

Febraury 14th im going to ultrasound Collette

She will be 60 days post breeding then and we should be able to finally see some bones. I absolutely hate that ive been still questioning if she is or isnt despite 1-16 tests showing up positive at the 30 minute mark and continuing to get darker at 10 minute mark and so on, so far Collette has not come back into heat so im praying we will definitely see bones. But i am prepared for anything so stay tuned.

02/05/2026

Finally got Collette transferred into my name! And I got the AI memo between Collette and Soon Hurricane filed XD next to get Ace and Topaz registered and transferred to my name via ABGA

02/02/2026

Hey everyone. I have been feeling overwhelmed with life lately. I have not done Collette's day 45 ultrasound due to this. Life has been super crazy as I lost the hen id been fighting with to get better and on top of that my job is being threatened by politics (states fault no fault of my employer) so I am riding out this wave and just trying to get through this. Praying the next 2 weeks wont result in me having to find a new job. My job fuels the small farm I have so losing it would be a bad thing.

However I will update as soon as I can im going to see how next week fairs praying my brain will just chill out so I can get things done. In the meantime please enjoy this cute picture of my cat Chaild cuddling with her bird toy lol.

01/26/2026

I have been fighting for 2 months with this girl. Bout the end of November I believe it was my beautiful blue silver udd begin exhibiting weakness. I couldnt figure out what was wrong so I isolated her. Gave her deep bedded shavings, her own water jug with vitamins, poultry cell, electrolyte etc. She began to perk up she was doing great I told her one more month and we will see where you are at. Mind you I had to hold her. She didnt have mites or lice at that point.

Fast forward to today.

I got up at 8:50pm made breakfast went out and let the chickens out (bout 930-10am) and when I opened up the quarantine section all of a sudden I see Ms.Grey (as I like to call her) on her side with her feet sticking out not moving.

I picked her up, notice shes still not moving her feet. Immediately get her to a heat pad because they are frozen solid at this point im upset. Im trying to keep my cool. I've never had this happen. We've had 10 degree weather and never frozen feet it only got to 19 last night from what I know.
Im holding Ms. Grey in a towel, and under the towel is a heating pad on low. We sat for 2 hours as her feet came back to life.

During which I watched lice after lice come out of her feathers and go straight into her feathers again, I could feel them crawling on me I became further upset because why!? I have work today and now I have to do this. Of course my brain responded with "hey you wanted to be a farmer this is farming." 🙄 of course. So i buckled down and though what do I have that can help her for now. Oh! Pertmethrin dust! Ill get that on her. Went to find it, couldnt find it then I remembered that lice are often killed by Diametacious Earth so I remembered I had a big bag of that, once she was warm I took her outside and let her sit in the sun while I rubbed, gently as to not make big clouds or dust around her, DE all over her, front, back, under wings, under belly, side to side bam! Dusted dethawed chicken.

She was happy and began to perk up again. I was happy I told her I will figure out what to do for warmth because this enclosed coop isnt acting right. shes still bone thin by the way but I suspect the mites may have a play in that. So this evening I went to get a heat lamp that I thought was good, nope its broke, I went inside and prepared to give up. Then my brain said.... "are farmers allowed to give up because I could have sworn you had more options then that." I remembered the heat lamps in the barn, I rushed out to get them thank goodness 2 lamps with working bulbs in them. I put one in the feed room up high but not too high so it would keep the coop warm. We have a fenced door so it will probably not get to hot in there but will remain warm enough to keep her from getting frozen.

Im praying this will work 🙏

Psa: yes im well aware that "hEaT lAmPs ArE tHe NuMbEr OnE cAuSe Of CoOp FiReS!" 😒 if you have other ideas on how to keep the damn birds alive and normal temp during super cold please do tell me! Because not one person said hey! That type of coop isnt winter hardy! Imagine having plastic covered winterized coops each winter and thinking youre not doing enough for your birds just to turn around and build an awesome coop that still isnt enough during winters -_-

01/23/2026

Took Collette to the vet today for a health inspection to be able to get a bottle of BoSe, shes healthy other then an ear infection that id been wondering about she apparently gets them every year because of the dust in our area. But we have her on some pregnancy safe antibiotics just in case she is. I mean... 2 pregnancy tests, 2 ultrasounds showing something im thinking for sure yes but... I just dont want to get my hopes up until I see bone formation lol

I had asked fellow lamancha owners if ear infections were a thing a few years ago but was told leaky ears are normal, it isnt always an infection if her temp is normal and it doesnt smell funky dont worry about it. It didnt smell funky and her temp was never abnormal o.O. My vet saw infection and normal temp and gave Collette a steroid antibiotic that she will be taking for 2 weeks and then we send some slides in to confirm its all gone :) so yeah. Crazy stuff i guess her being pregnant wouldnt be the craziest thing 🤣

01/18/2026

I didnt ultrasound yesterday because i was so in my head i just needed a break. So I decided to do the ultrasound today and boy everything looks different i had a really hard time locating what the heck i was looking for without skeletal structer to say yup you found it! Lol Those three dots tell me these tests are truthful. Im still holding my breath though. Nothings for certain until I see skeletal structure. Im semi sure i saw heart beat flickering for a moment but the wand kept slipping and moving. The rate of interruptions ive had with today's ultrasound is sus at best let me tell ya. I went to start the ultrasound and my wand quit working while I was trying to scan lol then I got inside and was editing the video and looking it over to get the screen shot and stuff fell off the dryer redirecting me to a game of 52 pickup. Which is odd because the item that fell was all the way in the back 🤔 lol

The 3 dots on the day 33 ultrasound i believe are the same 3 dots from the day 25 ultrasound, now that the uterus is more filled with fluid the embryos have moved and spaced out. There may be 3 embyros or 2 however January 30th will bring that answer and the final answer of is she truly pregnant. I think she is. Everything is just sort of pointing to yes. Lol im just scared to get my hopes up because I want this so bad.

01/16/2026

Uhm... does anyone else see that secondary line? O.o

First test (2nd image top) was done at 2:30pm I marked it invalid because it didnt go through the c and t windows until I added more chaser and blood.

The second test (first image and second image bottom) was done at 3pm and results at 3:40 produced a very faint line and turned into this (second image bottom) by 3:50 pm
.... am I seeing what i think im seeing?

01/16/2026

Big thanks to my vet for showing up and showing me how to draw blood as well as letting me know if I have 2 goats next time I can draw one and she can draw one. You are so appreciated. By 3pm we should have a definite yes or no on Collettes pregnancy.

01/15/2026

Soon we will know if Collette is pregnant or not. I know since she went into heat on the 12th she could not be pregnant however im leary of secondary heats when they are already pregnant lol but it was an odd heat she had no warning just bam! Flagging but not standing at fence like she was craving the buck so I just want to make sure shes not pregnant at all before putting a cidr in again and starting over. I have a full plan already played out. :)

01/13/2026

I tried to get this done back in 2022 so I could transfer Collette into my name however they kept telling me it wasn't working I had to change things id complete 1 thing and they'd send me another error. I was confused lol and I didnt know what an asterisk was or whatever lol til now! I fixed the issue where the * was in front and behind my Herd Name i dont remember putting that there lol But okay I finally got it fixed and they sent me a invoice for membership pay so ill pay that this Thursday. We are now official ADGA members!

01/12/2026

This was the most upsetting thing I dealt with this morning. Im not gonna say im shocked because I had hoped maybe when I did splash her that I wasn't too early. But I did learn why people say they like to catch their does at the end of heat to AI them in any way shape or form.

Tuesday december 16th was too early even though she was receptive. Her system said "she might be a h***y right now but I aint open for business and what I say goes!" 🤣

I had posted earlier a post thats since been deleted because it was filled with, i won't say false hope but definitely, uncertain hope. About an early ultrasound I decided to do that did show a sac of some sort.

We learned 4 things: 1: day 25 post breeding is too early to promise anything, 2: definitely keep straws on hand for at least 21 to 25 days later or plan to have said straws delivered to you for that time frame in case doe does return to heat. 3: always trust flagging a doe is a doe no matter how flaggless and receptive 🤣 and 4: day 45 is the best time to ultrasound because you can see movement, heartbeat and small embyros that tell you how many are in the oven.

I will not say this is indefinitely a shes open post as I will be getting a bio-pryn test to figure out if she is pregnant or not because the ultrasound did show something but im not sure what and this could be a false heat or a heat thats happening because he body hasnt recognized shes pregnant just yet. On the other hand if that bio-pryn comes back negative in pregnancy I will be breeding her again. Possibly in late January. Early February as she returns to heat in the beginning of February.

That will be my last attempt until at least April as im trying to avoid the hot seasons