giraffe cam..she is getting ready to give birth

[syrenn]

she has access to the outside...millions have logged on for the last what...8 days...

8 damn days....are you kidding me???!!!???

 

[koshergrl]

Good..because the first thing I thought was 'she needs to be able to walk around or this could take months'.

Horses can hold onto babies for up to a month after their due dates. I had a mare who was due (and you know when they're due, as the breeding is controlled) early one spring. It was a really cold spring.

We lived on a road where there were about 13 broodmares up the road a little way, also all pregnant...

Nobody had any babies that year on their due dates....my mare was a whole month over her due date, I think she was 5 weeks passed. And the day that she delivered, so did all the broodmares up the road.

They couldn't see or hear each other, they were about 5 miles apart.

 

[syrenn]

I should neg you for this bones!!! i cant stop watching!!!!

 

[syrenn]

the tail is up!

 

[strollingbones]

she is off camera now...damn it......she just keeps eating

 

[strollingbones]

i think giraffes are a little better with due dates....

 

[strollingbones]

ahhhh she leaves the paddock again

 

[strollingbones]

just think how the zoo staff feels....

 

[strollingbones]

she is doing something real weird.....squatting?

 

[syrenn]

she is doing something real weird.....squatting?

ggrr....she was doing that ALL night too!

 

[strollingbones]

o damn

 

[strollingbones]

hubby is making odd comments about food and all....break fast he is calling it????

 

[syrenn]

hubby is making odd comments about food and all....break fast he is calling it????

lol...i am afraid to get up an pee! To hell with breakfast!!!

 

[strollingbones]

lol i can turn the monitor.....and yes i have had to go to the bathroom too lol

 

[Valerie]

^ Hurry, you still have time!

 

[syrenn]

^ Hurry, you still have time!

this thing is going to come out like an explosion!

 

[syrenn]

good dam it...she keeps moving out of frame!

 

[strollingbones]

they need to clean the stall and put fresh hay down

 

[syrenn]

they need to clean the stall and put fresh hay down

im not sure they will do that so close to delivery...it may spook her.

 

[koshergrl]

They don't have straw on the floor that i can see. It's just some hay that she's pulled out of her feeder.