15/09/2026
🐐 GUESS THE KIDDING DATES! 🐐
Our 2026 kidding season is almost here, and we’re inviting you to test your goat-predicting powers!
Nine of our named does are due between early October and late November. Can you predict when each one will kid?
🏆 THE PRIZE
The winner will receive a $50 Little Farm Goat Dairy cheese voucher, redeemable at Amberley Farmers Market or Lyttelton Farmers Market, or directly from the dairy by prior arrangement.
🐐 THE DOES AND THEIR CALCULATED DUE DATES
Tourmaline — 3 October
Bella — 22 October
Bailey — approximately 24 October*
Bette — approximately 24 October*
Carmel — approximately 24 October*
Beryl — 25 October
Zella — 31 October
Ada — 3 November
Dagmar — 28 November
These dates are calculated using an average goat gestation of 150 days—but, as every goat keeper knows, goats do not read calendars!
*We have exact recorded breeding dates for the other six does, but only an approximate exposure date for Bailey, Bette and Carmel. Their calculated due dates are therefore less certain—which may make them particularly interesting to predict!
HOW TO ENTER
Copy the entry template from our first comment, add your predicted kidding date beside each doe, and post your completed entry as a new comment beneath this original post.
Then predict the total number of kids these nine does will produce as the tie-breaker.
Entries close at 8 pm on Friday 25 September 2026.
SCORING
• Exact kidding date — 3 points
• One day either side — 2 points
• Two days either side — 1 point
• More than two days away — 0 points
The entrant with the highest total score wins.
If two or more people have the same score, the closest prediction for the total number of kids will decide the winner. If there is still a tie, the entry submitted first will win.
THE IMPORTANT BITS
• One entry per person.
• Entry is free and no purchase is necessary.
• Predictions may be edited until entries close.
• Entries or edits made after the closing time will not be accepted.
• Entries must be placed beneath this original post.
• If a doe does not kid for any reason, she will be removed from the scoring.
• The winner will be announced after the final doe has kidded.
• The prize cannot be exchanged for cash.
We’ll share the new arrivals as kidding season unfolds, so everyone can follow the results!
This competition is run by Little Farm Goat Dairy and is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook.
