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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsApril the giraffe STILL has not had her baby! 18 days after live stream started and counting.
Animal Adventure Park began live streaming from April's stall on February 23, about the time they expected April to have her baby.
On March 1 when she had not given birth, the park posted April the Giraffe: The World On Edge, a video discussing April's health, her living conditions, and when she might actually be due. The video included the information that perhaps April had gotten pregnant later than thought - and might be due 17 days later.
Well, now it is 18 days after the first live stream of April began and April still does not have her baby. Even Oliver, her companion and the father of her baby, seems to be impatient.
The official live stream of April is from Animal Adventure Park - any others are unauthorized rip offs.
Orrex
(63,228 posts)It has seven vertebrae, just like you and me.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Orrex
(63,228 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,888 posts)I don't know anybody whose cervix has vertebrae.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)It makes me want another one - and I can't do that right now for a number of reasons. In fact when it does come time for a new kitty I might adopt some older ones. But that will be a while down the road.
On the other hand, giraffes are cool but I have no aspiration of ever owning one. And watching April brings back memories of my days and nights watching and waiting for my mares to foal.
I've had dozens of foals born here and spent months checking them and watching for the foals to come. I've even been there to supervise the births, though I only ever had to help with one birth.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,888 posts)I'll wait until the little one is born and everything is all cleaned up. Then I'll get all squeee and enjoy the babies. But child/kitten/giraffe/anything else-birth is just too slippery and fluidy for me to want to watch.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)I always imprinted my foals as soon as they took their first breath. It is so magical, even if it can be messy.
Even the problem birth, the one I had to help deliver, was amazing. After all we went through with that baby - she had leg problems which we had to treat for months after she was born - we couldn't sell her. She's now 18 and still going strong, though she is spoiled rotten. NOT a good thing for a mare that is 15.2 hands and weighs 1500 pounds.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)the pregnancy to hang onto her much younger "Baby Daddy" Oliver...
csziggy
(34,139 posts)I can tell with the way the baby keeps moving around.
In fact, looking at her right now, I suspect it's backbone is on the left side of her belly - which means it is not lined up in the birth canal yet.
With horses, a day or so before they foal the mares look smaller in the belly as the foal moves into the birth canal.
April's baby is kicking today. Poor girl - I bet she is ready for it to hit the ground and relieve her of it's weight!