Goat Kidding 2010- Part 1

Kidding season 2010 has come, whether we like it or not!  

Both Maggie and Kyra had their babies on Wednesday, April 14th- Maggie at around 5 in the morning and Kyra at about 4 in the afternoon.

Maggie had one boy, then had great difficulty with the next kid in line.  She worked for around three hours, and by the time we got help, the baby was dead.  While we were standing around talking about it afterwards, one more kid came.  Triplets!

This is Lancelot (The boy)

And this is Princess (the preemie girl.)  Cute!

Later, Kyra had twin girls right as I got home from school.  Finally a few does!

This is Pepper (Girl #1)

And this is Parsley (Girl #2).  Adorable!

Goat Kidding 2009- Part 3

This is the kidding we were all in anticipation for- not because we were excited- because we were dreading it.  Last year the mom, Shadow-Lou, had two tiny babies and then had no clue what to do with them.  Therefore, they died.  Find the rest of the story here.

But this year the improvement was supreme.  On April 20 she easily had two beautiful babies- a boy and a girl, and she is being a good momma now.  The only problem was that when she was kidding, she refused to push.  It wasn't like she couldn't, she just wouldn't.  So we had to help out.  My dad says that if she ever does that again we're getting rid of her.  :)

But all's well that ends well.

Here is Shadow with her two babies, Chaldie and Un-named.  I would absolutely love it if you put a name suggestion for Mr. Buck here in the comments section.  We name Chaldie "Chalcedony" after the tradition of her father, "Carbide."  So I think we're going with the rock/mineral trend with these two kids.  The buck is an absolute doll.  He is the cutest, friendliest thing you could ever meet.

Shadow-Lou with Chaldie (Black Female).  The un-named back is the brown kid in the picture above this one.

More later, but feel free to vote on the 'cutest kid' right now and change your vote once you've seen all of the prospects.

Stay tuned for the last, and most exciting, part 4.

Goat Kidding 2009- Part 2

The second kidding of the year went beautifully.  The momma, Kyra, usually has a hard time, but luckily we were there and helped out a little and everything went well.  She had two beautiful little baby does on Saturday, April 18th.

It's hilarious.  She's kind-of a scrub, but she always raises these kids that almost shine they're so amazing.  :)   Aren't they darling?

This is Nellie 

And this is Rosie.

What a cutie pie!

So now we have two batches of kids in the barn.  

Stay tuned for round three. . . . 

Goat Kidding 2009- Part 1

FINALLY!

Baby goats around this place have finally decided to honor us with their presence.  Since this first batch was six days late, we were all in great anticipation.

Maggie, our leader of the pack, had kids on Thursday, April 16th, at about 8:10 p.m.  First came a beautiful little girl which we decided to call Jenny, because when she was born she looked exactly like a donkey.  Gray face, white muzzle, white around the eyes.  She was SOOO cute.  

Second came a little boy which we called Jack, just because a girl donkey is called a Jenny and a boy one is a Jack- so there we were.  Jack has the cutest pick nose- which is rare in goats.  They are hilarious.  They run around, butting heads and jumping up in the air, doing little twirly things.  And both of them are very friendly.  

(Maggie, Jenny, and Jack left to right)

Well- so far so good.

Stay tuned for round two.

A New Face

Last week, we had some friends come over and drop off a goat for stud service.  It is SOOO different having a flop-eared one in the pen!

Copyrighted Pictures

Hehehehehehe!  Many thanks to Cocoa for helping me out with copyrighting pictures.  If you want to figure out how to do it, too, go here.  

This is one of my favorite pictures.  Isn't it great?  I think that it's darling.  This should convince anyone that goats are great.  And now it has my copyright on it!  

Ahhh. . . The satisfaction. . .