Norma

I will give you a bit of history here.

In the spring of 2009, I had the opportunity to purchase an "unregistered" buckling out or some excellent stock at a great price. Needless to say, I jumped on it. :) Well, this little guys sire's name was Longman's SA Arousing Cheers. I decided to play off of the Cheers portion of his name thinking of the Cheers sitcom. Sooo....I named my little buckling Norman. Liking the thought that he would be so striking that every time he walked into the barn, all of the girls would yell "NORM!" I know, corny, but it worked for me. :) Norman was the sweetest little guy. He was always calm and easy going and oh so so loving. The picture below was taken of him at 1 year and one week of age.

In October, I think, the lady who we purchased Norman from called and offered us his dam and his sire. We, of course, waisted no time in heading to her place to pick them up.

Well last summer in 2009 we lost Norman to urinary calculi.....More accurately, he got urinary calculi and we thought we had him over it. He got it again (or maybe still had it) and we couldn't get him through it. If you have ever seen an animal with urinary calculi, it is horribly agonizing and painful. I finally asked my husband to put him down. That was very very difficult for both us.

This past fall, we lost Norman's sire, Cheers, to pneumonia. This was really really bad to. Fortunately, we had given my brother one of Norman's full brothers from the 2010 litter. Even better than that, My brother gave him back to me. :) By the way, his name is Woody (from the character on the Cheers sitcom).

Prior to Cheers passing, he had bred all of the does who are kidding now including Norman's dam, Rosie. On Monday, March 1, 2011, Rosie presented us with a single doe kid. This little doeling, who is not so little, is slightly darker in color than Norman was, but she has the same gray undercoating and seems like she will have a great disposition like Norman did as well.

This is one goat that I didn't have to spend any time on thinking of a name that fit her. I looked at her and immediately new that her name was..........NORMA!

Pictures coming soon!