It has been just a little bit busy here on the farm since my last blog. In the past 2 weeks we have had 44 baby goats born. That puts us at a total of 64 baby goats born so far this year. We still have 19 does (I think) left to kid out. We have had several twins and a couple of single births but we have had 10 sets of triplets so far this year. This past week I have been sitting in the kid barn for at least 2 hours every morning and 2 hours every evening bottle feeding babies. We have sold a few throughout the week and then last night someone came in and wanted to purchase all of the babies that we weren't keeping. Due to pure exhaustion, they got themselves a DEAL!
Here is the break down on births:
- Playdoe - Triplet bucklings
- Mozli - Twin doelings
- Latte - 1 doeling
- Thunder - Twins - 1 doeling and 1 buckling
- Mercury - Triplet doelings
- Halo - Triplets - 1 doeling and 2 bucklings
- Maggie - Triplets - 1 doeling and 2 bucklings (VERY VERY tiny doeling)
- Jynger - Triplets - 1 doeling and 2 bucklings
- Olivia - Triplet bucklings
- Mrs. Calloway - 1 buckling
- Red - Twins - 1 doeling and 1 buckling
- Stormie - Twin doelings
- Gabby - Triplets - 1 doeling and 2 bucklings
- Spirit - Twins - 1 doeling and 1 buckling
- Lyric - Triplets - 1 doeling and 2 bucklings
- Special T - Twin bucklings
- Willow - Twins - 1 doeling and 1 buckling
- Airi - Twin doelings
- Jitterbug - Twin bucklings
Below are a few pictures of the controlled chaos! :)
Group of little doelings that are being retained for future milkers. .....Well, our daughter is taking 2 of these.
Group of bucklings.
Willow with her twins (1 girl & 1 boy).
Special T with her twin boys.
Lyric with her babies (1 boy & 1 girl).
(She lost a baby during the birthing.)
Spirit and her twins (1 boy & 1 girl).
These are Airi's twin girls. Somehow I got Airi outside before I got the picture taken. Airi's girls will be retained for future milkers too.
The little girl in the forefront is Maggie's little girl. Both of the boys were nice good sized babies and "at least" 3 times bigger than this little one. She is a feisty little one though. Her back legs didn't work properly for about four days, but then she finally got control of the them. She has always eaten good and has a great "Can Do" attitude. Several people have wanted to purchase her because she is so small, but since she is so tiny, I just didn't feel like I could really trust them. Our daughter is going to take her and since she is experienced with goats and little ones I think she will do great.
This is Alvin. He just keeps begging to have his picture taken throughout all of the activity going on around him. Maybe this will keep him happy until I can get a proper photo session set up. :)
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