On Friday evening (January 11th) we left home on a fast and furious trek to pick up a piece of equipment for the dairy. Some people take vacations, some take staycations.........WE take goatcations.............which is us making a wild dash somewhere in a short amount of time to pick up what is needed. It's not really that fun and it's definitely not restful, BUT it is effective! :) This time we traveled 1,862 miles across 5 states in just under 47 hours. Mission accomplished! :)
Babies are always fun and it is so exciting to see what each doe has (boys, girls, singles, twins, what color they are and the list can go on and on). So......after our extremely short weekend across five states......
Our first kidding season of the year began on Tuesday, January 15th!
Bella presented us with a single doeling. This little girl was a little preemie and I wasn't overly concerned since we have successfully raised several preemie babies in the past. By Wednesday evening I had decided that she must be a little more preemie than what I had originally thought and I really wasn't sure at that point if she was going to make it or not. Finally on Thursday afternoon, the baby, now known as Little Miss, made a turn for the better and steadily began to make progress. By Friday evening, she learned to get out of her basket, which had been her home beside the wood stove since her birth. On Saturday, we tried to put her back with her mother, but it had been to long and didn't work. As luck would have it, another doe had a single baby so we took Little Miss and rubbed the afterbirth from that doe all over her and the new mother has accepted her as her own. :)
Little Miss
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