Jayne's Baby

Saturday, January 19th

Jayne delivered a nice big single buckling.

Jayne is the doe that adopted Little Miss as her own so now she has a boy AND a girl!  :)

Emma's Babies

January 17th

Emma delivered 2 very pretty little bucklings.  

BABIES!!!!

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

New Hay Feeder

This is the new hay feeder that my wonderful husband built for the girls.  This one is a little different than the last one since there is not a gate to open and put the hay in.  You simply put the hay where you want it and then, using the tractor, place the feeder over the top of the hay.  Also included is a roof to help keep the rain off some.

Zanna

Zanna is a very nice looking girl who is a LaMancha cross.  Zanna was born in December of 2011 at Maple Springs Farm.  Zanna has proven to be a worth while investment for the entertainment that she provides us, if for no other reason.

Zanna LOVES her animal crackers and will dig in your pockets, non stop, until she finds what she is looking for.  :)

In our baby barn, we have a walk way down the middle with pens on each side (used for babies or birthing, which ever is needed at the time).  Our grand daughters (now 3 & 5) absolutely HATED walking down the isle when Zanna was in there because she would reach through the fence and pull their hair.  They still have fits whenever they hear her name and proceed to tell me how mean she is and that she pulls their hair.  Honestly, I can't say that I blame them because she has reached through and pulled my hair several times and it DOES hurt, BUT she is certainly not mean and she has a very special place in my heart.  :)

I'm not really sure how I was able to get a picture of her because she is always right in my pocket which makes it difficult to get pictures when you are by yourself.

Zanna should have babies within the next 45 days.  :)

Taboo & Her Girls

Meet Taboo!

Taboo was enjoying this nice sunny day.  As you can see she is already nearly as big as a house and her babies aren't due for about 2 more months.

Taboo came to join our farm in February 2011 immediately following that "arctic" chill we had and shortly before the terrible heat wave and drought that we experienced that summer.

I always give a special thanks to my friend Caren for allowing Taboo and a few other special girls to come to Oklahoma to live on our farm.  :)

 Below are Taboo's daughters from spring of 2012.  Both are very well put together little girls and Tryxie is slightly bigger than her sister, Tia.  Tryx is more of a pocket pet than her sister as well, but I have high hopes that both of these girls will milk just as well as their mom.  Hopefully the breeding plans that we have will be agreeable with both of these young ladies and we can start milking them late this summer.

Tia & Trycie are almost 10 months old.

 

Tia

Tryxie

Thing 1 & Thing 2

Please excuse the "not so good" pictures.  Our granddaughters broke Nana's camera so I had to resort to using my phone to take pictures.

Here are a couple of BEAUTIFUL girls!  

These girls originally had very pretty names, but our daughter, who is a teacher, was working on a Dr. Seuss unit and started calling these girls Thing 1 and Thing 2.  The names stuck.  : /

Thing 1 is a little shorter in height and her light colored markings are lighter than her sisters.

Thing 2 has a small light colored "dot" on each side of her chin.

For quick identification they wear different colored collars so that we can tell who is who even across the field..

Their dam is Nashama's Airi and their sire is CRF Woody.  They are half LaMancha and half Nubian.

Pictured below at 8 months old.

 

Thing 1

 

Thing 2