Well, no present
It doesn’t look like I’ll be getting a birthday present from my goats, after all. Probably in the morning, Sara is getting ready, but not tonight. Oh well, maybe next year.
All the kids are doing well. I think Lucky and Mocha will be ones that jump into my arms when I hold them out. That will be fun. George and Bruiser like to come over and get a good body rub. They get scratched all over, and they like that! Rosie is kind of skittish, but I hope she will come around soon. Some days she likes to be handled, other days, not so much.
Dottie’s two boys are doing fine. They are both friendly. Dottie has a lot of milk! Sampson and Buddy can’t keep up with it now, so I’m milking her twice a day. I’m not taking it all, I leave some for the kids. I’ve been letting Dottie drink some of the milk and it’s keeping her udder nice and soft. Speckles two kids, Spot and Brownie are friendly. They are quite lean compared to the other two. But, they are full dairy goats, and Dottie’s are half meat goat. It’s nice that I finally have a replacement doe for the dairy girls. Dottie is 10 years old already, so I don’t know how many more years she will last. I hope quite a few! But, we shall see.
Well, that’s all for now. I had an okay birthday. I combed out the last three remaining yearlings, now they look much better. I also hauled down a couple of buckets of gravel to put in the mud hole in front of the gate. Why I didn’t do that a long time ago, I don’t know. I also finished one skein of the dog hair yarn. It’s looking pretty good! Fairly soft, too. One more good sized skein to go.
More as it happens…..
