More Kids!
This week has been a busy one, with kids popping out almost every day. There are now 18 kids out there. One more boy than girl, so this is the year for girls, finally.
Lucy had hers, a little girl I named Carmel. Lucy didn’t want to be a mom at first. I had to tie her up and then keep sticking the kid in front of her, telling her that was her baby, and she had to take care of it. Her maternal instincts finally kicked in after about a half an hour, and now she’s a good mom.
Oreo had twin boys. They are cute. Toby and Wilbur. Sara had twin girls, Thelma and Louise. They are petite little things. Camilla had a big single boy, Walter. I had to pull pretty hard to get him out! Celeste had twin girls, Fancy and Licorice. They are both jet black, with Fancy having a big white blaze on her face and two white socks on her front legs. Licorice has a white spot on her head.
There are lots of shades of brown, and red-brown out there. Very pretty colors this year. I’m still waiting for Cleo to give birth. She is a first-timer. Doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to have them. Emily is due on Friday. Then it’s over for this year.
We had a spot of winter on Tuesday. We got 10 inches of snow!! Now it’s all gone and it has warmed up. We went from Winter to summer in the space of two days. Yesterday was 70 and sunny, today was fairly warm, too. There are just a couple of patches of snow left. Five of the kids were born during the snow.
All the kids are very healthy and strong this year. I think this is my best kidding season yet! They are looking quite good.
Today John and I put up another fence around the forest garden. It’s a 6 foot high wire fence that the deer should not be able to get over. We took down the old fence, put up the new one, and put the old wire back up in front of the welded wire so the goats don’t break the welds when they are rubbing along the fence. It took all day to do!
I planted a bunch of potatoes yesterday. We are trying the round potato bins that we used a few years ago. We didn’t do it right back then, so the harvest wasn’t very good. I’m trying something a little different this time, so we shall see how it goes. Hopefully we will have a good harvest this fall!
I”m going to do a final “clean-up” combing on some of the goats tomorrow. I combed them initially, but now I need to go back and finish it. They don’t completely shed out the first time, so I have to go back and do it again.
All that snow melting has turned the main pen into a swamp. I really need to get that cleaned out! Luckily the back half of the pen is nice and dry, so they can all be back there, and not have to be in the wet part.
I sure am enjoying my babies! They are more entertaining than a TV anytime! :-)
There will be pictures posted on the website one of these days. More as it happens….
