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Wow, quite the journey from beginning until now. Just read the whole journal. Awesome family life. Hopefully I can keep up with your journal.

....and the happy dance continues:weee. Rio drank 3 10 oz bottles this morning with only a slight pause between 2 and three. Happier goat and happier goat momma(me). A little pellets, fresh hay & water. Sage let me touch her side today while she ate her pellets. Ginger pause to sniff my...

Happy dance:weeeRio down 2 10 oz bottles at feeding time without hesitation. I was supper pleased. Now let's hope for a repeat or three tomorrow. Also check fence and guess what...Yes up to full power! Friggin awesome! If the weather straightens out and warms up I can get that main barn hauled...

No the two does I have are dry and in a total separate area that the kids can't get to.

Thankfully we did not get the high winds they thought we would. We did get more freezing rain and additional layer of ice on everything. Rio would not take anymore milk last night and only one 10oz bottle this am. He isn't demanding about getting his bottle either. Takes a good 20 minutes for...

So the Rio saga continues, this boy has me a little confusedo_O. He ate today but not until about noon and after I brought him inside. He was shivering so I thought he was cold. About 20 minutes in the house and he drank down 18 oz. that was it. I waited about 20 more minutes and tried again...

:welcome hello, glad you joined us. Goats are da bomb! I miss my Nigerians, but having fun getting to know my new crew of 5 Alpine/Nubian crosses.

Colder!!:barnie No Wii :thNo Stew:( and when I went out to feed the babies, Rio who had taken a bottle at 8am and then again at 1 pm, totally refused ito_O. I mean absolutely nothing. No interest when the other two were suckling & totally refusal when I held him to try to get him to eat. Still...

Congrats!

It's a bit cold here in Central VT. 36 degrees with wind chill putting at 30 degrees. Fed & watered all animals. Put more bedding in the babies barn after feeding them. Third little one finally latched onto a bottle. Only took 10oz, but it's a start. Have to bundle up and walk the fence line...

So day 4 with "bottle babies". Two of the three definitely are now bottle babies. Nutmeg, the smallest and Winchester(buckling) They take 25 ounces twice a day. They still don't show an interest for a middle of the day meal. One chart I read said this was ok. They are taking in some hay and...

Love the photos. I take pictures all the time for myself. I always have since I was like 11. Back then I had a cheap camera.

Perdy Cows! I am not a cow farmer, but they look good.

I am feeding them whole cows milk(heated). I was told they were on the bottle but as they refused it the first feeding and I had to get them started at the second feeding, I know they were not. All I know at this point is if I don't get them to take in more then I will end up loosing all three...

I don't have sheep...but all new babies are exciting to me...waiting with you.:caf

I got these three little ones. I stuck with spice names for the doeling. Her name is Nutmeg. The buckling is Winchester and the banded buckling is Rio. They were suppose to already be on the bottle, but they were not. Winchester & Nutmeg figured it out at dinner time the day after they were...

I recently got 3 Nubian/Alpine kids...suppose to be 4 weeks and 3 weeks. Two of them have taken to the bottle great. Third not so great, but getting there. They are all active curious and pottying as they should be. They eat leaves, hay and some pellets. Have seen one drink water. The other two...

Well, I am back. Not a planned endeavor but I had everything still in place so it is a go. My sister in law has severe back issues that prevent her from caring for her two goats. So I brought them home with me. They are Alpine/Nubian. both are 2 years old. I currently have them in the buck...

It is with a heavy heart that I close this page and the goat farming chapter of my life:hit. The doctor's and nurses are insistent that I will not be able to do farm chores for about a month and a half:somad. Starting four days prior to surgery until incision is completely healed. I do not have...

Well it's edging closer to another year done. Merry Christmas to all. Here is to hoping that the New Year is better than the last. Court did not rule in my favor. The judge did admit that the county DCF office did not do their job properly right from the get go, but he would only take in...