LHF kidding 2012 PHOTOS AFTER THE STORM

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They thought it was time for their grain. Nope, just me carrying around my camera.

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Sunny & the 5 egg layers said:
20kidsonhill said:
They thought it was time for their grain. Nope, just me carrying around my camera.

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I love that picture. It is really amazing how each kid(s) stick with their mom and don't get mixed up (or do they?). Really neat picture, thanks for sharing.
From what I can tell, the kids are standing near their own mom's. But sometimes I do see them off playing in little groups and not always right next to mom.
 

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Tori grazing with her doelings
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I love the hair on the ends of her horns. I am sure they are ready to get that winter coat off, with it being near 80 the past couple of days.
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autumnprairie said:
This is the doe that rejected one of her kids. She clearly isn't having a problem being motherly to her first born. She fusses over this little doeling constantly, she is a very good mom. I guess I can't be to upset with her being confused or overwhelmed. Except my husband wont let me keep the bottle baby, and I would have for sure kept her. He doesn't want any bottle raised adults on the farm. They are always under foot and harder to keep fenced in.
 

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I am trying to enjoy the wonderful weather, even though I am terrified of the bugs and parasites we are going to have to deal with this spring and summer.

Th goats don't seem to worried about it.


the kids new favorite place to play.
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Fuzzball wants to know if she can join the fun.
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The bottle baby, Cher.
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A couple bucklings from Dancer.
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oh, I decided I just couldn't load up Nibbles and send her to auction, so I am rehoming her and have found two families interested in giving her home with pasture and other goats to play with. My husband wont be real happy with me. Since to him it is about paying all the feed costs and bills. Which I can appreciate, since we do have $4,000 in feed bills and midicine each year and we can't afford to have the goats, if they don't cover their main expenses. The construction of the barn and fencing we consider a tax right off and property improvement. Since she had to have assistance last year kidding and this year she lost her kids, we have decided to retire her at the age of 9. She has been with us since she was 4 months old. We purchased her and her sister from a farm in PA.
here is the famous picture of her pregnant with her triplet doelings in 2011, this picture was taken of her a month before she kidded, she is the doe in the middle of the doorway. That is not an illusion, she really got that big.
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this is Nibbles last year after having her triplets,
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Here she is with the triplets at around a month old.
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Here she is pregnant this year, but she lost her kids.
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