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We have kids!!!!
Twin girls!!!!
12 lbs red, heavily spotted, 8 lbs solid red.
She had them on the ground when I went out to check around 5:30-6 pm. The little red one was soaking wet so likely just hit the ground minutes before. The spotted one was in Andys pen. Mama is a gentle giant! She is huge, but is so careful where she steps. We have them currently tucked into the old shed in the same pen. I am afraid to try and block the door, Ravi might break something trying to get in and cause more trouble than it is worth. So open door it is. Temp is fine outside, but mama had them tucked under the shelf anyways so they should stay plenty cozy. We milked out about a cup of colostrum and her udder is already full again. Last year, she fed Pearl when Little was at the fair, and gave me milk for supplementing Ravis triplets, so I am sure Bailey will be able to feed both girls just fine...and we could probably sneak a little for our coffee too without her even noticing. Her udder is...ugly, to put it plainly, but her teats are soft as butter and the babies had no trouble eating so I have no complaints here. Milking her is a smidge difficult since she has 2 teats fused nearly the whole way, milk leaks/squirts out the second orifice when you milk the main one, but whatever. So far it looks like both baby girls are 1x1
Oh and they both have thick, luscious coats! I am so grateful she waited until we were home and had them in the evening. Very considerate of her.
I didn't get a good pic of the red one, she was moving in all 3 pics, but you can see how dark she is behind her sister.
Farm Day is put on by the Farm Bureau. All the third graders in the county come on a field trip to learn about agriculture and where their food comes from. Even for such an agricultural area, surprisingly many of the kids have never seen many of the animals we bring and many are new to the idea that eggs, milk and meat came from somewhere other than the grocery store. I think this is our 5th year doing the dairy goat presentation, 4th doing this combo goat and poultry presentation in the big arena. My poultry kids were originally doing the little 4h free time presentations but I was struggling to help them and run between the poultry kids and DS3s dairy goat one, so I asked if we could move the poultry kids closer to my dairy goat kid and they ended up giving us a big area and set groups to present to. We always try and squeeze in groups even if they weren't supposed to come to ours cause touching the eggs and animals is what I would have loved about a field trip like this so I want to share with any group that wants to join us. I got a kick out of watching several of the kids pet the goose eggs today!
The eggs are hard boiled so they can handle them, but they seem to want to pet the larger eggs instead for some reason. We brought blue, green, brown and pink eggs just to share the rainbow of colors.
Twin girls!!!!
12 lbs red, heavily spotted, 8 lbs solid red.
She had them on the ground when I went out to check around 5:30-6 pm. The little red one was soaking wet so likely just hit the ground minutes before. The spotted one was in Andys pen. Mama is a gentle giant! She is huge, but is so careful where she steps. We have them currently tucked into the old shed in the same pen. I am afraid to try and block the door, Ravi might break something trying to get in and cause more trouble than it is worth. So open door it is. Temp is fine outside, but mama had them tucked under the shelf anyways so they should stay plenty cozy. We milked out about a cup of colostrum and her udder is already full again. Last year, she fed Pearl when Little was at the fair, and gave me milk for supplementing Ravis triplets, so I am sure Bailey will be able to feed both girls just fine...and we could probably sneak a little for our coffee too without her even noticing. Her udder is...ugly, to put it plainly, but her teats are soft as butter and the babies had no trouble eating so I have no complaints here. Milking her is a smidge difficult since she has 2 teats fused nearly the whole way, milk leaks/squirts out the second orifice when you milk the main one, but whatever. So far it looks like both baby girls are 1x1
Oh and they both have thick, luscious coats! I am so grateful she waited until we were home and had them in the evening. Very considerate of her.I didn't get a good pic of the red one, she was moving in all 3 pics, but you can see how dark she is behind her sister.
Farm Day is put on by the Farm Bureau. All the third graders in the county come on a field trip to learn about agriculture and where their food comes from. Even for such an agricultural area, surprisingly many of the kids have never seen many of the animals we bring and many are new to the idea that eggs, milk and meat came from somewhere other than the grocery store. I think this is our 5th year doing the dairy goat presentation, 4th doing this combo goat and poultry presentation in the big arena. My poultry kids were originally doing the little 4h free time presentations but I was struggling to help them and run between the poultry kids and DS3s dairy goat one, so I asked if we could move the poultry kids closer to my dairy goat kid and they ended up giving us a big area and set groups to present to. We always try and squeeze in groups even if they weren't supposed to come to ours cause touching the eggs and animals is what I would have loved about a field trip like this so I want to share with any group that wants to join us. I got a kick out of watching several of the kids pet the goose eggs today!
The eggs are hard boiled so they can handle them, but they seem to want to pet the larger eggs instead for some reason. We brought blue, green, brown and pink eggs just to share the rainbow of colors.
Anyway, they both look great and mom seems to be doing all the things a good momma should be doing. thanks for the pics!
, but selling (what I SHOULD do) would be easier with boys since I already have 2 spotted bucks. I am a full blown addict and it is sooooo easy to just keep them. 
Just like the non sugared variety of nigerian milk. In fact I forgot that nigerian milk tasted extra sweet until I did a taste test with Baileys milk. Now I remember that when I first started drinking my goats milk, I was thrown by the sweetness. 
