Sugar Kidded!

[helmstead]

Here is our herd Matriarch, Sugar. She is due, if memory serves, July 20th, altho we NEVER see her get bred and she has silent heats...so this is just an estimation based on 'discharge' leading us to believe she was bred.

She is bred to Billy Boy Blue, a repeat breeding. Last year she gave us a gorgeous buckling by BBB, it's a super nice pairing.

 

[Griffin's Ark]

Now that is a goat! with goats! She is pretty, but I like reds and buckskins.

Chris

 

[norcal]

She's gorgeous. Do you trim her, or does her hair grow like that?

Excuse the stupid questions, a newbie here. I only know basic goat breeds etc.

 

[helmstead]

Her hair is au naturale, haha. I love it. It's called 'skirted'. She is our bearded lady! I body clip all the other goats except her and Emma (who is a silkie).

 

[FlightsofFancy]

Oh "Sweet Sugar"! Might she actually have twins? Crossing fingers.

 

[helmstead]

Sweet Sugar

Now THAT is a misnomer if I've ever heard one. The only thing Sugar is sweet on is FOOD...

For comparison:
Here she is about 20 days before kidding with a single last year:

Here she is the day before she kidded with twins time before last:

 

[FlightsofFancy]

Sweet Sugar

Now THAT is a misnomer if I've ever heard one. The only thing Sugar is sweet on is FOOD...

I am glad you got the joke!!! But seriously I would take 10 like her!

 

[helmstead]

Okay, now I know we're getting close...Sugar has become a love bug, which she only does in the last little while she's preggers. Gotta love hormones! She is being sweet on me, and even loved all over a farm visitor yesterday!! We don't really go on kid watch until this weekend...when she'll get to start spending nights stalled under the barn cam.

Personally I can't wait for her to kid only because I'm dying to dehorn the evil witch haha. All of the other does will be singing the praises, I'm sure, once it's done.

 

[helmstead]

Ligs are softening!

 

[lilhill]

May you have all GIRLS!