New Goat

Ruthie has her baby today!! She just had one like we were expecting and everything seemed to go fine.  baby and momma appear to be doing well.

Ag day!

We were invited back to the local schools Ag day.  We too Gracie and her twins, Oreo and Michael.  It was a fun day!

New goats!

Gracie had her babies today, 4/17/15!  She had twins, a boy and a girl.  We were getting ready to go out of town and saw she was in labor.  The boys and I were able to watch the kids being born.  It was such amazing experience!  Gracie is the best mom!  The kids are doing great!  The boys named them Oreo and Michael!

New Goat!!!!

We have another kid!! Yes another baby goat!!  Tilly, our Nubian goat gave birth to a singlet on 5/24/14!  Colt found it while doing chores and we were surprised!  We new she was pregnant but according to our dates we thought she had a month left!  I guess we were wrong!  We named the little girl goat, Ruthie!  She has beautiful coloring!  And will be tall like her mom!  So much fun!!

GOATS!

We were given goats in December and we knew that one was probably pregnant but we had no idea when she would give birth. We were watching for signs and knew that she was getting close! Well on March 30, 2014, we went to church and came home to a new goat! Gracie gave birth while we were at church! She was pregnant with twins but unfortunately one of the twins died. The other twin was alive and up walking when we arrived home!! It was an amazing sight to see such a new animal! We estimate that she had given birth about 2 hours before. I was able to weigh the new kid, and it weighed in at 2.4 pounds!! So incredibly tiny! We noticed that the kid was not nursing and I could not get any milk out of Gracie so we decided to bring the tiny goat to the house and bottle feed it. We decided to name the girl kid, Cathey! The family that gave us the goat is the Cathey family so we thought it was perfect to name her after them! The bottle and syringe feeding didnt go great so we took her back to her momma and within a few hours she was nursing like a champ! Gracie is a wonderful mom and takes great care of her! Now that it has been a couple of weeks with the new goat, I can say that we all LOVE her! She is such a joy to watch and can make you laugh in seconds! If you have never seen a baby goat run and play, then you need to come over! There is noway a person could stay in a bad mood after watching her for 5 minutes! Camaron loves her so much that we can't get him to stop picking her up!

Goats!

A friend of mine was moving out of state and had 3 goats. She knew we wanted some and offered to give them to us! Well we couldn't turn that down! Of course we don't have room so we quickly built a hut and fence for them! They are adorable! We have 2 pygmy/dwarf mixes and 1 nubian goat. There are 2 females and 1 male. We hope to breed them and have baby goats (kids) and use the milk for soap and cheeses! How exciting!