Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goats. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Baby Goats are...


Baby goats are way too much fun to watch.

But, for the record...

If you are 19 weeks pregnant and the baby goat doesn't want to go to bed and zigs when you zag...

the pregnant lady *will* fall.
So, we got back from our trip... which I still need to write about. It was FUN! We've just been BUSY!

This past saturday we went all the way to Pomerene, AZ, to pick up our two mini-milker bottle-baby goats.

Star, the white one, is a mini-Saanen (Saanen mother, Nigerian dwarf buck). The faun colored one is Clover, from the same buck with a La mancha mother-- called a 'mini-mancha'.

They were mother-raised up to this point, so we've been teaching them how to take milk in bottles. It has been a real challenge. Today was the first time that Clover really took enough milk in her morning feeding and it was such a relief. Of course, that means she's even more curious and bouncy 
than usual, so we've all been in stitches watching her bounce around.

Clover is only three weeks old. Star is six weeks. We were told Star might never take the bottle, but she caught on really quickly. She loves to eat!


I love these pictures of the babies, esp. Star on the milking stand.