Updates!

Wow! It’s been a really long time since I last updated this blog. Sorry about that! Unfortunately, our family has been suffering from the crud, and I have been working on some big projects for school. Anyhow, as to updates:

On March 24 Fiona kidded to twins, a doe (Fauna Fey, the brown one in the above pic) and a buck (Sniper, the white and black one in the pic). They weighed nine and eleven pounds at birth! They are both beautiful and we are hoping to make room for both of them in our herd.

Reflection kidded on April 4^th. She had triplets, two does and a buck, which is two more than we expected! Her delivery was the hardest we have had yet. In the above pic, the buck, Son Dancer, is on the far left and the other two are the does, Glimmer and Sparkle.

 

April 4^th Mikaela went out to milk, and when she went to get Reflection she discovered her lying in her house. She was in labor so Mikaela moved her to the “birthing pen”. After several hours it was obvious something wasn’t right. Mommy “went in” and discovered a kid was positioned head and legs back. Flec wasn’t going to be able to deliver a kid shoulder first so we had to reposition it. Mommy managed to find and pull the legs forward, but couldn’t get the kids head. Mommy and Daddy gently pulled the kid while Mikaela sat with Flec trying to keep her calm.  Flec managed to deliver the kid, a very thin buckling, but it wasn’t breathing. Mommy gave it mouth to mouth and it began to gasp! He was soon followed by two sisters, both healthy.  All are doing well now. That was plenty of excitement for this year!

 

Finally, we have sold three of this year’s kids so far: Jupiter and Capella (North Star’s kids) went to a wonderful home in Texas and Penelope (Piper’s spotted doe kid) went to one in Kansas.

 

Here’s a few more pics we’ve taken recently. Enjoy! And if you read this post, leave a comment so we know you’re here!