Once again, much has happened since our last post. My excuse this time will have to be that I am finally feeling human again after suffering from walking pnuemonia for nearly two whole weeks (several of the little boys also suffered, but mine was the most severe. bleh!)
Anyhow, during the last few weeks we have had two new baby boys, mini-nubians, born to Sugar. We have decided to leave them with their mother and they are quite adorable.
We also had linear appraisals done on our goats, and they all did pretty well. I don’t know any exact numbers, but I think Andrina got the highest score and Sam scored highest for the Alpines.
In other news, we have been selling soap at the local farmer’s market and really enjoying it (not to mention selling a fair amount).
On another note, (and this has absolutely nothing to do with goats) a few of us went to see Prince Caspian yesterday and really enjoyed it. I especially liked the themes of faith and trust which were illustrated in it, though I didn’t really like the Caspian/Susan romance. The trees were pretty neat there at the end though.
Finally, we got our new memory verse for the month at church this morning. It is 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.” Therefore, go out and eat things that are healthy for you body. Like Goat Milk!
That ends my ramblings for the day. For some reason pictures aren’t currently loading to the blog. I’m not really sure why that is, but will try to figure it out.
I hope everyone has a lovely Sunday worshiping our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!
Bucklings, Soap, and Baby Chickies
April 13, 2008
Early Friday morning at 2:30 AM, we had two more lovely babies. Andrina, our sole Nubian sr. doe presented us with beautiful twin boys. We’re selling one of the handsome bucklings to some friends, but the other is available if anyone is interested. You have find their bloodlines here, leave a comment with your contact info if your interested (don’t worry, I won’t post it).
Now that we have so much milk, we’re experimenting with making soap again.
In other news. We have chicks hatching out! The eggs in our incubator are finally beginning to hatch and so far we have twelve baby chicks and more hatching. Exciting stuff!
Updates!
April 10, 2008
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 4th. 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 4th 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!
More Babies!
March 6, 2008
We have more babies!
At 4:45 this morning, Rainy, one of our lovely Alpines, presented us with beautiful twin doelings! Unfortunately, our home computer has crashed, so these lovely little girls are not yet on our website and won’t make it there until I have a computer which I can download our website building software to. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures here! Here are some more pics we took today of various goats, kids, etc. around the farmette:
