It has been a very busy week, our kid count is at 31! 18 doe kids and 13 buck kids. Willow will kid tomorrow and then we have a break for about a week or so. We already have a few 'keepers' picked out, and 4H kids are making their picks as well. It seemed like a great idea, kidding as many as possible (14!) in a 5 day span, but turns out sleeplessness and goat wrangling makes you feel like crap! I missed my bed, my shower and having clean fingernails. My vocabulary centered on 'goo' and 'bubbles' and 'I see feet'! You can only make so many jokes about eating placenta and having slime in your hair before it gets really gross and you consider putting a cork in the goats yet to kid. I've never been so tired, despite having incredibly wonderful assistants- so tired, in fact, that the stockpile of wine and chocolate I had set up went almost completely untouched...
So far, everyone is healthy and happy, all of the new mommas are milking well and the first timers are slowly getting over their tremendous fear of the milkstands. They don't look that heavy until you have to lift them onto the stand twice a day. A few of the girls, Masquerade, Luna and Emilene are trying their hand at motherood and are dam raising a few of the extra buck kids for us. We had fairly good success with grafting kids onto their new 'moms', though it looks a little odd to see a Togg raising a solid black Alpine.
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| Wouldn't you just love to crawl into that pile-up? |
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| Macy and Lunetta, nesting as they prepare to kid. |
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| A leopard Alpine? Is that allowed? Our kids are always at the height of fashion... |
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| You would not believe the day I've had. . . |
Sale ads go out today, pre-reservations are being filled. More kids are coming, staggered through April. It's so nice to have fresh goats' milk again- already looking forward to weaning time so I can try out my newfound cheesemaking skills.
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