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March 22, 2005

Annie has her kids

First off I have some pictures just for Cyndi of Mullers Lane Farm. Here is your spring grass. Mud mud mud mud and more mud. And some snow. :-)

I was thinking about Annie all day. She was talking to herself and not interested in breakfast when we left in the morning. Her bag was huge! Could today be the day? When I arrived home I saw her standing outside the shed, looking in. That could only mean one thing. Once I heard the tiny bleah I started to run up the hill (quite a feat in all that mud).

One baby was down by the gate under a tree, wet and calling for her mama. Annie was at the shed having just birthed the other little doeling. I brought the first baby up to Annie and she went right to town on cleaning them up. Then they went right to town on mama for a good meal. Annie's teats are almost too big for them to handle. Annie is a saanen, a breed known for giving great amounts of milk. Her daughters have her coloring but they also have their daddy's boer face.
We moved Annie into the barn, but not before we brought Cappy and her babies up from the kid pen, and put Sarah and kid I brought to work and Bugsy and her boy into the kid pen. We had goats all over, running and crying, the dog was barking, Toby the donkey was going off -- good thing we don't have neighbors too close by!

Here are neighbors to where Annie had her kids. Pictured are Mae and Ma (Ma is mother to doe kid I had to bring to work) and Matty and Edith. I meant to take more pictures, especially of Gunney, but my camera batteries died.
Here's the udpate on Gunney: he's sadly not working out for us. Although he is a wonderful individual, he is just not meant to be with goats, at least our goats. Our goats are not used to dogs and they run, so Gunney gives chase. He is not settling down either. Unfortunately Gunney will be leaving us soon. :( He is such a good dog, just not a livestock dog.
Now we all wait for fat Nala to go ahead and have her kids already.

Posted by roosterh at March 22, 2005 10:45 PM

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