At the beginning of March our herd of four goats (2 does, 1 buck, & 1 wether) increased by 5.
Hickory our Nigerian Dwarf goat gave birth to triplets boys out in our field. Unfortunately about 2 weeks later one of them died, which was really sad because that was the one that Liesel picked to be her's.
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| Hickory had just given birth her 2nd kid |
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| Here's two of the 3 boys only a couple days old |
About a week later, Patches, our 1/2 Boar & 1/2 Nubian, gave birth to twins. This is the 2nd time Patches has given birth since we got her 4 years ago. She had twins the last time but one of them didn't make it. This time both of them made it!
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| Patches brand-new kids. A boy and a girl |
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| The white one is the boy and the brown is the girl |
So I really have enjoyed having little goats (especially the Nigerian Dwarf) and so we decided we'd sell all of our 3 baby boys and get a few more does. Well we found a really good deal and end up with 3 more does (plus one for our cousins.)
Our newest does...
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| Our 1 year old Nigerian Dwarf, Miss Betsy. She got her head stuck in a bucket. |
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| The 3 new doeling kids-Foxglove, Jasmine, & our cousins little goat who we named Jemima. |
We now have 6 does (Patches' girl we're going to sell but we still have her at the moment), 1 buck, & 1 wether. Bring us to a total of 8 goats. So what's the plan with these goats? :) Well for one thing these goats are wonderful brush and weed eaters and have done a great job keeping the blackberry bushes down etc. We also plan on breeding the does later on this year so we can have a few more kids next year. We've had no problem selling the little dwarfs as people seem to want them for pets etc plus I love having them around. Who knows maybe one day we will milk them and make cheese and soap etc but for now we're just enjoying all our goats.
Yes this city raised girl has sure gone country and is loving it.! Who would have thought! :)
Oh and did I mention one of our hens just hatched 14 chicks this week and another hen is setting right now, but I'll save that for another post! :)
( I have more pictures but haven't download them yet. All these pictures were taken with my camera phone since my camera died the day before the goats were born.)
