Spring Has Sprung . . .

 

. . . and after several nasty days spent in the barn, our late February and March kids are bouncing around like THEY are springs!! No way was I going to get ANY posed pictures today . . .

 

The Cherry Butte Crew

 

We are taking a break from our regular programming to introduce and thank our crew! Of course there is Aaron - they are his animals afterall. But I must thank my mom and dad for all of their help and support! They are always there - be it holding goats, running errands at shows, bringing us lunch at shows or doing ALOT of manual labor around the farm and we honestly could not do it with out them! Our husband/dad is usually left at home to care for the animals or lately out of town alot and unable to help out but mom and dad are right there ready to work - heck they have even caught the stinky bucks and put them away a time or two! They LOVE the babies and are saddened along with us when we lose an animal.

THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU!!!

Surprize!!

 

We have been watching and waiting for Mocha to kid for a good week! She is certainly taking her time! I had moved the last batch of babies out to the barn thinking that Mocha would be done in time to bring Surprize in - well I ended up having to move those babies back to garage to get Surprize in the barn.

Mocha was showing more signs of impending kidding then Surprize was, so during the night I went to just one camera screen to keep an eye on Mocha. Then, since I don't work Friday, I took my time going outside to milk.

When I opened the barn door - SURPRISE!! There was a single kid in with Surprize! A F-L-A-S-H-Y 2nd. generation mini-Nubian buckling! I don't think he was very old - he was standing but mama had done nothing to clean him up and he was a stinky smelly mess! Got him inside and kind of cleaned up but had to work like crazy to literally pour four ounces of colostrom down him! By evening I had gotten another four ounces into him but he was rather lethargic all day and most of Saturday - just kind of half heartedly eating. Finally today, I switch to a regualr lamb bar nipple and that suited him and he has been going to town!

We will breed him to Ruth and Mia (both 1st gen) this fall and then he will be for sale.

AWWWWWWW . . .

 

10+ points on the CUTE scale! Itty hopped in the house to show Aaron her pretty pink sweater and the next thing I knew, they were all snuggled down watching a movie! They have spent alot of time this way in the last week - she is just so tiny and cute and loves to snuggle - the others are all so wiggly and squirmy that she gets all the lovin' for her little self.

Introducing the Quads

 

They may be small but they sure are FAST! Finally came up with names for all of them but one. They cry alot and I think I finally decided that they have teeny tiny tummies and as active as they are, they burn off what they eat really fast and are always hungry!! Gives me an excuse to just sit and cuddle with them though.

Whew - talk about multi-tasking!!

Was a rather pleasant afternoon though a bit chilly. Disbudded the rest of the second batch of kids and got them moved out to the barn. Then I cleaned and rebedded a pen for Sera. Had no more started evening milking then Sera decided to get down to business! She had QUADS - 3 does and one buck. One of the does is pretty small, but she has eaten with vigor several times now and was bouncing around a bit ago. No photos yet - by the time I went back out and fed and got dinner on and took a shower, I was done for! Will get photos up tomorrow hopefully.