During the tour of homes we met John, another person that has goats. After some talking, we agreed to let him borrow our "stud" goat, Billy. We got Billy as a baby and he has lived a great life and has sowed his seed many a time. On our farm he has fathered: Banelli, Esme, Bonnie, and Lily. Then for John, he fathered 8 additional goats. This past February, we decided that we have finally increased our heard to what we wanted and I took care of the problem. However, before that happened, we had 3 additional pregnant goats. Marie had a baby about 6 weeks ago named Italy. Unfortunately, Italy life was very short and she was killed at only 1 week old.
This left us with only 8 total goats: Billy, Toby, Marie, Banelli, Bonnie, Lily, Maple and Josie (Esme has also lost her life at the hands of a predator). Then in a matter of 12 hours... we increased our herd by 50% - 4 babies born. We now have Mason and Coaltrain (twins from Banelli) and Alpha and Omega (twins from Josie). I missed all them from being born by less than 30 minutes. I was checking on them, went back to the house for something, came back and they were wet and laying on the ground.
I have to admit that next to human babies, baby goats are probably the second sweetest babies I have ever seen (even better than puppies or kittens)!
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| Coaltrain playing in the pipe - he is only 2 days old here. |
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| Omega getting some lunch |
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| Alpha |
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| Mason |
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