OK, baby goat number 1...

I went out at 5am after tsu left for work and checked on the girls. Sage looks ready to burst so I've been checking them when he leaves for work, at breakfast, lunch, dinner and usually before bed. Well at 5am no one looked like anything but sleepy and bored. Their ligaments in their hind quarters weren't soft, no discharge, no standing posty legged in back.

Well, then at 6:30 or 7am after Tiff got on the bus I just decided to check them one more time and there stood Rosemary with a bloody bum.

My first reaction was "crap. She aborted." She just started getting an udder and wasn't big at all so I expected her to be the last of the three to have her babies. I go in, see the mess in the bedding and no sign of a fetus and then I hear this tiny little "bleeeee". So I got Parsley out into the outdoor pen, got Sage and Thyme into his pen and lowered the heat lamp down, ran into the house to grab my baby goat birth kit with towels and iodine and what have you and trucked back out there. I flipped the baby over to check his umbilical and discovered he is most assuredly a he.

So, without further adieu...

Baby goat number 1:

OMGBABY!!!!

single buckling born to Rosemary between 5am and 6:30 am this morning.

details to follow, along with pictures....

Happy Festivus!!!

So... look, the full water tank!



The heater makes bubbles for some weird reason.

A picture of Mister Fish before the tank was filled:



I was killing time while Brego ate his lunch (I'll get to that soon) and fluffing the hay in the goat's stalls. I just leave the hay they won't eat for bedding and every other day I fluff it to let the goatberries fall to the bottom and to let it air out. I laid the Ladies table on it's side and moved it out from the wall some, this way they have some semi-enclosed areas to curl up in, for them and for the babies. That doesn't stop them from climbing on it. Please ignore the gross blue blanket. It was Sparrow's Blankie until he got bored of playing with it, now I gave it to the goats and they toss it around. It looks horrible but they have so much fun with it that I leave it in there. In the summer I hose it down now and then. Right now it is just jammed with hay and straw.



Sage's udder is twice the size it was just two weeks ago. YAY!!



Anyway, Brego's lunch... I've spent almost 2 years now trying to perfect an easy way to feed Brego without having him share it with Mary. It wasn't until recently that some folks online were talking about feedbags and it occurred to me that a feedbag could be the perfect solution. Well, it took me a month or two to earn enough cash through doing surveys to get one, but I got one! Last night he got his first meal in it. He was confused, and so were the other two little boogers. But he very quickly figured out that meant all the food was his and he COULDN'T share.

So breakfast today was his first regular meal in the bag, since last night I stood right there and made sure he didn't freak out with the bag on his face. But this morning I put it on him, then got hay, fed the goats, checked and filled everyone's water, and by then he was done and I took the bag off. But at lunch time Brego is the only one who gets anything, so I fed him, got some pictures, then went and hung out with the goats while he munched.

PICTURES!

Hey! What 'cha doing?



Can I have some?



HEY! What are you guys doing?



DANG IT!! I can't get in there!!



HAHAHA!!! The minis were SOOO ticked off!





It looks like the bag is going to work GREAT.