Goat Kids

Okay, so it's been a rough year so far, what with me being injured and all.  I have already had a trip to the urgent care center and the ER, and that all happened before spring even got here.  In January, I managed to slip on the ice getting out of my truck and sprain just about everything in my ankle and foot.  If you are going to do something, you might as well do a thorough job.  So that is still recovering (but no more crutches!  Although no one really expects you to do barn chores in crutches.  It does, however, mean that you can't really go out and play with the baby goats either).  And then there was the migraine that sent me to the ER a few weeks ago.  That took a little while to recover from.

So I have finally managed to get some pictures of the goat kids that were born at the end of January/early February.  Unfortunately we did not have any angora kids.  One of our angoras miscarried triplets early in the season, and another had a stillborn kid. We are sad about that.  But we do have a boeragora kid (Boer/Angora cross).  Missy, one of our Boer crosses, decided to get busy with Basil, the Angora buck.  My husband was not happy about the resulting kid, even if she is totally adorable.  He would report back to me daily on the progress of the goat kids, and jokingly tell me that there was a "llama" baby in the barn (the mixed goat kid).  So somehow she got stuck with the name "Princess Llama."

"Princess Lllama," our Boeragora.

We also have three other goat kids, also doelings:

Butterscotch, Copine, and Sierra.

One set of twins and a single.  Since there were three of them, we each got to name one.  You can tell they all have the same dad!

Here's my girl, Butterscotch, giving me a weird look:

My husband's goat, Sierra, has a peculiar habit of jumping on top of any adult goat willing to let her.  And then standing there for as long as she can.  Usually her mother is the only goat willing to put up with this (I will spare you the pictures of her falling off all the other goats, as those aren't as funny to look at as it is to watch).

This photo is not staged. And apparently none of the goats are impressed.

And finally, Colleen hanging out with Princess Llama: