I have struggled to get this post up since Flora’s kids were born. Anybody who has children knows how difficult it is to get a picture of more than one of them where they are all smiling, all looking at the camera and preferably all have clean faces. Now add two goat kids in the mix and, well, you can imagine the difficulty. So, here are some of my haphazard attempts at putting these 5 kids onto the blog:
At 8, Gabe is generally the most reliable to sit still for pictures.
We’ve decided to call the little girl Lily. She’s white, she was born on Easter weekend, and we have a plant theme when naming our goats. Appropriate, no?
The kids have been given the ability to explore the goat yard today. Up until this point they’ve been kept in the kdding pen to keep them separate from Pepper, our Machiavellian herd queen.
Lily is delightfully awkward. Her left ear is droopy like her Nubian father, yet her right ear is erect and hints at her Saanan ancestry through her mother.
This is one of my favorite pictures so far. It captures the peace with the animals in the early morning.
This was our Easter picture with our family’s Easter Lily. Daniel had to have stitches above his eye, which meant we had to get a little creative as to how to avoid that being noticeable. Not everything needs to be remembered for all posterity.
This is usually what happens when I try to take pictures of the goats. One of them thinks that I’m holding grain in my hand and comes to investigate up close. Yes, that is Flora’s lower lip. Howja guess?
That’s been what we’ve been up to the last 2 weeks. Both goat kids have been disbudded (had their horn buds removed so that they don’t grow) and the buckling will be neutered at the end of this week. He has no official name as his future is as yet to be determined.
And now… Pepper is only about 2 weeks away herself! Time to start waiting all over again.
