New Kids!

[Meaghan]

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right area, but I'm super excited because we got a message yesterday from our goat breeder, and she had four doelings on the ground for us to check out!

So, when we went over to evaluate if they were good quality kids and out of good mothers, we got some pictures. We decided that we are going to get all four of them instead of waiting a few more months for some other does to drop their kids (it just works out better timing wise for the rest of the farm).

The four does were two pairs of sisters, and both pairs have the same buck sire. The brown pair were born on January 1st, the black, tan, and white pair were born on January 2nd!

So, here are the new additions! We are going to be getting them at 4 weeks, so around the first week of February!

Doe #1:

Doe #2:

Doe #3:

Doe #4:

Sorry the photos aren't that great, my phone doesn't do well with tiny creatures bouncing around!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

So exciting!!!!!!!!! I have been there too.... The wait is killer!!!

They are so stinkin adorable!!!!

Pics of the sire/dam would be great too

 

[goat-heaven]

Aww so cute geez I can't wait for my does to kid

 

[Southern by choice]

Congratulations!

So exciting! So you get to have bottle babies!
So which one is your fav and what are their names going to be?

 

[OneFineAcre]

Very nice

 

[jodief100]

They are adorable! Congratulations

 

[Meaghan]

Thanks everyone! The wait will definitely be hard, but we have a lot of things to accomplish in the next few weeks (painting the house, repairing the fence, getting the hay, grain, etc, settling in the guard llama, and everything else), so it will probably fly by! The breeder is going to wean them onto cow's milk for us in the mean time so that they won't have that stress along with the stress of moving.

@Goat Whisperer: I didn't think to snap pictures of her does, or the buck. When we were there, we were still on the fence if we were going to get any, or all, of the kids. Sorry! I looked around on her website but she's an older woman and hasn't updated it in years. She does most of her selling by word of mouth, so she doesn't need to have a functioning or up to date website.

@Southern by choice: Yep, all will be on the bottle until 8-10 weeks. My personal favorite is the littlest black girl, the last picture. She's tiny, but fiesty when a bottle comes out and she's got good potential in my opinion.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Congrats, very cute! Hope you have extra hands when bottle feeding....baby goats really like their bottle

 

[Southern by choice]

I like cows milk if you can't get goats milk. I think there is less issue than with replacers. Being Nubians you really want to think about keeping them on milk for 12 weeks.

 

[Baymule]

They are adorable!