More of the Kids

Bee and Floyd with grandmaa Dolly

the third triplet, Opie, with maa Sidney

Mina and Angus

Antigone’s girl

Shrek

Prince and Elton (don’t think that really looks comfortable)

Pops

Carmen

Mocha

Thalia and Ty

Zane

Latte

Finally Introductions

I’ve mentioned names of some of the kids from this round, but I’ve not done a formal introductory post, so here they are.  The first two born were Chiffon’s Thalia and Ty.

Thalia

Ty

LilyAnn had her twins next:  Palomino (Mina) and Angus.

LilyAnn with Mina and Angus

Antigone’s girl really vexed me.  I couldn’t decided between Pistol or Sassy.  Finally, I settled on ????.

Sassy Pants Pistol (I honestly haven’t fully decided on her name, and since she’s a keeper, I’ll put more thought into it.)

Rosie was next.  Her two little red-headed kids are Reba and Rupert.

Rupert (behind) and Reba nursing

Ostara had her twins next.  They are Zeke and Zane.

Zane and Zeke

She was followed by her mom, Cupid having her twins: Sir Elton John (Elton) and Prince.

Sir Elton John and Prince

Penelope was next with her little wandering girl, Carmen.

Carmen

Aphrodite was the last of the girls I planned.  She of course, lost her buck, but she has a beautiful doe, Harmonia.

Harmonia

Then I had my four unplanned girls.  Venus started them off with her little girl, Tootsie Roll (Tootsie).

Tootsie

Hera was next.  Her twins are Dusty and Abe.

Hera with Abe and Dusty

Zinnia followed with her doe and buck: Silk and Stu.

Of course, Tansy finished things off in dramatic fashion with her little boy, Thunder.

Thunder

Welcome to the farm babies!

The Girls Meet

I planned on putting Maybeline with Skittles on Saturday, but I spent a ridiculous amount of time looking for Penelope’s little doe.  I couldn’t find her anywhere.

Penelope had no idea where her baby was either.

Then I remembered I had heard a kid crying when I was getting ready to leave the farm, but I wasn’t too worried. I figured one of the spring break babies had overslept and was just running behind.  Anyhow, after a dozen trips around the barnyard, buildings, and north paddock, I finally remembered that kid calling.  I headed out to pasture and found Penelope’s baby happily resting in the middle of the main herd.  I think I’ve decided to name her Carmen, as in “where in the world is Carmen SanDiego?”

Carmen was happy to be back to nurse.

Unfortunately, the goats and Maybeline all followed me up from pasture, so I had to wait to get Maybeline by herself in order to bring her to the other side of the barnyard.  Even after the goats went back out to pasture, I couldn’t get Maybeline to come into the barnyard, so it had to wait again.

Maybeline wasn’t coming any closer.

Finally, on Sunday afternoon, I caught Maybeline in the barnyard while the goats were still out in pasture. I shut the gate so she couldn’t go back out to pasture and then I started getting things ready so I could put her in the house pasture with Skittles.

First, I had to move food pans and then give my moms some grain in the north paddock.  I shut them up there.  I didn’t get all the kids, but Maybeline is fine with kids.  I just needed to keep all those moms from swarming the Morton building pen.

 

Next, I gave Skittles some llama feed.  But I put it on the other side of the Morton building, so I could shut her in the yard.  I didn’t want her going into the barnyard.

I got it done, but she figured something was up, so she was right back checking out my panel keeping her in the yard.  I hoped she’d finish eating while I got Maybeline.

That was the easy part.  I just opened the panel in front of the south door to the barn, and she came right on through.

Then I got a bit of llama feed, and she was happy to follow me into the Morton building pen.

She’s not a big eater of pelleted feed, so when I removed the panel into the yard, she quickly went to check things out.

Unfortunately, this was the time that Skittles finally decided to eat her feed.

Maybeline might have been checking it out.

Skittles did spit on her.  Maybeline is a good girl though, and she just left to go explore.

Skittles was really not sure about Maybeline being in the yard and Morton building with her.

I’m guessing it won’t take long for them to be good friends though.

Maybeline has a way of making friends.