Some of the Gang

Just some leftovers from the last week.

Purl

Penelope on the brush pile with Addie coming to join her

This is how Bob has spent pretty much every day this summer.

Zinnia

Odie

Freddie waiting for head scratches or peanuts

one of the peacocks

Six and Fannie (who is very close to getting a horn apparatus attached)

the ganders

Chiffon, Venus, and Cookie

Aurora

Milo

Maybeline

I am working on kicking the geese out of the chicken building.

Moira

the young hens are getting braver

Joy

I know it’s kind of a photo overload, but I had a lot of leftovers this week.

Milking Another Girl

I’ve been waiting to get everything back to normal so I could wean some more kids and start milking more girls.

Zinnia

I managed to catch Zinnia’s kids Thursday morning and put them in the Love Shack.

Sonny and Cher

My plan was to wait for the rest of the herd to go out to pasture and then catch them and give them their copper.  Then I was going to put Sonny with the boys and Cher with the girls.

The boys:  Milo and Freddie

The girls:  Fannie and Six

It didn’t work.  They are wild.  Sonny keeps trying to run through the fence and Cher just stands like a deer frozen in the headlights until I try to catch her.  Then she can run as fast as a deer.  Anyhow, they might be staying in the Love Shack until they get sold.

But I am milking Zinnia!

That means more milk to keep making cheese for the winter and yogurt for my breakfast.

And maybe yogurt for lunch and dinner too.

More Kids!

You might have figured out from my previous post that more girls have had their babies.  Here they are in order.  Tuesday night right before bed, Cutie had her twins.

She has a buck and a doe.

Cutie’s buck (with sister in the back)

Cutie’s doe

Then Zinnia had her babies at 2:00 am on March 11th.

Zinnia washing her doe with her buck to the left

She also has a buck and a doe.

Then next morning Wanda had hers.  She is the one I’ve been worried about with her back injury.  She wouldn’t push, and I was afraid to wrestle with her to get them out, so I called the vet to help me.

Wanda and her new twins (sorry for the bad cell phone picture)

She also has a little buck and a little doe.

Wanda’s buck

Wanda and her doe

And then there’s Athena.  I thought she was going to kid Thursday night, so I wanted to shut her in the garage where it’s warmer and I don’t have to worry about wind.

Full udder with the hair away from her teats

I got her in there. Of course, I bribed her with food and then drug her through the building.  It wasn’t long before Wanda and Annie were picking on her and she escaped while I was bringing a panel in to build a pen.  Sooo… I had to catch her again and shut her in.

Athena

When I did my 1:15ish check, she had kids.  She was cleaning the second one off, and the first was getting chilled, so I took him into the soap room to warm up with heat and some colostrum from the freezer.

Athena with the doe she claimed

When I returned him to his maa, she hit him and then knocked me on my butt.  So I now have a bottle kid.  I sent him home with my mom because I worry about Sky. He’ll get spoiled by her.

Athena’s rejected buck

She is being a doting mom to her little girl.

We seem to be on a roll of the buck/doe combination. That just leaves one more for spring break kids!

Come on, Annie!  Farmer Teresa wants to sleep all night!