Farmer Life 168

 We have had a major goat explosion in the last seven days.  Actually seven kids in five days from three does!!  Yeah, it's been an exhausting week.  I'm going to sort the post out between each doe to help keep things easy to understand.  First the disclaimers... the pictures are bad because.. well cell phones, low light and red heat lamps for keeping kids warm just doesn't make for very good pictures.  It was cold and rainy all week.  We literally had five days straight of torrential downpours. A third of our property was under knee deep water several times, but luckily no buildings flooded.  Then there was the scary storms and tornado threats.  Have I ever mentioned I hate spring in the south?  Also none of the kids have names yet.  I'm trying to wait until they are all born before I decide which name I want to give to which kids (I have some picked out, just have to match them up). So I'll try to keep it as organized as possible ...

These three girls are always underfoot whenever we go out to the pasture.  They are so adorable and friendly.  I know raising goats as pets can make them into pests, but I sure prefer kids raised with handling over ones that are raised basically feral.  Last weekend we spent three hours doing annual vaccines, deworming those who needed it and trimming everyone's hooves.  Having friendly goats makes those chores so much easier. Anyway this post is about some rearranging of living situations with some of the goats.  The does all stayed where they were, but we moved the bucks around.  I'm going to let the pictures break up the text.  Please forgive the blurry cell phone pictures.  I'm saving up for a new camera (can't stand not having one), but it will be a while. Andesine is so cute, chewing on hubby's glove. First off we moved Jasper into the pen with Dottie and Big Mamma.  We're working with our vet to try out a couple of options to see if w...