First Kid Photo: Profile; Aries

Don't have much time today, but I did want to get up a baby goat photo, so I'm putting this one up. Just got ahold of my camera again, and so new ones should be forthcoming,
but for now we'll have to get by with this shot of Aries, Argentina's buckling, helping out with the flower bed upkeep early last week.




Nice flat topline on this fellow!
And that side spot... does it look like a wispy ghost? A strangely shaped panther? ...A ghost panther?
Who knows!

We've Had An Explosion!

Well, wha'd'ya'know... in the last two days we've had ten kids. Yes, that's right. Ten.
Egypt kidded out first on Wednesday morning with a tiny single buckling, a little chamoise with a star. Then Tigir went into action and produced triplets, two sundgau bucks and a little coal black doeling. All three were pretty small, (which is good, and understandable with triplets!) and the one little guy is the tiniest baby we've had for several years. He's super cute!
Then Verde decided to include herself into the mix and kidded out late that evening with triplets as well, two big chamoise bucks and a slightly smaller black doeling.
("What is it with black doelings?" We ask!)
With the size of those three it is amazing that they all fit in there! But she never looked especially huge, so... wonders will never cease, I guess!
Then the next morning Ave kidded with the third set of triplets! A tiny edition of her mother, a little larger chamoisee, and an even lankier sundgau buckling. We were glad to get the two little does, our percentages were kind of getting murdered there for a while!
So that keeps me busy running to the barn for feedings.
I will have to try and get some photos of them taken and posted. My camera went walkabout with my sister and so I won't have that until she returns late, late, late on Sunday. (Yes, that sister. She is gone, and so I am all alone in a forest of little goats!)

It's Begun!

Well, Signet Dairy Goat's first kid of the season has hit the ground!
He's a perky little sundgau with white splashes, out of Signet Argentina and by Signet Sir Jocelyn. And he's got a perfectly healthy appetite!
[He actually hit the ground quite a few days ago, but this blogger-thing has been giving me trouble with signing in. And with things being busy, I've not had a bunch of time to devote to it!]
And Argentina is doing a great job of providing, her milk production is climbing swiftly and nearing a gallon a day already. I am happily anticipating what it will look like a few more months into her lactation.
In other news, we went to a local plant trade yesterday and came home with a bunch more different plants, which will add the the wealth of our collection already. And the weather was perfect for plants to be out of the ground... heavily overcast and just a wee tad drizzly, but not too much. So the little plants are sure to be happy and feel up to a vigorous start as soon as we get them into the ground. They will fill out our new terrace beds pretty well.
So, spring continues to get springier and I couldn't be more thrilled about it. The trees are starting to really leaf out, so their tops are covered in a sort of lacey-looking bright, light green, which is uniquely spring.
And Ave should be right around the corner with her babies...