This morning when I went to the barn the babies were all screaming at me - they were hungry. The babies spend the night in a separate pen from mom so I can milk in the morning. After milking they get to go in and spend the day with mom.
We are in the midst of kidding with our wonderful Nigerian dwarf goats. On March 11 Oragami gave Quaid a beautiful set of triplets (our first trips) and on March 15 Panda gave Aly a beautiful little doe named Dora. (Quaid and Aly are my two legged kids).
Today I'm sitting here listening to the baby monitor for Pepper to go into labor. As huge as she is I'm expecting triplets or more. Last July she gave us a beautiful set of twins (Dani and Speck). I can't wait to see what she has this time. Dani is in the star on the left of your screen. It is so exciting when we have babies - although it can be a little exhausting for me - I have a baby monitor in the house so I can hear what's going on in the barn and at night I usually get woken up several times.
This week my husband has been working on getting a new water line out to the barn. The old hydrants just weren't in the right places for efficiency. Yesterday they trenched all the way from the house to the barn and then to his shop too. Hopefully they'll get the rest of the project finished before too long. The yard looks like it has been attached by huge worms.
Here's pics of the new babies born so far this month.
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