The kids are here!

Kidding season is now officially over and the milking has began. We ended up with four beautiful goat kids. Jewels gave birth on May 2nd and gave us a lovely doeling we named Juliet. She weighed in at 8.8 lbs.

Heather gave birth on May 4th to a sweet doeling we named Tessa. She was a hefty 10.2 lbs.

Elizabeth kept us waiting past her due date. I think she was holding out for a crowd to gather:

We were so happy my mother-in-law, Ruth, my sister-in-law, LouAnn and her kids could come watch the birth. It was so much fun to get to see our niece and nephew watch the birth. I hope they had a great time and learned a lot.

We had given up hope that any of our does would have multiples, then Elizabeth surprised us again...



Introducing Eowyn and Aragorn, our first set of goat twins. Eowyn, a doeling and the lighter colored of the two, weighed in at 8 lbs and Aragorn, a buckling, weighed 10 lbs. Aragorn is polled, meaning he was born without horns.

It is so interesting to me the variety in marking between all the kids. Their moms are marked similar and they have the same father. All the little girls ended up with Pepper's frosted ears. Our buckling is the only one who is a solid color.

We are so proud of our new additions. We are planning on retaining all the girls and finding a good home for our little buckling. More on the milking adventure soon.