Sunday, January 11, 2009

+4=11

We had two more baby goats yesterday and two this morning. This brings our total up to 11. We have one more goat that has not had babies but she will probably not have hers for another month or so. We started out good having equal numbers of girls and boys but these last four were all boys. So we have 4 girls and 7 boys, sounds like a future barbecue to me. We got some action photos of the goat having her babies last night, so they are a little graphic.

Here is the goat starting to have the second baby, those are little feet sticking out.


Here is the baby freshly out, still mostly in it's fluid sack


Here is mama cleaning it up, and that is it's brother in the background


This is one of the boys born today while we were at church


Here is other brother that was born today. He was our biggest baby. We averaged around 6 pounds for most of the babies. He weighed in at a hefty 9.1 pounds.


We had several friends and some of my co-workers and their families come out this weekend to see the babies.

This is one of my co-workers, Cathy, holding one of the babies born last night. For those of you who know our goats, this is Crazy's baby. Crazy has smaller ears that stick out a little. Well, this poor baby got the ear stick out gene and her ears are longer, it makes her look a little "special"


This is some friends of ours daughter, Sophie

5 comments:

Allison Nelson said...

I could have done without seeing some of those pictures. :)

Josh and Margo said...

It's just the facts of life.

Kritter Krit said...

The feet sticking out -- yowser!

Significantly LESS cute than the little girl holding the baby goat. =)

P.S The word verification for this comment was "muthr". Huh. Pretty fitting for a post about mamas and babies!

Anonymous said...

I, personally, love the play by play of the birth. Very interesting! Those babies are SO very cute! I want one. Can you ship it to Jersey?

Sophie's picture takes the cake though. Way to go Sophie! She looks like a pro! I know what Kristy's going to have to get now...

Josh and Margo said...

I could just drive it up to you, if I remember right it is about 21-22 hours if you drive straight through.