Goat Kidding at Arrowhead Farm

That is the name of our farm, in case you didn't know!  I finally put together a goat kidding slideshow!  Check it out (a little graphic)!  Buttercup and Cupcake and all the kids are doing well after a week of adventure in milking and bottle feeding and hanging out at the store in a playpen!  This has been a rough week for John and I went it comes to sleeping with regular kid feeding.  I am happy to say that the kids officially move into the barn tonight!  They are too big for thier playpen already and its time to move up and out already!  We will still do one night feeding for another week.  After that both Cupcake's kids and Lamancha's kids will go in thier own stall at night.  I will start milking Buttercup and Cupcake in the mornings and then just Cupcake at night so Buttercup's kids still get thier milk.

I have been blessed to have a new AWESOME friend, Tricia!  She grew up with goats and has been helping me milk, giving me tips, and giving me a lot of sanity :)  She also adopted all 4 of the baby goats I fostered this year.  Thank goodness for friends and family!

Be well!

More babies!

More babies delivered! These are Cupcake's two babies - one boy (black and white) and one girl (white). They are very long and skinny. The boy has a bum leg that we hope will recooperate quickly, we think maybe the ligaments got stretched in Cupcake's belly. Cupcake loves these kids and gives them lots of attention but refuses to feed them so they are with us most of the time. I have learned a very crash course in milking. Poor Cupcake has to deal with my learning curve!

Buttercup gave birth to twins!

Our Lamancha Buttercup had 2 beautiful baby girls this afternoon!  We are so proud of her, she is a super mom!  More pictures tomorrow when I find the cord to my camera!  - Be well

Baby goats!

These are the babies I am fostering for another farm until they have the living space ready.  They are the cutest little things ever but I'm afraid they've been rough on my poor pregnant goats who have bagged up early.  Our goats, Buttercup and Cupcake are due tomorrow but today might be the day.  I say this although I've been watching Cupcake obsessively since Sunday when she showed her first signs - which turned out to be the beginning of nothing....  I am writing this to you from my car parked in front of the barn - my new office space.  I can also work from the house with the 'baby' monitor but I have a feeling the goats are playing a game - they wait until I get settled and then make a noise that makes me run back down here!  I swear I saw Cricket laugh one time when I can running down at 3am in my pj's and slippers!

We've got babies!

This is Sasnoodle ('SI snoodle -star wars) and Arwen ('arrow win' - lord of the rings)  We are adopting/fostering 4 goats.  These are my two tiny lamancha mixes and then there are two older girls I will share pictures of when I borrow my nieces camera!  We also have a goat showing signs of labor - Cupcake!  We are thinking she will have 2 babies.  We will see....  I spent last night sleeping on the barn floor with her hoping it would be soon but nothing yet.  Keep your fingers crossed for us!

I love Oak Leaf Dairy!

We went to Oak Leaf Dairy tonight to get our hay and say 'Hi' to our friends Mark and Jackie and to see the baby goats! There are some boys and girls that need wonderful adopting families. This is a little boy. Please let me know right away if you are thinking of adopting a kid this year!!!! I picked out 2 girls I MUST have. I've just got to convince John......

Hanging with the kids, the human ones....

I was driving the kids to our drum class last night and Emma told Kaylah she really liked Kaylah's question to Sedona (all nieces), Kaylah had asked Sedona who lives on the other side of the country; "If you chased the sun, would the sun never set?"  Chase said (he is 15 which makes it funnier), 'its too bad Spongebob and Patrick didn't think of that when they had the very best day with Wormy, it would have never ended!'  This lead to a conversation with all of them about how you would attempt to chase the sun.  I love hanging out with my nieces and nephews, it never fails to make me LOL or put a smile on my face.