Do these two look like babysitters to you?

Meet Huey.  Likely, you have met him before.  The goofy old buck that loves everyone, and things all visitors came to get a kiss from him.  Though he is not the youngest meandering around here, we don't discriminate by age.  This old guy loves to hang out with his son, Obediah, and sing to the ladies in the nearby doe pen.  You might have recently seen a blog post, where he and Obediah were letting some Australorp hens raid their dinner.  I guess they figure, since there is always plenty, why worry about some guests for mealtime, right?

This is Obediah, Huey's son.  He recently went off to a goat show, where he was so overstimulated by all of the goats around that he didn't use his best manners.  But outside of that, silly Obediah got lots of praise for being a beautiful buck, though smaller than the other buck there in his age bracket.

But I ask you, do these two look like babysitters to you?

Sure they are friendly and share their food with visiting hens and roos without complaint.  After all, there is always more in the bowl.

But yet again, we have a little pullet- a baby hen- who prefers to spend her days cuddling up to Huey and Obediah.  We tried to put her in the bantam pen with the other two Seramas.  Twice.  But she didn't like it there, and snuck out.  She sleeps at night with the group of bantam Cochins living in Bailey's Sicilian Buttercup pen.  And by day, the noisy little pullet runs around the buck pen with Huey and Obediah and the Australorp girls that have adopted the bucks.  She cuddles up to the bucks, and tells them what to do, though we haven't caught her riding around on Huey's scurs the way we did little Plume Snowflake when she did it as a pullet.  

Well, I guess I can be glad that for the most part, they are one big happy family out there, even if they are a little different!