We feel so blessed to have had two beautiful baby goats born here at Patriot's Dream today. The mama dam, a light carmel pygmy and father sire, a light grey agouti pygmy buck, blessed our farm with one light carmel buck and one dark agouti/ black buck.
As beautiful as they are, we can see how their mama loves them, but cannot seem to get them to nurse. Mama is fighting to feed them herself and not be milked, so we were only to get a few ccs of colostrum for each of the babies thus far. Bailey is out trying again with a syringe at this late hour, trying to get something in them but keep them with their mama.
Those sweet, beautiful faces are so worth all of the exhausting effort. We know how blessed we are to have the opportunity to care for them, even with the ups and downs and exhaustion that comes with it.
Maaaaa! They sure do have a lot to say! They are full of life and cuddles. We have not begun to think of names for them yet, if you all have ideas, please feel welcome to share!
Baby kisses are oh, so sweet! You can see the love on mama Silver's face.
We have also had a couple Buckeye eggs go into the incubator this week, along with the little bantam Cochins that excelled at fair last year. The brooder space is overrun, and a few of the larger ones are waging escapes, telling us they are ready to move tot he next brooder on the back porch.
The mama goose is busy sitting on her eggs, answering the question as to whether we will be trying to hatch them. Her gander has taken to his role of protector fervently. They selected an are away from their usual space, under planter boxes by the swingset, so we will have to see what will happen so we appropriately move the protective enclosure in for her.
Surrounded by cuteness, we are working our way up to the county fair next month, and still enjoying the adorable babies form the photo contest. Please take a moment to vote for your favorites!
Baby Animal Photo Contest Voting...
If you have a photo or note about what's going on at your farm that you would like to share, please feel welcome to send them along to the blog and facebook page in a message to me. We would love to share them, and our readers love (like I do) to live vicariously. Hey, don't we all?
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