Evening in the Barn

 I was Milking Matilda and I turned my head and  something about the way my new couple bales of hay looked caught my eye...I hollered to Mary who was playing with her chick and asked her if she'd get me the camera. I took the picture using a lot of different settings. I think they came out nicely but they are dark (it was late in the evening as I was milking).

 I did some with flashes because of how dark the others were but I really don't like the look the flash gives to pictures

 The babies were watching me through their stall door (you can see one of them in the middle dark one) and wanted attention so I messed around with my camera some more and took some pictures of them through the wire.

Shaved Goats

We got all the goats clipped for the summer. It will make Tilly's cart training easier in multiple ways. The harness will no longer pull at her fur and she will be a lot cooler. She gets so hot in the summer. Now I have pictures of them clipped but I completely forgot to take before pictures so I will just pull up some old ones. I only remembered to take "in the process" pictures of Faye.

Faye

I put the milking stand in a bush so they could eat to occupy themselves! Get's their mind off the clipping!

Don't you just LOVE my milking stand!? It was my Birthday present from my grand mother! It's AWESOME!!!!

I was very surprised when I shaved the buckskins...They completely changed colors! All those white spots onLeibchen were dark brown! The same thing happened with Faye witch you'll be able to see in the before and after pictures- I'll post those in their own posts. it will make it easier on my part.

Leibchen

Leia

Annika

Pippi

Tilda 

Here are more pictures of my babies! I took them away from the mom today and bottle fed them. they both accepted the bottle just fine. Tilly's not to crazy about being away from her babes. She and her 'sisters' are in the back pen while the babies are in the front pen, Tilly keeps hollering to her kids. It's heart breaking to hear but she'll get over it quickly. 

 Top is Leia, Bottom is Leabchen

 Both Leibchen

 Left is Leia right is Leibchen.

 You remember these coats? they are the same ones I had on Faye! The blue and green one I got at the same place that I got the plaid ones.

 Let's not forget Faye! Shes a great big sister! She's already teaching them how to head butt, jump around, and nibble grass! Shes 8 weeks old now and weaned. At 6 weeks she wanted nothing to do with her bottle and was eating grain, hay, and greens like the big goats. Faye and Pippi are Best Buddies. They are escaping nearly every day and both very hefty! Though I'm not worried about them escaping because I know they wont go far from the herd.

More Babies

Tilly had her kids approximately one AM May Forth! I'm very excited! 

She had two girls, the one on the left is Leia, and the right one is Leibchen (Pronounced Leap-shin, it's German for Sweet Heart!)  These are the only pictures I have right now but I'll add more shortly. 

I missed the birth cause we didn't hear her while we were sleeping. We are pretty sure they were born around one AM just cause Sadie (Our dog) woke mom up around one like she thought something was going on out side...though mom didn't check the barn cause she didn't hear any thing. We are just going to go with one  AM.

I named one Leia because they were born on Intergalactic Star Wars day! Leia means Delicate.