Lillian

My first kid of the season was born yesterday. One little girl. Her parents are Elesmèra and Linus (from Tiny Hill Farm). Unfortunately she was born with an extra teat and can't be bred. I will be selling her as a pet. If anyone is interested in an adorable Nigerian Dwarf doeling please let me know. We'll be calling her Lillian while she's here.

Pippi's Babies

Pippi Kidded the afternoon of the 24th. She had a girl and a boy both of which were huge and strong right away. It doesn't really surprise me, considering their mother. I brought out all my newborn baby goat coats and none of them fit! They are wearing the same size coats as my three week old babies! The girl is the red, brown colored on, and the boy is the creamy, Palomino. Neither have any moon spots at all, the only real marking is a dark line down the doeling's spine. I named them Lacey and Rugen. Count Tyrone Rugen to be precise. That's the name of the six fingered man in Princess Bride, in case you were wondering! They are both beautiful! They are easily my favorite babies I've ever had born. I will be hanging on to Lacey and I can't even tell you how much I want to keep Rugen. I have to control myself though, keeping a boy is out of the question...But that doesn't mean I don't want to :) Lacey is very cute though, and they both have such sweet temperaments! 

Lacey

Rugen

Crazy mamma goat

Pippi and the Babies

Babies, about half an hour old

Elesmera kidded also, she had one little doeling. Unfortunately there was something wrong with her when she was born and she only lived to be about twenty-four hours old. I named her Jane. 

Jane

Matilda's Babies

Buttercup's first steps

Matilda kidded on the 28th around three thirty in the afternoon.  She had a girl and a boy, and they are so darn tiny!  I'm calling them Buttercup and Westley. Tilly is such a good mamma, and she doesn't mind Leipchen's kids in there with her at all.

Baby Westley, a couple hours old

Tilly cleaning Westley

Fezzik welcoming his new aunt into the world

Westley two days old

Mamma and grandma

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.

Gideon and Hans

Faye has been very lonely being the only kid on the farm, And the "Adults" didn't really want her hanging out with them. So to help her be less lonely I have borrowed two wethers from Larissa to keep her company.
Larissa doesn't usually name her wethers... I told her that if any nameless animal was coming to my house that it would end up with a "Nick Name"! She was okay with that!



First we had Gideon (Or Gid!). Him and Hans are Tilly's brothers (Different dad, same mother), Gideon looked a lot like her... in the face any way!
Gideon and Faye got along great but he has a new home now. He's been adopted by some one who wants to bring him on her walks every day! I think he'll be happy!
I will miss Gid!





Me and Hans!




Just today Hans came to stay with his half sis' for a while. Same dad, different mum! It get's very confusing! But don't worry... there's no inbreeding!
I really haven't gotten to know Hans yet. Faye seems to like him and My mom really likes him! She picked the name. His coloring and markings are very pretty, but I have to say I like Gideon's temperament!





Here's Faye and Hans

Faye Again

I took Faye out side today with the herd. It was such a beautiful day today and I wanted to see what Matilda and Pippi thought of her. They both gently head butt her a little at first. I was going to go scold them but decided that they weren't hurting her and they had to learn to accept her and she had to learn how to be in a herd. Eventually they stooped butting and only gave her warnings if she came too close. I was happy with how Faye was fitting in and how healthy she was acting.
Annika is a good mommy but not the best I've seen. I've heard of mommies who protect their baby kids and stay by them all the time. Annika lets her nurse and cleans her when she's dirty but other than that she would much rather be with the herd! That's okay though, I think she'll get better, this is just her first time kidding.


Okay, so so far all I've posted on here is my new baby...you all must think This is a pretty boring blog! Don't worry, I will eventually post more!

Faye with her Momma

Here's another video,
Click here to see Faye with her mother, Annika.

Baby Faye being Born

Click this link To see little Faye being Born!

Meet Faye

March 9th, 2012, 10:30 (ish) AM Annika brought Faye into the world.
Momma and I slept down stairs all night listening to the baby monitor. Annika was very kind to us and had her babe during the day! It's one of the first babies we've ever had born that wasn't in the middle of the night or 3 AM!
Faye is Annika's first and only baby. She only had one.

I apologize for the bad quality of the pictures.



Annika didn't really have many contractions, and certainly not strong ones. I ended up helping her at the end cause she seemed to think she was done. It was SUCH a great experience, and I'll never forget helping to bring this baby into the world.






After Annika did some cleaning of the baby we brought Faye inside. She was wet and shivering, we wanted to get her dry. Her and I sat in the sunlight in our big window so she could dry and warm up. Sadie helped to clean her and Lila rubbed noses with her. I think the puppy has taken over role of Auntie!



I'll post some better pictures when I get them.