Can I share? Baby goats!

Minutes old baby goats.

A couple of notes:

1) I didn't chuck the baby. I set him down and he sort've toppled into the camera.

2) The camera's the webcam on my laptop.

3) The wire is now out of the pen. (I was repairing the fence last weekend -- goats are brutal on fencing -- and missed that little piece.)

4) That is the world's best dog.

I had all boys this year -- I lost four does (and a buck and a wether) to a dog pack last summer. I only have two does left and was really bummed to have all bucks. The older white doe is eight or nine. I haven't decided if I want to try breeding her again. I had hoped to get a doe kid out of her and then retire her after this breeding.

I will probably keep one of the bucklings in the video as a backup buck & sell the rest, and try again for more does next winter. The two older white kids will go with me to the farmer's market next weekend, if I can shake the death plague from hell that's settled in my lungs. So it goes with livestock ...

These guys don't have much meat on them for eating. They're Nigerian goats, which are a dairy breed. Most people want them for pets or, in the case of girls if you're so lucky as to get some, for milk.

But the babies are fun anyway.

Oh, Nigerians almost always have multiples. Mine generally have two or three. The white doe -- Princess -- was one of a set of quads.

Jean Marie said:

Clicked on the link, but it wouldn't load. I'll try again in a bit, but I love baby goats

A friend of mine has one on her farm and I visit, regularly. She's adorable. I'd love to have one, or 2. Maybe, in my new place I'll be able to. 'Course, I'll have to check w/ the pups and see what they have to say about it...

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You realize your sig line is really evil and I just spent a good thirty seconds trying to squish it?