Four More Kids

We've had four more kids since my last time telling you about babies being born.

Betty Lou is now staying in the greenhouse and browsing in the yard because she has triplets.

Buckling #1

Betty's doeling

Betty and buckling #2

It kind of freaks her out when she has so many kids, so she's sequestered in there until she gets a handle on them.

Helen and doeling

Helen has one big doe.

The Scratching Fence

We have one certain place in the barnyard where we really like to scratch.

Flower

Cinnamon and Flower

Flower and Helen

Cinnamon (Stormy on the back side)

Helen

Cinnamon, Stormy, Helen

It works quite well!

Kids

With all the excitement about getting the green stuff, I forgot to tell you that we have more new kids.

Bonnie started us off with a little girl born May 10th.

She is named Cocoa.

Cocoa

Helen had twins, a boy and a girl, on May 11th.

Max

She kind of freaked out about the girl though.

"I did not give birth to you!  Get away from me!"

Now the human is raising Cindy Lou too.

Cindy Lou

Helen has to make sure she has the right kid nursing.

Finally, Muffin had twin girls yesterday.

They don't have names yet.

I'll let you know once she figures out who they are.

The Look of Bliss

Helen seems to have inherited her mother's love of maple leaves.

The human says the tree is getting ready for a long winter's nap and doesn't really need all those leaves.

Helen hopes she will get to eat all of them.

She certainly does make short work of those leaves.

They even look like they were finger licking good!

Don't worry about me.

Of course the human gave me a delicious snack of maple leaves also.

I hope we get some more.

Helen is Bored

The human shuts Helen into a small pen every afternoon, and she only comes out to get milked in the evening and the morning. After being milked in the morning, she gets let out until the afternoon when she gets locked in again.

She seems to be bored in there by herself.

The human says she wouldn't lock Helen in if she weren't such a brat, running from her instead of just going in to get milked.

Three Generations

Minnie in back. Her daughter Betty Lou in front and granddaughter Helen standing.

Collars

I am not the only goat around here gaining weight. In fact, a lot of our girls seem to be outgrowing their collars!

Maggie needs a bigger collar. She is one of the yearlings, and she has really filled out and grown.

Helen, another yearling, needed her collar loosened, and now she won't let the human catch her. She looks like some kind of stray without a collar.

Look who else needs a bigger collar. She's not maturing, though. She's positively fat.

Maybe I'll outgrow mine if I keep eating. Scarlet doesn't have a collar either, but she didn't outgrow hers. She lost it fighting. The human wasn't too happy with her.