Trading Babies

This morning, the human came out to the barnyard and got the little gosling and took him away. She said she was taking the baby to his forever farm with her sister.

When she came home, she brought back the two kids, Hickory and Chuck.

I think they'll be happy to be at home with their siblings and everyone else.

I think they'll be happy to play in the pasture too.

Playing

Fionn and Squirt were having fun playing on the stump.

Isn't it nice to have a friend to play with?

Pebbles and Penny Forget Something

We were all out in pasture this weekend enjoying some nice dry grass. Finally, we went back up to the barnyard for some basking. Pebbles and Penny forgot something in pasture.

The human asked them where their kids were. They didn't know!

The human went down to pasture to hunt for them. Look where she found them!

They were laying there under the watchful eye of the cranky llama. I guess he is good for something.

They boys woke up and looked around.

Nobody was there! What would they do? The human called for them to come with her, and off they went.

They made it past the geese.

They found their friend Bob.

Once they got close, they knew the way and took off.

Pebbles and her boys.

Penny and her boys.

What am I going to do with those girls?

Oh No!

The human told me how many compliments she's gotten on all of our happy, healthy and clean kids.

Does Felix look clean?

Someone forgot to tell him that he wasn't supposed to fall in a mud puddle before picture time.

Oh dear.

A Mother's Love

Meg has really become a good mom. I've given her a lot of advice through the years. Look at her now.

Xander and Xavier certainly do like playing on their mom!

Bottle Kids

The human is not happy with us goats. She says she doesn't have the time to feed bottle kids before she's done teaching school. Well, she doesn't have much choice.

Pebbles's little girl, Cinnamon, can't compete with her triplet brothers. She's been on the bottle since about two days old. Pebbles and Cinnamon appreciate it.

Litha can't feed all three of her babies. Chuck and Oscar both take a bottle and nurse their mom.

Stormy can't keep up with her triplets. Haley and Harley still nurse their mom, but they also take a bottle.

She was making bottles for five kids. Now, Annie is on the human's naughty list. She refuses to take care of her boy, Fionn. I can't say that I don't blame her. I don't think I could ever not take care of my kids. Some nannies. The human thinks The Goat Borrower, Mimi, needs to take care of the Giant Fionn!

He was getting thin, but she filled him up with milk. Now she keeps bugging Minnie. She says, "Minnie, if you want to do that meditation thing and bring yourself into milk again, I'd be happy to milk you."

This is linked to Farm Friend Friday.

Kids at Play

We've had seventeen kids born since last Wednesday. They are starting to come outside and meet each other and play! Most of the kids have names now, too, so I thought I'd let you see them all.

Here's Litha and her triplet boys: Felix, Chuck, and Oscar.

Look! It's a push-me-pull-me. Just kidding! It's Kizzy's twins.

Here they are where you can see the cute ends too. Kizzy, Bonnie sideways, and Blaze facing forward.

As you can see, mineral blocks are a lot of fun for kids. Pebbles's triplets: Rocky, Cinnamon and Bullwinkle.

Here's Meg and her twin boys that were born yesterday. They are Xavier and Xander (brown).

Not even a full day old, and they are already playing!

Xavier seems to be quite photogenic, just like his mom.

It seems that blogging has had its influence on the names around here, even beyond the names starting with the letter X for Alphabe-Thursday. Sallie's girl is named Raven Sharon Osboer. The Sharon comes from Sharon at Life with Jack n Jill.

Here's Annie and her boys. They are Fowler (dark-colored) and Fionn (light-colored)

Mimi, The Goat Borrower, suggested the name for Fionn MacCumhaill Osboer. Here you go, Mimi! This picture is just for you.

Pam has twin girls. The solid white one is Scout, and the brown and white one is Tayet.

I suggested Tayet for the young lady at In a Goat's Shoes. She's loves soccer, but even better--she loves goats! Isn't our Tayet cute?

Penny's kids don't get out as much because their mom wants to go out to pasture and forgets to come back to feed them. That means the human tends to shut them in. They are also the only two without names. What do you think these two boys should be named?

This is being linked to Verde Farm's Farm Friend Friday.

Kids Out of Control

Kizzy's girls are certainly keeping her on her hooves.

Blaze decided to venture out of their home. Look at Kizzy's mouth. We get to listen to her maaing to her kids all the time.

Of course, I wouldn't want my kid out trying to follow a goose either.

Later, Kizzy was maaing so loudly she got the human's attention. The human was hollering, "Kizzy, are you stuck? Is something killing you?" because she was so loud and insistent in her yelling.

See what the human found when she rounded the corner. "Please help me. My kids. I want my kids."

Her kids were sleeping so nice and sweet in their warm little nook. Kizzy just wanted them back in the lean-to.

Oh, Bonnie and Blaze are certainly going to keep that Kizzy on her hooves.

KID UPDATE

Litha's triplet bucks

Sallie's doe

Annie's twin boys

Penny's twin boys