Chicken Issues

The human is still milking us with the birds.  Cinnamon seems to be having a bit of a problem with those featherbrained chickens.

She even had one land on her head the other night!  She's a bit nervous now.

Haley is having some chicken problems too.

Least they don't have vultures after them!

Linking to Farmgirl Friday.

Vultures in Action

So, when I come up from pasture in the evening, I head straight for the bird pen so I can get milked.  I have to say, if I'm not fast, that Haley gets there before me.  She obviously does not understand the order.

When I get in there and the human starts milking, that's when the vultures show up.

It's really a bit ridiculous.  The human needs to do something about this.

Pathetic Begging

The human says that Cinnamon and Haley are pathetic and hopeless.

They'll never figure out that she milks on a schedule~morning and evening.

These two demand to be milked whenever they see the human.  So sad...

What the Human Doesn't Know

Sometimes I ask the human to "recreate" things for me so I can blog about them.

Tonight I asked to "recreate" our milking.  She had us in the chicken building, and those stinking hens were almost hanging upside down in my bucket of sweet feed to get some.

We came back out with the camera, and she let me eat.  Not a hen came around!

They just sat on their roosts wishing they had some of my delicious sweet feed!

Little did the human know, I had already threatened those hens with skewering them on my horns if they stuck their faces in my feed bucket again.

I did get an extra feeding though!

Linking to Farmgirl Friday.

Make a Guess

Can you guess why Cinnamon and Haley are hanging out by the stanchion?

They are the newest milking does.  Of course, I'm still the reigning milking doe!

Retirement

Does this look like retirement?

After raising a kid, being sick and recovering, I am now being milked again.

You'd think that human could at least milk me in a timely manner

 or at least get me computer access to do a blog post in a timely manner.

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.

Who's the Nanny?

Around here, the human likes to have goat milk for bottle kids and yogurt and cheese. My sister Millie and I have been the two nannies the human could count on. Look at my udder--it is a highly efficient milk-making machine.

But she retired me. I had my babies last summer, she milked me into the fall, and then I dried up and retired.

All these other young girls think they are too delicate to be milked or just don't have the high quality milking genes of Millie and me.

I kept begging the human to let me be her milking nanny because I was born to milk. It's my chosen mission in life. She just kept telling me, "But Minnie, you're not lactating."

She wants lactating. I'll show her lactating. Through daily meditation and visualizations, I managed to achieve my goal.

How's that? I challenge any other retired milking nanny out there to do better!

Udderly Ridiculous

Do you remember these two?

They are Flower and Bud, Mabel's two kids. The human just bought milk replacer for them. Is that not just udderly ridiculous with all the nannies we have here. Obviously I have to have my milk to feed my babies (and any friend they drag home). Minnie is standing in line to be milked. The human just tells her, "You're not even lactating. I can't milk you."

She is milking Dolly, but she's just one little goat. Does it look like she can keep up with those two growing kids? I don't think so.

Pam is super stressed from being weaned and moved. She's drying up. Meg has allergies and the human told her to work on building her own strength up instead of making milk. I do think Meg could handle it if she weren't trying to breathe through the allergies.

Pebbles still has her daughters with her, so she'd never get any milk from her. That leaves Lily. Don't you think Lily would be the perfect milking nanny? Look at that full udder. Look at those perfectly milkable teats.

Well, she won't have anything to do with it. I don't get it. All you have to do is stand there and eat corn. No other goats around to mess with you. Just stand there and let the human milk. When she's done, your udder feels better. How ridiculous that she's buying milk replacer.