My Poor Boy

I can't tell you how hard my poor boy has it.  Every time I mention Miranda, there are comments about his name.

Now, we goats don't care if humans think Miranda is a girl's name.  He's my boy, my Miranda.  He knows his name and nobody but humans think it's bad.  Poor kid has humans laughing at him.

Now look what my human has done to my baby!  She attacked him on both ends! She banded him, and his family jewels are drying up and going to fall off.  She taped a metal rod to his horns.  How humiliating!

The Human is Nuts

After having her little boy for a week, the human still hadn't come up with a name for him.

She went through several names, but just didn't like any of them.

Finally, she came to me for advice on what to name him.

I told her, "If I were you, I'd call him my son." After all, I called Simon and Theodore my sons. I called Elmo my son. I called Bam Bam my son. I called Elton my son. I called Beau my son.

She tilted her head and rubbed her hand against her chin and said, "Really..."

She named him Myson.

Really. Some days...

Somebody Has a New Name

The human is mad at somebody, and she's given him a new name.

It's not this guy. He's still nameless, but she's not mad at him.

He just dances for the ladies and looks pretty. Who could be mad about that?

It's not Quackers.

He's old and sweet, and she would never call him anything but Quackers.

It's not Dora the Explorer Rooster, but I'm thinking he'd appreciate a new name.

Who could it be? No not this rooster. He doesn't have a name either, but I bet he's glad this isn't his name.

Naughty Rooster Boy? Of course, that's who it is.

I'm too much of a lady to tell you what she's calling him,

but it's usually preceded by the human yelling and followed by her going after a bandaid.

He's certainly back to being a Naughty Rooster Boy.

Baby Names

Boeris has been here for a few weeks now, and the human finally figured out his last name. It's very important to know his last name because all of his babies will have his last name.

Anyhow, when the human pulled her car in the drive and got out, she heard an awful noise. She hollered, "Is someone stuck?" She was answered with that same horrible yell. She came running in to see who was stuck, injured or letting out death cries. She discovered Boeris yelling his love songs to Litha. That's when she knew his full name was Boeris van de Yell.

That means Bambi Blackboer's baby will have the last name of van de Yell.

Pam will have van de Yell babies too.

What about that~Boeris van de Yell! Now I feel like we've been formally introduced.

Formal Introductions

I can finally give you formal introductions for the kids that were born in the last week. First are Scarlet's triplets. Oreo was born first.

Then came Casey.

Finally, Cookie arrived.

Maggie had her babies the next day. Her little boy, Pooh, was first to arrive.

Then Winnie was born. (Get it--Winnie and Pooh.)

Vixen gave us a beautiful little girl, so she named her baby Isobelle after Isobelle Golightly the Beautiful Goat.

Dolly was the next one to have her kids. Ben was first.

He was followed by Jerry.

We still have seven more to have babies. All those name suggestions have been passed on to our expectant moms.

Kids: Not Slimy but Poopy

Scarlet's and Maggie's kids are nice and dry now. They even got to come outside today. Scarlet had her kids corralled by the chicken pen.

She had Naughty Rooster Boy to keep an eye on them. After all, he seems to think he's the guardian of the kids.

Aren't they cute?

This is where Scarlet put them so she could go out to pasture and browse with us. I think this pan is full.

It might even be overflowing.

Maggie's kids are already trying to play and bounce.

It's all the good colostrum they are drinking.

I tried to tell her to leave them in the barnyard, but she took them to pasture with her.

At least she did stay up near the barnyard. Finally, they settled down to sleep, and she went out with the rest of us.

Don't worry about that awfully icky, sticky colostrum poo. We voted the human gets to clean up because she uses a wash cloth instead of a tongue.

Nobody has been named yet, so feel free to suggest names for me to pass on to Maggie and Scarlet.

Be sure to go visit all the other Farm Friend Friday posts at Deborah Jean's Dandelion House and Verde Farms.

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.