New life in the New Year

We've been waiting a long time for new kids. If you'd asked me, I would have said for sure two would birth in August. Wrong. But today I heard a new sound from the goats -- that little voice of a youngster!

Our youngest Nigerian Dwarf doe had a little lookalike doeling.

I checked in throughout the day and evening to see that her momma was tending to her properly. I'm less than fully confident with this doe as her mother was a bottle baby, and did not pass along the diligent mothering qualities usually evident in this breed. So far so good.






This is her, on the left, with her mother, in the summer months.



Now we're on watch for the other does to kid. Two of them look mighty ready!