New Additions

Well, we didn't have to keep wondering for long...



The little girl looks like a typical Boer, just like her daddy. The boy is pure white. He is dirty in the picture. I was really hoping we would get some spotted kids because their mom has some, but no, we are sticking with the basics.


When we went out for morning chores Big Momma wasn't anywhere to be found. You didn't hear Frosty and Lil Bit complaining! This was the first quiet meal they have had since Big Momma came here. She is VERY bossy. So we noticed right away things were way to calm to be normal. We got everyone fed and went to look for Big Momma. Niko found her in the woods on the paintball course. The twins were fairly new, they were still a little wet and Big Momma was still delivering the placenta. The twins were up and walking and I was able to help them nurse for the first time. After she delivered most of the placenta I decided we should try to move her and the babies to the barn. Oh Boy. We picked the babies up and started carrying them to the barn. It's funny about goats, when you pick the kids up it is like they turn invisible to their mothers. Big Momma freaked out. I've never seen something with that big of an udder run so fast. I was afraid she was going to rupture her udder it was swinging around so wildly. She ran past us into the barnyard where she was ambushed by every animal we have wanting to know what the excitement was about. We put the babies in a kidding pen hoping Big Momma would follow, but I think she got confused by the other million or so animals following us and she ran off into the woods again. Great. By now Lala has figured out we have new babies, her favorite. She makes her rounds making sure everyone knows she is in control now and barks to let everyone else know they better behave. Now Big Momma is back in the barnyard hollering for her babies and we are trying to get the babies to holler too, but now they are quiet, so we have to make baby noises. Momma didn't buy it, but finally one of them hollers, she finds them and we get them all in the pen. After physically removing Lala everyone is taken care of.


After I snipped belly buttons and put iodine on feet (and spilled half the iodine bottle down the front of myself) and all that good stuff, I locked the new family in for some quiet time. Lala gave me the most pitiful look. Poor baby wants in with them so bad. It's funny how proud I can be of a dog doing what she is supposed to do without any intervention from me. She is such a good girl. (Her kids will be good guards too. Tell your friends!)