New Kids 09

at home in

Kentucky USA~

Hello again!

from

in Kentucky...

Meet the New Kids born 2009

We thought you would likesome pics of our new babies born this Spring ..

...plus other additions to our farm

Moses is the white male,

Phoebe is the black female.

Their parents are

Maisie and Milkshake

MOSES

PHOEBE

Now we would like to introduce the newest addition to our farm...Shrek the Miniature Donkey. He's a Sicilian mini, about hip high at the back, a gelded jack - after this morning.

These pictures were taken the morning after his visit to the vet and ride home. This is a tough little dude - it took almost three times the recommended dose of tranquilizer to get him to lie down for castration surgery. And it still took four people to hold him still for the procedure (but to be fair, Charles says it would take at least that many people to hold him down for a similar surgery).

After a couple of weeks of healing and normal quarantine, Shrek will join the female goats and sheep in the field as their guard and companion.

Our farm keeps getting funnier! Heather

SHREK !!!

SHREK

is a miniature donkey

AND HERE

HE IS AGAIN

Next photos are our first good lambs -

mother is Cathy Gale, a Khatadin, and father is Cousin It, a Jacob.

The mostly black panda-faced lamb is a girl (actually she looks kind of like a Holstein calf). And the white with black collar and spots is a boy. Born between 11 and 11:30 6th March 2009 , pictures taken about 12:15.

Every sheep is doing well.

My brown nanny goat, Eliza, and my bottle lamb, Emma Piel, are both expected to deliver their pregnancies within two weeks.

Then I just have one more ewe that I think is pregnant.

We will keep you posted!

CATHY GALE -

PROUD MUM !

Emma Piel, our little bottle lamb, became a mother this morning, surprising us all. I wasn't expecting them for a couple of days, yet.

Both are boys.

The two lambs born last week have now been moved to the pasture with everyone else. Still one ewe and one nanny goat to deliver this spring.

We had our final lamb of the year born yesterday evening. Tweed (the mom) came to us after her only lamb last spring died soon after birth. We weren't even sure she was pregnant because of her long wool and overanxious personality. She had one ewe lamb - just beautiful.

Then we picked up two goat bucklings from Bleugrass Chevre producer Susan Miller near Lexington, KY. I offered to swap one of my bucklings for one of hers to widen our herd genetics, but she didn't want any more males. Instead she offered to give me one!

After we loaded the first one into the car, she insisted that we take a second. Mousse (brown ears) and Tagalong (white ears) are unrelated, so now we have three layers of herd genetics, making almost endless breeding possibilities.

We still have one goat who is pregnant, but she looks like she's about to pop!

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