Babies Keep Coming

New little gray doeling.

She sure is hungry.

Ruby checking her out.

My husband had a shock this morning. We were expecting twins from Sugar, our cream colored angora goat. She is huge and looks to pop any day. She is the mother of Pansy and Petunia born last winter at around this time. Surprise, surprise, her daughter Pansy gave birth to a little gray doeling and she is only a year old. Never had that happen before. Our goats have always been 2 years old before they got bred. Anyway, Pansy wants nothing to do with this loud, robust little creature and she runs to her Mom Sugar crying. Ruby took pity on the new baby and let her nurse from her. That was a first for another Mom to foster some other goat's baby. She had lots of milk so maybe it is a way to make her feel less full. The new baby also took a bottle of Ruby's milk so maybe she is bonding with her. I put sweatshirt sleeves on them as little coats so they can keep warm. My husband pointed out that they are color coordinated to the goats that they are on. Certainly didn't do that on purpose, when I was woken up from a dead sleep by a screaming, wet goat kid and a panic stricken husband. Just trying to get them dry and warm. Now we are watching Petunia, Pansy's twin sister, to see if she will have something. They are so woolie, it is very hard to tell if they are bred and forget about trying to catch them in the snow. I think we would both have heart attacks trying to do that.