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Fancy had her babies last night, two boys. Sophie has named the blacker one Mike. It was all very exciting, a middle of the night waking. Fancy did great, and kidded with no problems. Unfortunately, however, she seems to have no clue what this whole thing is about. She’s ignoring the kids and barely tolerating them nursing for a few seconds at a time. Poor little things, I feel sad every time she pushes them away. So it looks like we’ll be bottle feeding these guys. Here is less than 24 hour old goat baby Mike. You can see a little of the other one, too. (Name coming soon, I’m sure.)
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- MAYA LASSITER is a writer of fantasy novels, an unschooling mom, a yogini, a former goat keeper, a yurt dweller, and an all-around cool person. Except when she's a boring ninny. Hopefully she won't post on those days.
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- MAYA LASSITER is a writer of fantasy novels, an unschooling mom, a yogini, a goat keeper, a yurt dweller, and an all-around cool person. Except when she's a boring ninny. Hopefully she won't post on those days.
I used to work at a zoo, and I was in charge of the goats. (Yeah, I know, other zookeeps got Lions and Bears, but hey, as we all know, the common farm animals are where the real prestige is) Anyway, I discovered during my time at the petting zoo that goat behavior was impacted by coat color genetics. I discovered this by accident when dividing the goats into two groups– the group that could be played with by little children, and the group that only older kids could play with, because those goats could occasionally be a bit aggresive.
Turns out, the goats with white spots were more gentle. Your goats are beautiful! And spotty!
That’s interesting. I wonder if all your white spotted goats came from the same white, spotted, gentle dam? (Or sire, of course.) Our girls are very gentle also, such sweeties.