Day: March 28, 2017

Can you see the snow? NO … it is disappearing!

Foster Nannie #2

Oz is also a part of the babysitting effort

Oz has been wanting a cuddle buddy for ages!

Beaker grazing the leaf clutter

Miss Charlie soaking in the sunshine

Even after yesterday afternoon’s rainy fiasco the Guineas found their own way out into the run this afternoon.

Ede reinforcing the top half of the Dutch Door with heavier duty wire mesh.

Bella having a conversation with the Guineas.

Oz checks out Little Grey

Not yet happy with the bottle idea

Totally zonked after having some milk and warming up!

Always love picking up new skills! We’re adding ‘Foster Nanny’ to our list. The littlest quadruplet was having a real struggle making it in the barn with his siblings and another doe and her twins. He was shivering and holding up a sore leg when we came upon him this morning. I was helping with the 5:30 am shift. By the time 7:00 rolled around we realized he might need an intervention. At the noon check in there he was – his little wobbly self shivering and off in a corner on his own. So we scooped him up and he has come home with me for some TLC. Each day when I go down the road to the farm he’ll come with me and hang out with his mom and siblings – hopefully getting some of her milk too. It will keep him connected to goat behaviour and give him a goat family to return to when he gets his strength and legs under him again. Then in-between we’ll train him to bottle feed and let him grow up some with Oz as a buddy. He sure will be a sweet little dwarf ram having such socialization so young. Every day is a new adventure around here!