Every year for the past several years, we have the traditional New Year's meal of black-eyed peas, greens, ribs and kraut, etc. This year we invited Mom & Dad to come over and share our New Year's dinner. The kids got a Wii for a late Christmas present, and they wanted to get Grandpa & Grandma in on the fun. We made a Mii for each of them and they played bowling and baseball. Bowling is my personal favorite so far. It's just my speed. S-L-O-W!!!
Shortly after Harold and the boys finished eating, they headed out to feed the animals and milk Flip, whose babies both died. Cody came running back to the house announcing that Lily (our youngest doe) had had her baby. But the baby wasn't looking so good. He was down and cold, so Harold brought him in to me to feed and warm up. [See, our little house has served even as a goat nursery!]
After a bottle of hs momma's colostrum (Harold milked Lily so the kid could have momma's milk) and just a couple of hours under the warming light, "Baby New Year" looked SO much better. Harold has taken him back out to be with his momma. Hopefully now that he's warmed up he'll do fine out in the warm shelter where the other kids and Stripe are staying. So, the current count is 2 baby doe kids and now a buck kid. We are also learning lots about milking Flip. I'm looking forward to using that milk for all kinds of fun things! Isn't this an adorable little guy?! Looks like he's smiling, I think. I know he made me smile! :)
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Adorable! Looks like he is smiling!
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