They Are Here

Our new herd mates have arrived. And how sweet are they. Although unexpectedly BIG and SMALL. Let me start with Chip and Dale. OMG I swear they are half horse half goat, but so sweet. They are Pack Goats and apparently I didn't know the size of pack goats.

This is Charlie this face says "Mom What the Hell?"

This is Chip, he is triple the size of Charlie.

This is Dale, he is such a love bug. Chip and Dale are twins and are about 9 years old.

Then the babies. 6 week old babies. How sweet are they. I am keeping them in the first fenced in area before mixing them with the other goats. We have about 6 weeks of bottle feeding ahead of us. Which the boys enjoyed doing tonight. They will also be staying in our wash room at nights for a bit as we all get use to each other and to keep them really sweet goats.

Here they are enjoying their own hay. They are also twin weathers. Yep four boys today. So our two girls are really starting to feel outnumbered.

This is Tyrone, but we may re-name him? I don't think Tyrone fits him?

This is Ed. I like the name Ed for him.

So all this happened well Cole was napping, he work up and looked outside and called Chip and Dale horses. He is not so sure about the babies, but he did give them a BIG ole kiss on the lips (so wish I had a photo of that one.) Ethan and Tucker just love all our new goats. Charlie is adjusting and spent the day bossing them around. He would kick them out of the hey bin. Chip and Dale would be pruning our tree and he would go over there and tell them "enough" Charlie has kicked them out of pens. Leo has adapted well as Chip or Dale would bring down a branch for Leo to nibble on. And our little tiny Mighty Max tried once to show them who was boss, well let's just say that didn't last long.

Well onto the making of the barn, we have it all drawn out now to get it up this spring and summer so look for that to come. We want a hay feeder big enough for a whole bale of hay. A place for all of them to sleep if they wish to. A place for the water so it won't freeze in the winter.