All of our 2013 kids are currently sale pending. I expect deposits on them this week. I'm always so happy when I feel they're all getting great homes where they'll be loved and appreciated. I feel sure that's the case with the ladies who will soon be bringing them home. :) I'll try to continue posting information about Nigerian dwarf dairy goats, and whats happening here at North Forest Farm.
If you're interested in future kids from our farm, keep checking back. There's a SMALL chance I'll be breeding a couple of yearlings next month for September kids. I'm still waiting on one of them to reach 40 lbs., which is where I personally feel comfortable breeding them.
If I don't breed them this spring, I"ll be breeding four does for spring 2014 kids.
For now, though, we're just going to sit back and enjoy playing with these kids until they're weaned in May. :) And milking! Of course, milking. I can't forget that. Of course, we had one tragedy in the loss of Cupcake, and Panzy's hard kidding has caused her to have significantly less milk than she would have. I'm not sure that it will pick up again, but she does have a fat and happy doeling who is growing fast, so I guess she has enough milk. Starlight, however, appears to be trying to single
handedly udderly? make up for it. She is nursing her triplets, and yet still always appears to have a ton of milk in her udder. Tomorrow I plan to attempt to milk her in the morning without separating her from her kids. Not sure how much milk she'll let down for us that way, but I'm going to give it a try. When the triplets are three weeks or a month old, I'll be separating the kids at night and milking the does in the morning. I'll try to get some udder pics at that point, starting with only 8 hours of separation.
