Ramblin Rose and Her Two Buds

Somewhere between 6:30 and 7:00 a.m. on Saturday Ramblin Rose kidded. She had two beautiful bucklings.

Here is one of them:

What happened is, Michael told the boys they needed to take the first two hour shifts in the barn on Friday night/Saturday morning. Michael and Nicholas went out first and by 1:45 a.m. they left because the goats were making so much racket they couldn’t sleep. Michael checked on them every couple of hours.

I woke up (from a nice night’s sleep) on Saturday and thought Michael was still out in the barn because he wasn’t in bed. Only after I got dressed and left the bedroom did I notice he was sleeping on the sofa.

I tip-toed out of the house to go do the morning chores. When I got to Rose’s stall there she is with two kids. One was still pretty wet and the other was drying off under the heat lamp. I dried the one off and got rid of the afterbirth.

The bucks are so cute and Rose is an amazing mom. I made sure each nursed.

I didn’t stay long in the pen with them and really didn’t get an alone shot of the other buck. Both are mostly black (their dad is Jasper). Both babies have Rose’s color of ears, white speckled ears. One buck is almost all black and the other is black and white. You can just see a little of the second one in the back. Notice the cute little drooping ear on the one in the front?

They are healthy. The one in the back weighed in at four pounds and the one in the front was a whopping five pounds two ounces.

We still have two more goats to kid sometime this week. Here are the brothers together.

Well,  I must tell you, we have an unplanned pregnancy. Jessie, Brown Sugar and Woody’s girl, is pregnant! Yup, we didn’t plan this. We have no idea who the dad is and when she got pregnant. That will make a total of five goats kidding this year. When she kids we will do a paternity test to figure out which buck is the baby daddy.

Life on the farm is the best birds and bees class ever!

Have a great Sunday,
Karen