My New Little Ones......

My new little bundles will get to come home soon.

They were born around the 19th or so and are being bottle fed and switched off of goat milk so that I can take them soon. Two little sisters out of triplets. :) 

Their mother is Boer x Nubian cross and their father is Boer x Alpine cross.

 You can see the Nubian in the first baby and Alpine in the second baby. Both are adorable. :)

Last house fell through so the move is pushed back but still on the hunt and it will be soon.

Yeah!!!! We may have a house.......

I am excited. We may have a house finally. And it may be the one I wanted from the beginning. :)

I do not want to go overboard as it is not ours just yet and until it has our name on it I do not want to jinx it...lol ..... But I will be thrilled if we get it.

It is a stick built not a manufactured home which means I can improve upon it and the value will go up. :)

It has plenty of rooms, space, and roughly 3 1/2 acres for the goats, chickens, dogs, and any other animal we want to have on it. It is in the country setting but yet only a mile from a small town where my youngest could even ride his bike to school if he wanted. :)

Moving Whoas.....

You do not realize how much stuff you have until you have to move and go through it all. Feels like I am going to be going through it all for years ... lol

My chickens will be moving to their new home soon and then I will not have any until the baby goats arrive. The trade off for my two is getting more clear now and I will get whatever Nanny drops (as long as they are alive and good health) and one of her doe babies from her goats. This was fine as it will be easier to transport babies and since Nanny is now hers and I wanted her baby(s) if there was a boy, she had no problem with it since she has her buck and her goats are bigger. She does not really want smaller goats. :)

No matter what they needed a home and I know they went to the right person. She will take great care of my girls. :)

My two girls are gone....

They came to pick them up today around 12:30pm. It did not take more then 10 minutes after they left before I was fighting back the tears. It has been off and on since. But I know I did the right thing. I am doing a trade with this lady my two for two of her babies who are bottle fed. The babies will be easier to transport then the to adults, one of which is still pregnant and would be kidding around or just before the move and I do not want them getting hurt. Michigan to Colorado is a fairly long haul and there will not be much room between the kids, our stuff, and the dogs. But babies I can have ride in the cab with me as they will be little.

Just have to get through the initial detachment, they were my babies. :(

But like I said, I know I did the right thing. :)
I did what was best for them, not what was best for me. :)
But I will miss them.

Goats May Have a Home.....

Yeah....my goats might have a new home to go to and soon. :)
Nanny has not had her baby(s) yet, she may not for another week or two even as she is not filling with milk yet.
I am so happy. I was worried that we may not find them one.
I was not asking for much to help them find one, and I only asked so that the money could go toward getting one after the move.
I am not concerned with the money though, as I would give them away if I trusted the person that they went to. This is my biggest concern, to know they were going to be well cared for.


We shall see...cross your fingers. :)

My two goats...

I have two goats that I am looking to find a home for (ay have found, but unsure, they are getting back to me).
The mom is Nanny a Togenburg X Fainter mix and her daughter (from first kidding, had only one) Lil'Missy a Togenburg x Fainter (mother) X Fainter (father was full blooded) mix. She is half the size of her mother who is smaller then a regular Togenburg.
Lil'Missy just gave birth (first kidding, baby didn't make it. But she has been stripped of her plug and colostreum).
Nanny I believe is also pregnant but she does not look big enough to have more then 2, might just be 1 again. She has slack on her ligaments, so she is getting close if she is (I say if because I could be reading it wrong and she has had one before so they may just be slightly stretched from last time.)

They are small enough to be pets but Lil'Missy is shy and will not leave Nanny. Nanny too does not like being separated from Lil'Missy. They can be kept in 1 stall as because they are smaller then the normal size goats and eat roughly a flack a day of hay. I do give them cracked corn as well (only a little during spring, summer, and fall), but during winter they get more to help fatten them for the cold and sustain there weight. Do not look for it to replace your hay or rations, but it can sustain them if your short or sever weather keeps you from getting their normal rations/hay. I try to add other stuff in with it if that happens like, oatmeal oats, wheaties, all bran flakes or buds, what ever I can find to help if sever weather keeps us in for a bit until we can get to town. (I know this may not be the greatest option but they have not had any problems and are find). As they are small they do not need a lot so it helps when situations like that arise.

I wish I could bring them with me, but it would be to hard on them to move. Specially if I am right and Nanny is pregnant and kids any day, that would be a lot for them to deal with in 2 months or so. I just hope that this person that I am waiting on to get back to me, says yes. I trust her and I know her place and kids. They will take good care of them and love watching Nanny give birth. She also lives just down the road from me, so Nanny would not have to be move more then a mile if she is. Cross figures for me that she says yes. :)

Nanny after she had Lil'Missy

Billy (Full Blooded Fainter) Lil'Missy's Dad. Died this winter. Photo taken shortly after Lil'Missy was born.

Lil'Missy several days old. She was unexpected. I walked out to feed the animals and I looked down and said "That's not a chicken!"...lol So I made this shelter out of hay. Mom (Nanny) would not leave Billy. Had them separated but she kept finding was out of her pen to his. So had to build a divider in the pen but until then, a tarp and round half a hay bale worked. :)

Lil'Missy is half her Mom's size now. :)

http://nmi.craigslist.org/grd/4354885716.html

My chickens are spoken for, Yeah.
They will be going to someone who lets them live as long as their life lets them (die from natural causes), she keeps them for the eggs. :)