doesn’t she look like a cricket……..
Around 11:00 yesterday I went out to feed a lamb that wasn’t taking to it’s mothers enormous teats (they’re bigger than the dairy goat’s) and as I was feeding the lamb I happened to look over at Rory and see a little black pile she was licking. I was so excited I wanted to run and see it, but the little lamb was only half way done with it’s bottle……… I was jumping up and down telling the little lamb to hurry! As soon as the little lamb finished, I ran over to the little goat checking to make sure it was okay and to see whether it was a girl or boy and as soon as I saw it was a girl I got even more excited.
The birth seemed to go just fine with a nice healthy baby, and a good mama pawing at her to get up which she did shortly. I had previously decided that I wanted a bottle fed baby, so as soon as she was up I whipped out the bottle. I tried for hours to get her to take it……….she refused. So I decided I’d let her try her mom, she took to that like that was what she was meant to do and nobody was going to make her do any different. Mama and baby are happily in the barn along with almost the whole flock of sheep.
She’s cute as can be!
absolutely perfect – and bottle feeding is nice to make ’em bond to you but Nubies seem to really prefer that natural thing – mine surely do. Thanks for sharing – I DO miss my kids!
Jiminy! That’s quite a Cricket!
Congratulations.
She does look like a cricket. She’s so cute! Sounds like you’ve been pretty busy.
She is precious..you will probably be keeping her! Sometimes they are fixated on their Mothers..see what happens. She should have that first milk from her Mom anyway..it is really good stuff that she needs to get a really good start!