Goats Anyone?

Today we went to visit our goats.  Yes, goats.  Cocoberry, our goat, is about to give birth.  Look at her here, large as a house, looking in the distance.  You can't hear it in the picture, but she is groaning, she is so big.  According to Katie, our neighbor who is entrusting us with these goats, Cocoberry is larger than she was when she gave birth to quadruplets last time.  So we are thinking quintuplets at least or maybe even sextuplets.  Coco will give birth to her kids here at Katie's, then, after the kids are weaned, at about 2 to 3 months, she will come home with us where we will continue milking her for out own milk and cheese supply.  

In this picture you can see the other goat that is going home with us: Coconut.  She is in the background, black and white, watching these other kids playing.  Coconut is daughter to Cocoberry and is due at about the same time.  She is a first freshener, which means that this is the first time she is giving birth and the first time that she will be milked.  So we get one experienced goat and one newbie goat, possibly more if it were up to Katie.  I feel that 2 for starters will be plenty, she sees that she will be milking 16 goats by the time they have all given birth, and wants us to take more.  

In the foreground are Gleam and Glimmer, Katie's first kids for the season, they are Bling's daughters, twin doelings.  Today we got to play with them and I even gave Glimmer her bottle.  Watching kids play is what we call "Livestock TV," you could watch them all day long.  

Our friend Kat Gritt, our photographer, is going to submit some of these pictures to Cute Overload.  I am posting them to make your head 'splode, and to keep you updated on our farm adventures.