Recent Additions

Since I last posted, we had another doe kid.  Isabella gave us twin bucklings, one sundgau and the other chamoise.   Isabella was a great mother and the bucklings were very nice, but we didn't need 2 more bucks.  The boys have gone to their new home as bottle babies.  Isabella cried for a few days but is okay now.  She is giving us close to a gallon of milk a day already!  Since taking the above photo, I have shaved her udder and fixed the horrid job I did on her tail.  Learning to shave a goat has been interesting!  :)  Isabella is the sweetest doe in our barn and has taken to the milkstand very well.  I am super pleased with her!  I can't thank Tracy enough for all the beautiful animals she entrusted to us!

We also have another addition to the herd.  His name is Kevin's Finbar.  We call him Finny.  Kevin gave me this description of his naming:  Finbar means "Fair Haired" and has been popular since the sixth century when St. Finbar came to an area of Cork that was being tormented by a serpent.  The people begged him to do something to help them.  One night he went to where the serpent was sleeping and sprinkled it with holy water.  The angry serpent tore and devoured the land until she slithered into the sea at Cork Harbor.  The track she left behind filled with water and became the River Lee and that's why St. Finbar is the patron saint of Cork.  It is said that the sun didn't set for two weeks after Finbar's death. 

The little fella that has such huge shoes to fill would be the chamoise buckling sporting the orange collar and trying to give Shiphrah a kiss.  :) We will try him out on either Opal or Adelaide this year (and the other will be bred to Handel) and look forward to seeing what he does and how he blends with our herd.  He has spectacular genetics behind him and we're ever so thankful to Kevin Kinney for letting us have him!