The Blessing of a Snow Storm


     What a pleasant surprise to have when coming home. Meet Cleo and Clover my newest additions to my herd. What a time to be born in the middle of a snowstorm. So they must've been born sometime today which means the temperature was around 20°. I am so glad that they survived because they were not born inside the goat hut. 

    Mama and babies are both doing great. I thought she had a few more weeks until she would give birth, but nature waits for nothing. So this has me questioning whether or not I had marked things on the calendar correctly. Which means, will Honey have her baby in the next few weeks or will it be now? She too is heavy with milk, so I guess I need to make sure she's trapped in the barn for the majority of her time so her babies will not be exposed to the elements.

    All of my toes were exposed to Junior at the same time, but they are not birthing within the same few weeks. Faith, my most honorary goat has not even showed signs of her milk sack starting to fill. She is pregnant and has quite a large belly. Usually her milk sack is well filled before she kids. So I guess I will have even more babies in the weeks to come. Hopefully the weather will not be as extreme as it is now, and I will not have to worry as much about them getting too cold. Even inside a shelter, it gets cold.  So I waste even more hay, putting it on top of layered shavings. The money is worth it, though, because my fur babies mean the world to me. I'm sure Taylor will absolutely love these new additions. I cannot wait to be able to take her down and show her the new babies.  

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