Kids at school...

...the four legged variety. My kids(the 2 legged kind) have been bugging me since before our goat kids were born about a "show & tell" with the baby goats, and I finally did the classroom visits today.

The kindergarteners laughed boisterously when our little buckling tinkled and left berries, there's not much funnier to a 5 year old than bodily functions.

The fourth and fifth graders were a little more mature, and we did their visit on a fenced lawn, which is preferable to the classroom. My daughter, Maggie, is having the kids in her class vote to name her doe's kids, a buck and a doe.

The buck is going as a wether to our local water company as brush control, they have successfully used goats for the last several years and they seem to keep people out too, they have a wether who was wethered late in life with a nice set of horns and a sizeable beard who lost his companion last sping and they are taking two of our wethers as companions. They say ever since they got him the graffiti has stopped, personally I don't find goats intimidating, but the graffiti artists must!

The doeling will be ther first she is keeping out of her doe, so she is excited about her.

The three kids I brought to school also made the rounds at my work and daycare, big hits all around.

Spring finally sprung

The weather seems to at last be holding, its supposed to be 90 degrees today, I wore a skirt with high hopes, even if it meant my morning feeding of the goats/chickens/dogs was a bit precarious. We are done with our first round of kiddings. 5 girls, five boys, it seems fair. The next round begins in June/July but I only have two does kidding, and both are first fresheners. Next on the goat agenda is shows, with my first show coming up in less than two weeks, then they come fast and furious thru June. I still have lots of work to do on the doe and buck pens, adding proper gates, finishing feeders, adding mineral feeders, etc.

Our new buck, Banker, its fitting in quite well, I can't wait to use him, but thats on the back burner until the spring kids are all homed. Right now we only have 2 wethers without final destinated set, so I'm not too worried. This is only the second season I have disbudded here, and my husband was kind enough to do the actual burning while I held the kids, last year I only did a few kids. If I can just get tattooing down I'll be in business, I'm not sure which is worse tattooing or disbudding.

I spent the weekend "spring cleaning" and am rather sore, and not quite victorious, but made some respectable headway. I am sore and have ten bins of future goodwill items moving on, half of which went directly to children in the neighborhood.

I'm trying to make our home, home again after dressing it to put on the market, and deciding not to sell, I have a few walls started with their new paint color, as white walls are making me feel a bit like I'm in an assylum.

The garden is started, 8 kinds of tomatos, sunflowers, roses, a strawberry free peach tree, lots of nasturtium, sweet peas and herbs too, a couple strawberry plants, you get the gist.