Tuesday Traveling and goat news

One of the cinemas in C/S has 75 cent movies on Tuesdays so off we went. Magie and Glen took their three girls and my two boys. Melissa and I took James to lunch and then to the dollar store. Did you know that you can buy the same brand name bologna and hot dogs at the dollar store as you do at a big grocery store.
Sadly, I forgot the school supply list.
The boys saw "How to train your dragon." They said it was good.
Tomorrow I'm taking Melissa to her OB/GYN. We will be starting the once a week checkups now. What's a little weird is it's the same doctor that delivered Andy (at least the same clinic since Andy was an emergency c-section on a Sunday and Dr. Lasley wasn't on-call, so Dr. Richards delivered Andy)
I'm thinking on Thursday we may go to Manitou, take James to see his dad and my boys can play at the arcade. Friday is pantry day and Saturday we take Jester to the Fowler auction.
Lily, the evil goat, is actually gone. She left last week. Heartlee went to the farm of our school cook (as a pet not food), Joker (one of Lily's kids) was sold yesterday and Baby went back to Magie's. Simon has returned home. There just really isn't enough does around that he's not related to that we can truly justify not wethering him. So that deed is done. So now we have our herd. Jet and Luna (Sage's daughters of three years ago. Jem who is Jet's daughter this year. Larry (wether) and Lorilei who are Luna's kids of this year. We also have Sasha and Simon who are Sage's kids of this year. We finally did put Sage down. Magie found a lump on Sage's backbone where it was growing over a break. Which is why I won't have horned goats here ever again.
Melissa is making sausage, cheese and egg biscuit sandwiches tonight for supper. Peter has a HOA meeting tonight and he has to vote. Did you vote?

And two more equals thirteen

It finally happened. I came home from volunteering at the school today to find that Luna had two babies. Last year she had one baby, dropped him in the middle of the field and fled. This year she had Lora and Larry in the barn, cleaned and fed by the time I found them. She was laying next to them. I moved them into the kid room.
So now we have 13 goats.
1. Sage who is the mother of Luna and Jet and this years Simon and Sasha
2. Lily who is the mother of Jester and Joker
3. Jet (see Sage) who is the mother of Jem.
4. Luna (see Sage) who is the mother of Lora and Larry
5. Little orphan babies Baby and Heartlee.
That's 13 goats. I shouldn't have a weed problem this year. Going to have to save some money to buy hay this winter.
And we have the baby chickens, baby ducks waiting to be hatched in the shed under their mother, baby turkeys coming on the 26th and maybe a baby llama coming the end of summer. Just babies everywhere.

A tiny Surprise

Yesterday after picking up the boys at the bus stop, I went out to do the evening chores. I was carrying some hay out to Sage who has actually stood up. There was this black and white thing laying on the ground that I at first thought was either Socks or Cosmo, the cats. But no, it was Jet's baby girl. We (and that means Magie) didn't think Jet was pregnant. Last year Jet had a baby boy that she ran from, didn't take care of at all. Jem was cleaned and Jet is letting her nurse. Jet, Jem and Grandma Sage are all in the nursery. If Luna has her baby I'll have to move Sage out. Jem is tiny tho, she had a little trouble finding the milk but she soon learned where to go. Jem is Sage's first granddaughter. Jet and Luna both had boys last year, their firsts. Sage's other kids didn't live long enough or we don't know what happened after they sold.
Lily's two boys, Jester and Joker, are doing well. They were running around out in the goat yard yesterday. Tomorrow they are going to school for show and tell for both Andy and Alex. I'm also going to Simla to pick up trees from Soil Conservation tomorrow. And working at the church pantry.
I did pick up a variety of chicks yesterday, 15 of the little peepers. I need to order some Russian Orloffs in late April and then turkeys, Royal Palms to keep and Bronzes to cook, in May.

More Babies

So it is Easter Sunday and Lily, our token Boer, had two baby boys this morning. One is the common Boer coloring and the other has the white body but with golden head and legs.
I moved Sage out of the kid room and put Lily in with her boys.
We have discussed putting Sage down since she still doesn't get up but over the years we have had blind horses, blind goose, crippled ducks and another goat who couldn't walk either. So it wouldn't be right to put Sage down just because she can't walk and she could get better eventually. Just have to make a few adjustments but she's worth it.

Babies have finally ARRIVED

Yesterday, Sage my beautiful black Nubian doe, gave birth to triplets. Sadly, the first one was a breach and he didn't make it. But Simon (male) and Sasha (female) are doing quite well. Sage isn't doing so well tho. She is 10 years old, at least, and has hurt her back. She hasn't walked for two weeks, being on bedrest. But with triplets she has earned it. This is the last year we will be breeding goats. I originally started with goats because my youngest son, Alex, was lactose intolerant. He's since out grown the allergy and I don't milk anymore. But we keep the goats around for weed control. Simon and Sasha are at my best friend Magie's house. She has quite the touch for animals and children. I only hope that I can get them back. I also have Jet and Luna, Sage's two year old daughters. Luna is pregnant. We don't think that Jet is. Also in the herd is Lily. She's a boer. Also pregnant by the same buck as Sage and Luna so we will have quite the extended family out in the barn. The buck, Caleb, has since been sold. He was getting to aggressive. So that's the story on the goats.