MILK!

It appears that little miss Tirzah is finally coming to terms with being a milk goat. I had to take Carbonado off of her and move him to the buck pen with Intrigue because the two boys were harassing all the girls mercilessly (BUCKS -OYE!!!!). I am bottle feeding Carbonado part time and leaving Hope with mom. This is the amount of milk I got this morning!

Yep folks, that is darn close to a quart and the baby was only off of her for 10 hours. I am pretty pleased with this girl - I cannot wait to milk test her in July but am seriously wishing I'd gone ahead and signed up for 305 day testing (I did not for 2 reasons - my milk tester forgot to re-certify and I thought it was going to be too stressful to milk test when most everyone I was freshening was a FF !) Lessons learned - I will not make that same mistake again next year!

N is for NEWS!

Life is always interesting - and I never know how things are going to turn out but here are 2 pieces of NEWS for N day. One - I got hold of Eva at Langston and she is sending out the CD and the tests for me and one or two buddies to become certified milk testers for ADGA and AGS in this area. WooHOO!!!! The other piece of news is that Shihara (Nizhoni's BB Shihara's Mace) who my daughter sold back to Shihara's breeder when she decided to get out of goats came back temporarily to have her kid(s). So we get to goat sit until the babies are born. WOOHOO! This will be Storm's first kid(s) of the year to be born so I'm super excited to get to be a part of the birth. She is losing ligaments in her tail and I noticed considerable swelling in her vulva today.
WOW. Maybe sooner than later. I did not realize how much I'd miss little Shia but her sweet face sure brightened my day - she let me give her a belly and side rub today while she stuck her head in the air like this was the most pleasurable thing to ever happen to her. I sure am gonna love having her here while she gets to stay. can't wait to see Storm's first baby(ies) of the year!!!!
I will keep you all posted and post pics - NO MATTER WHAT the letter of the day is.