The new goats arrived!

Please meet our new mommy & kid goats! From left to right: Thirteen (eartag number), Mountain Goat (likes to snuggle), Mountain Goat's girl kid (small black horns), behind Mountain Goat's boy kid (large yellow horns) and Thirteen's buff colored little girl.

Mountain Goat is the first to come meet anyone visiting the goat yard. She's also first into the "milking parlor" (tent) and when I bottle feed Jamie she'll come up to my other side, lean into me to get some nice head and neck scratchings... Her teats are on the small side and I have a bit of trouble milking her, on the other side, she's raising two kids so there's probably not much spare milk anyway :-)

Thirteen (Dertien) is a little shy. It took her a couple days to get into the new routine. She's always second for milking - though now she knows the routine she'll come right up to the little tent door, get in and hop onto the milking stand! Mountain Goat wiggles around to get as close to the coming feed as possible, Thirteen stands patiently until I dump it into the feeding pan. She's got a nice big udder with two bit teats, easy milking and a lot of milk (only has one kid though).

The three kids are very happy with the tractor tires, and started playing with Jamie and the Boer brothers as well. They'll tear up and down the ramps, ploink from one tire to another and generally act like little kids :-) The boy I storta call Whitey - he'll most likely be for meat - the two other girls have no names as of yet. I think to keep the buff one - I like her looks and if her udders are like her mom's she'll be easy & good milking...

The milking tent, you can vaguely see the milk stand in the middle and two bins beside if for food. The tent is open (the feed bins have good lids!) so the momma's and kids have shelter from the weather - the pick up truck cabin is too small for all of them, that's the bachelors' pad! Will need to screw a piece of wood in the entrance to make is smaller, though, the mommies squeeze in and steel the boys oats...