Animals
- Being Thankful
First, let me wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgivingfrom all of us here on the farm! We have so much to be thankful for... each and every day.We are most thankful for the souls that share this life with us...family, friends, and critters.Our lives...
- The Dating Game
It is mating season here on the farm. The other morning, Becky and I did a bit of rearranging and paired up bucks and does for mating. None of the does wanted to leave their pen, so we had to move everyone together and then remove the ones who were not...
- Turf Wars
Well, the girls have had a bit of a dispute this past week. It seems that Jill will not let Missy into the maternity ward. Our three pregnant does are housed in their own goat yard with a luxury goat house. This goat house is big and wide open until the...
- Babies On Board
Becky and I braved the frigid temperatures and checked our female fainting goats for pregnancy. This involves shaving a patch of fur on their underbellies and applying a conductive jelly (brrrrrr, cold!) and then moving the ultrasound probe around against...
- Goat Pregnancies.....exciting News!!!
If you all will remember, I had told you the story of our little fainting goat buck's first attempt at procreation.....in a nutshell, he attempted to mount and dropped over in a faint. Well, the good news is......HE DID IT!!! Three of our females,...
Animals
Babies On Board!!
Happy news for Bee Haven Acres: Missy and Myrtle are pregnant!
You might remember a post from about two months ago, when we led our bucks, kicking and screaming, down to the yard closer to the gals. Here is Smoochie in an act of protest.
We put Chip and Missy together, and Myrtle with Smoochie. Smoochie was quite the gentleman and kindly got to work....in a rather gentle fashion.
Chip, on the other hand was a bit rough with Missy
and she appeared to not care too much for him.
As a result, we weren't sure that Missy had actually been bred.
Becky and I did an ultrasound pregnancy check on both does yesterday. Becky handled the technical aspect. I kept the goats quiet with the ever-popular Ritz crackers (the all-time goat favorite) and recorded the event by camera. Becky shaved a spot on their abdomen, applied the KY and moved the Ultrasound wand around.....and found.......
Myrtle is pregnant with triplets.
Here is a picture of one of her fetuses....you can see its head and spinal cord (looks like a tail).
Good job, Myrtle!!! Missy was next....shave, KY....a quick look around revealed......
twins!! (yes, I know...it just looks like a blob)
Way to go girls (and guys, too)!
Next it is time to mate O'Malley and Sissy with our little MoJo....sure hope he's up for the task. So far he has shown no interest in girls. I suppose he is at that "girls are yucky" stage of adolescence. Keep your fingers crossed.....time will tell.
- Being Thankful
First, let me wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgivingfrom all of us here on the farm! We have so much to be thankful for... each and every day.We are most thankful for the souls that share this life with us...family, friends, and critters.Our lives...
- The Dating Game
It is mating season here on the farm. The other morning, Becky and I did a bit of rearranging and paired up bucks and does for mating. None of the does wanted to leave their pen, so we had to move everyone together and then remove the ones who were not...
- Turf Wars
Well, the girls have had a bit of a dispute this past week. It seems that Jill will not let Missy into the maternity ward. Our three pregnant does are housed in their own goat yard with a luxury goat house. This goat house is big and wide open until the...
- Babies On Board
Becky and I braved the frigid temperatures and checked our female fainting goats for pregnancy. This involves shaving a patch of fur on their underbellies and applying a conductive jelly (brrrrrr, cold!) and then moving the ultrasound probe around against...
- Goat Pregnancies.....exciting News!!!
If you all will remember, I had told you the story of our little fainting goat buck's first attempt at procreation.....in a nutshell, he attempted to mount and dropped over in a faint. Well, the good news is......HE DID IT!!! Three of our females,...