This past Saturday my boss Mary must have heard something in the middle of night and went out to the barn to check on it. Turns out that one of our angora goats was giving birth at two in the morning. (If you didn't know, Angora goats are different then the rest of the goats that we have which are dairy goats. Angora goats are raised/used for their wool, like sheep.)
Now finding a goat giving birth in the spring is not uncommon at all, the thing is with Abigail (the angora goat that gave birth) is that she was not bred this year. We have figured out how she got bred. We have a pen of our angora mothers and their children who all live together. Then we have a pen WAY on the other side of the barn with our mail angora Leroy. So there was No way that she just happened to wander across the entire farm and get into his pen. Now one of the other angora's children, Peter, was neutered late. He was living in the pens with the moms, so that's how we think that happened. Accidents sure do happen on a farm, and now we know to get animals neutered on time. So now we have twin angora's.
That's not the end of the story though. One of them, a little girl (she is the brown one, which is actually called red on an angora goat.), well she was born pretty weak. Her mother would not nurse her well either, so we had to take her out. She wasn't getting enough milk, and being weak as she already was she needed extra. She now lives with all our other crazy goats/lambs and she is doing much better. At the farm we explain to the kids that she was born sick, and so her mother wasn't able to take care of her so we did to give her lots of extra vitamins and medicines cause her mother can't do that cause she is a goat! The other baby that Abigail had was born a bit stronger so he (I'm pretty sure it is a male) is still with his mama. It is a bit sad that they can not live together, but maybe once they are off milk she will go back and meet her brother. Personally I am glad we have some baby angora's, because I love them. They may scream a lot, but don't all goats. Our angoras are some of the sweetest on the farm, so I don't mind having more. Plus the black ones are always my favorite, so we have one more of them - Yeah! Mary wants to name the little girl (brown/red) angora: Little Red, or Red Riding Hood, but we will all just probably call her Red. First goat named of the year! Bellow are just some pictures of the two baby's. :D
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| Me & Red. |
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| Sleeping babies just melt my heart. |
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