The Family Cochran: Goat Kids!!!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Goat Kids!!!

Last Monday (March 10th) Sariah had her kids!!! Daddy was on his way to work when he stopped down by the goat shed and heard some baby goat sounds. Sariah had the kids sometime in the wee hours of the morning! Daddy promptly came up to the house to get us. Sariah had triplets. Two girls and a boy. Unfortunately, the boy was dead when we found him. The two girls are doing great though and are very adorable! We named them Fawny (because she looks like a Fawn) and Felicity. We decided that each time we have kids it would be fun to name kids with the same letter of the alphabet.

Since this is our first time with a goat kidding, Monday was an exciting (and challenging) day trying to take care of the kids and getting used to milking! With bottle feeding the kids and getting use to milking Sariah, things have been keeping us busy, but we are really enjoying it.

For the first several days, Sariah was SO stubborn when we would try to get her on the milking stand to milk her. We were trying everything that we could possibly think of! Sariah would even lay down when she saw us coming to make it that much more difficult! Having to lift a 150 pound goat on to the milking stand is NOT easy!!! Thankfully, a neighbor girl was able to help Sabrina and I get her on the milking stand (because mommy and daddy can't right now). I am very happy to say that things are getting much better. The process of getting the goat on the milking stand has gone from 10-15 minutes to now only taking 1-2!!! We are really enjoying the fresh goats milk. It is delicious!!! I hope that you enjoy all the pictures!!!

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