More goat drama, Stormy moves in, weather still crazy

Bella with new baby

More Goat Drama
We can never predict how the goat birthing season will go. Our first few years went smoothly, but now that we (think) we have it all figured out, we don't.

The little cutie above is 1 of the 2 who had mixed up moms, thanks to me and the hub. Happy to say that he and his sister and their real mom are all just fine now.

Stormy

No sooner do we straighten that out, when on Tuesday, Bella delivers a healthy boy. We assume she is done because this is her first year kidding and they usually have only 1. Wrong.

When I checked a few hours later, mom was lying down nowhere near her kid, and it was obvious things weren't right. After many phone calls to the vet and our Goat Lady friend Karen, I had to play midwife and poke around inside and out to find that there is another kid in there that is not coming out.

Stormy delivery on Tuesday morning

We had this problem last year with Lucille, and ended up losing her and her 2 kids. This year, Karen came to the rescue. In the goat hospital (again in the back of my poor Kia!) she carefully pulled out the little girl kid shown in the photo. I was happy to be wrong this time—I really thought we were going to lose this kid and maybe mom too.

The little girl is doing great, but we lost her little brother yesterday. I think he did not get fed by mom soon enough because she was so busy with this second one. We also lost one of the triplets for reasons unknown.

Stormy Daniels and Stormy Weather
Husband has this idea that getting a pregnant sow will be a fun new project for us. I am not thoroughly convinced, but Stormy came to her new home on Tuesday morning, during the goat drama.

And, if you saw my post on Monday you saw the snow squall that came after a day of grass sightings. Tuesday had some leftover snow which melted almost completely by Thursday when I took the little goatie pic above. So what do we get today? More snow. Possibly 12", although it's looking more like 8" or 9".

Whatever...