We have been having some strange (for late July) spring-like weather lately—lots of rain and cooler temperatures. I am pretty darn sure that the weather had nothing to do with this other anomaly: Lizzie the goat surprised us with 2 cute kids yesterday.
Back in early February, when most of the other kids were already born, Lizzie looked quite pregnant. She has continued to look large ever since, but we had pretty much given up on her. Then, after a rough couple of weeks here at the Flat, with too many things going on at once, I left for work on Ugly Tuesday at about 2:30 yesterday. On my way out, I went in to feed the goats when I heard what sounded like a newborn kid. Sure enough, Lizzie was just cleaning off the little white kid. I turned around to look for a towel or something to help with the cleaning, when thud, out popped number 2.
I haven't checked carefully, but I think the white one is a boy, and the brownie is a girl. Either way, it is always fun to have more kids.
And I may have yet another spring-like addition: one of our blonde hens went broody about a month ago. With the other hens kicking her out of the nest box, and she moving off the eggs when it was too hot and the others jumping in, and then she goes to a different box; she is well past the time when those chicks should have hatched and there are none.
So I am going to buy some, probably tomorrow, and move her into a separate closed crate and just hope that she thinks she hatched them. Or at least I hope that she will care for them even if she is smart enough to figure out they aren't hers. More cuteness to follow.
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