06 March 2009

Goat Kid Class Portrait

With the beautiful spring-like weather, all the goat kids were out in their fenced area next to the barn. All four of them are growing nicely, and today seemed to enjoy playing with each other --- and Sausage, the yearling goat buck we decided to keep as a backup breeder.
For all we know, Sausage could be the sire of some of these kids; none of us is certain what goes on in the goat pen when we're not looking. But since we're primarily raising the goats for milk, pure bloodlines aren't something we're worrying about at this point.

Meanwhile, Eight Bits (our mature Toggenburg buck, and sire of Sausage) looked on proudly:

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