'Spring is in the air'

It is so warm! We had about 1" of snow on the ground at noon and about 3:00 PM it was all melted! Our pond is all slushie :-( I'm ready for some winter! Are we going to have at least a month of it?
I'll give a tour of our animals.

Daisy (Alpine)

Sheri, Bennet's goat (Saanen, Alpine cross)

Rumor (Neubian)

Dutchess

Rascal

Tabby

The geese. We don't name most them, but the dark one's named Robin Hood :-)(Embden, except for the dark one; it's a cross with something)

The chickens by the coop. They're Goldstar breed. They're getting older, so hopefully we can get some new Rhode Island Reds soon.

The playground Daddy made

Nesting boxes in the chicken coop

Issabel (Izzy), Avery's goat (3/4 neubian, 1/4 alpine)

Lady, my goat (3/4 neubian, 1/4 alpine)

Annabel (Annie), Laurel's goat (3/4 neubian, 1/4 alpine. She has airplane ears; more straight out because alpines have straight up ears and neubeans have floppy ears, so a cross can turn out with sraight out ears :-)

We have lots of fun (and work) with our goats. We milk them mostly in the summer. We have them dried off right now. Once they have their babies in the spring they will hopefully be full of milk.
What we make with their milk:

-kefir smoothies :-P
-yogurt
-cheese - mozerella, feta, cream cheese
-buttermilk
We drink it plain, too.

Our goats are very friendly. They won't butt people, but they do butt each other, in play and not in play. They have a certain pecking order, and they fight to keep leadership or to gain it. Dad made them a rocking toy so they can jump up and balance and play. Us kids sometimes do it with them. One time I hiyped the goats up and was jumping up on it and them running off. They would follow me. I almost skipped a heartbeat when Daisy didn't stop, but lowered her head and charged for me! She skidded to a stop a foot away from me.
We have a couple shy goats. They're shy because they weren't bottle-fed when babies; they nursed. They didn't learn to trust people.
Our duties to maintain our goats:
-Milk them
-Feed them
-Trim their hoofs
-Keep the fences nice
-Keep the bedding nice (one time a goat of ours died of pnemonia because it was too damp)
-Keep them in good health
-They like love, too :-)
We love our goats, but they are not exactly pets. We grow them for meat sometimes. They multiply very quickly; they can be bred at 7 months and their pregnancy lasts 5 months. Their first year they usually have 1-2 kids. Over one yr of age they mostly have from 1-3, sometimes 4 (that's not very common, though; it's only happened to us once).
This April we should be getting lots of kid goats. It's fun guessing how many they're going to have :-)