The mamma (Daisy) stands by their pen almost every minute. She licks and talks to them. We seperated them because we want to milk Daisy. If the kids suck her even once we won't ever be able to put them in the same pen again. They will want to suck even if they're older. We feed them with bottles.
This one's a male. We don't take too much thought into naming our bucks. I just call him Bozo, but B calls him Jack and L calls him Bucky.
This one's Rosie.
This one goat has been very curious about the babies. She even jumped into their pen a few times.
We have been feeding these two milk as well as water now.
Lizzie - I adopted and named this one. We used to bottle feed her, but her mother (Lady) has fairly small teats and was a pain to milk, so we're letting her suck. She's still very tame, though, and lets me hold her.
These are our two newest additions to our herd, Cappy and Lizzie.
If I stick out my chin and make sucking noise she sucks (and chews) on my chin. I've found she's getting some teeth :-S
Cappy - B and L named this one. He was just born in this photo.
We've made a couple changes to the kid pen. The kids started jumping out of it and sucking on their mamma, so we made it taller. We also put a little hay manger in it so they can gradually start eating hay.
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