Nearing the End of Elementary School

Ashley and I are about to finish the elementary phase of our kid's school careers.  Kennedy and I had our last father-daughter dance.  She's growing up too fast.  She will be in middle school next year, Alex will be in high school.  She has also been playing travel basketball over the winter has made impressive improvements (we are ready for it to be over though...).

Beautiful girl.

 

Bristol Bullets 2016-2017.

Kidding 2017

I did some barn remodel in preparation for this year kid crop. Took out a divider to make one large area, built some kidding/lambing pens, and best of all - electricity. We are more prepared this year.

LED's - no messing around here.

Pen hinges.  I can attach several together with the rebar pin to make multiple pens as well as connect to barn walls.

 

Goat butts. Pregger moms about to pop.

We put the billy goat in with our nanny goats in early June, hoping for Christmas babies that would be ready to sell at Easter. I guess due to the heat in the Summer, the girls didn't come in heat until later and we missed our Easter market birthdates. Our first twins were born premature to a first time mom and neither survived, despite our tube feeding and Rocky's close watch.

Rocky would lay with this baby all night, he was so worried. Its like he knew it was in trouble.

Finally, we caught a break in 2017 with most of the rest of the nannies having healthy, beautiful kids.  We still have 2 more moms left to have theirs, I guess they cycled in late.

Kennedy hanging out with babies.



Ole Bill threw some black headed color this time.

Everyone enjoying the warn weather.

Coco, after she just had her baby girl. The pens worked great.

Olive, with babies below.

Mask says Hi!

Cheesecake and her girl from last year, Nilli.

Zeke has become a barn cat and eats dinner with the other two barn cats in the hay loft.



Fluff Butt waiting for dinner.

LaShonda

Dixie has been pregnant, as you can we her belly has been on ground for a while now.

She had two puppies but one didn't make it 😢. It's alright though we have this little sweet fur baby, LaShonda, to cuddle everyday. Dixie's milk dried up after several days so we had to syringe feed her for a bit but everything is back to normal and momma is doing great.


We can't decide if we are going to sell her or not (with each day we have her, its looking like not!).

Mom and LaShonda resting.

Eyes not quite ready to open.

Eating like a champ.

Chilling with mom and dad, and eating again.