Goats!!!!

Just when I think I have goats figured out, they do something that completely baffles me. Remember last month, Ida, my black goat, miscarried. Well, today, Kallie, my BEST milker, miscarried triplets (thank you very much!). I found the tiny babies in the hay in the goat barn (boy, there are days when I really love my job!). Excuse me, I am just extremely frustrated. This year has just really sucked and it is ending badly. I don't drink, but this makes me think I might want to!

Then I sit down and think, God will get me through this. There is a reason for this. I just have to figure out WHY? Everything was going good until recently, so what changed? Bobby thinks it is my buck (boy goat). We got rid of my old buck and got a new one. The old one (well, he wasn't old, just had been here for a year or two) was related to several of the girls and we can't have him breeding with his daughters. So he got replaced. Won't think that would make that big of a difference, but I guess it could.

The thing that concerns me now is that I have lost two milkers and have three "potential" milkers left. With goats you are never sure if they are pregnant or not. You can see the "act" being done, but whether or not the buck "hit the mark" - we will find out in 5 months. If a goat is pregnant, she will develop an udder usually a week before she gives birth. I am sure my neighbors think I am some sort of pervert because I keep looking under my goats' tails looking for an udder.

Hopefully, 2011 will be better than 2010 was.