Neptune

Yesterday we were supposed to be in town to get Canaan's birth certificate around 3:00.  We had dropped the kids off at Greg's parents and headed back to the house to pick up something we forgot.  Greg ran to the barn to check on Flo because she had squeezed from her stall into the dog's stall and we were worried about him bothering her.  Lo and behold she had already given birth to a healthy boy just a few minutes before he arrived.  Flo is our smallest and least healthiest doe, but she sure throws great kids and has no trouble giving birth.  Unfortunately, that threw off our entire evening because we had to do post-kidding tasks like dry off the kid, trim the umbilical cord and dip it in iodine, milk Flo and heat treat the colostrum, feed the kid, and then watch both kid and mom just to make sure they're both okay.  Flo surprised us because we really thought Budzi was going to go first.  But here's our new baby boy (who is right now living in our laundry room because I don't want to walk to the barn to feed him every four hours.)  His official name is Lonely Windmill Farm BT Neptune.

The boys keep going in his pen and pestering him.  I told Greg this is going to be the tamest goat ever when our boys get through with him!  Hopefully in a day or two we'll have more good news to share because Budzi sure looks like she could go any minute!