Last goat baby of the year just dropped! Right on her due date.

With 15 babies from 10 pregnancies, that concludes #BabyGoatCountdown for 2025. (I have to actually sit down and write some notes for this year's birth record at some point soon before I forget everything...aaahhhh too much happening)

Surprise goat babies!! (It's the end of the kidding season, I was clearly not keeping track as well at the end of breeding season as at the beginning... First oopsie for this #BabyGoatCountdown )

My 13yo decided to throw in some car names, so the babies are Kia and Cybertruck. The latter due to safety issues on exiting... Mama and babies are all doing great now, though!

Good morning from baby goat land. Next #BabyGoatCountdown isn't until next week, so please enjoy yesterday's brand new goat (and another goat on a horse).
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Remember how I said that I was wrong about that one goat's due date? Yeah, I was right. One nice big, healthy new baby with very long ears! (So she also messed up my prediction about Lamancha short-ear genes dominating over Nubian long-ear genes...genetics is wild.) #BabyGoatCountdown

Took the newest baby goat and her mama out of the barn and into the herd today. She had to be thoroughly sniffed by everybody, but they were all very polite! She's happily bopping around while her mama eats lots of hay and grass.

#BabyGoatCountdown side-note: the second mama who I thought was due on Tuesday appears to have gotten pregnant later than I thought. So... she's definitely pregnant, but the due date will be a surprise, I guess? Yay? At least the weather is warm.

The second goat who was due yesterday still didn't have babies yet! (So I"m glad that I ended up turning off my alarm and going back to sleep at 2am rather than walking out to the barn...) The baby from yesterday is EVEN CUTER! Hopefully one or two more babies will be born today (again, she will probably will wait until I have to head to campus...) #BabyGoatCountdown
Going to do one last barn check before bed and hopefully there's another baby out there. Otherwise I guess I'm getting up at 2am to check on things again...sigh. At least it's not -20C out for #BabyGoatCountdown round 2!

I love getting home and finding a brand new, super healthy baby goat! Round 2 of the #BabyGoatCountdown is here! Looks like the Lamancha-tiny-ears genes win out over Nubian-giant-ears genes for at least 2 generations. Interesting.

Bonus: Llama with a fine hay hat.