Liam and Seamus participated in their first ever soccer tournament! It is fun to see how they have grown both as children and soccer players over the soccer season. The boys each scored a goal and they had lots of fun leaping and racing across the field with their teammates.
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| May 21, 2019 |
Back on the farmstead, everything goat is going like clockwork. The kids are busy bonding with their respective mama and vice versa. All the babies are nursing, peeing, and pooping with abandon. I definitely cleaned some pasty goat butts today. I sprayed their bums with cooking spray (think Vaseline on human infant bums) to try to stop their baby poop from sticking everywhere but that only worked so well. I see a barn mucking on the top of our to do list for tomorrow along with a hive inspection, day lily planting, and a much needed lawn mowing.
We are so lucky and thankful that all our goats are happy and healthy. It seems incredible that we went from two to seven goats in less than a week. We now have a goat herd!
We will keep Martha and Mellie separated for a few more days to solidify the mama-baby bonds and then we will merge them back together in the goat barn. Following this, the task will be to work with getting Ava comfortable around the new goats. She is very big in comparison to them and is still a puppy herself (she is five and a half months old now). Her visits with them have to be highly supervised to make sure nobody gets accidentally injured. Ava tends to expresses her joy at her new herd with "lopulous leaps" as Dr. Seuss would say. In fairness, the kids are doing lots of leaping themselves but given that one of Ava's paws is about the size of a kid, her doggie leaps have the potential to be much more dangerous.
And just in case you were wondering, a hungry mama goat will not hesitate to eat your cauliflower transplants if you accidentally forget about them while supervising Ava around her kids. :(
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