New Kids on the Farm



Meet Peaches and Fern.  We purchased them Wednesday morning and haven't had a moments rest since.

Fern is a 7 week old Toggenburg/Saanen cross.
Note Bear in the background.

Peaches is a 2 week old Boer/Saanen cross.

Fern thinks the world is hers to rule and acts the spoiled Princess role.
She is very smart and inquisitive.  She also loves to eat paper and plastic and has eyesight to rival an eagle.

Peaches is the traumatized baby, she had been de-budded the night

before we bought her, and had her last meal from mom that morning. 

We cannot get her to feed from a bottle.  We have tried everything

we can think of and have seeked help from the internet.  She eats hay

well enough and nibbles on Goat Chow and grass, but we know she 

needs goat milk too.  Any suggestions? 

For now we are raising them in the Pallet Palace, today we transferred the rabbits to our garage storage area.  Fern pointedly ignores us when we enter this door, but cries pittiously when we leave.  It really is heartwrenching and she carries on for up to 20 minutes. This troubles poor old Bear who thinks he is their mother (much to the goats dismay) and tries to get in to them.  But the goats don't trust my big black male dog yet.   Neither does my wife !!!