My Saanen (pronounced Sah nen) goat, Y U Love, had her babies yesterday. She had two beautiful bucklings. One is solid white and the other looks like a Holstein cow. I was so hoping that Y would have a girl to hang out with because the other goats are not very nice to her. Not meant to be though. We don’t name boy goats because they don’t stay on the farm. So I will just call them thing one and thing two for now.
Well, now I am having a hard time uploading photos so I hope I got the video right this time.
My parents were here this weekend to visit and celebrate my childrens’ birthdays. She had her iphone in the barn and took this cute video of the puppies.
Happy Birthday baby puppies! These little fur balls are so cute! They have grown up so much and so quickly. This week they are starting to play together. I am glad my own children don’t grow up this fast.
Meet Rita, Fleur and Poppy.
Rita
Rita is the largest of the puppies. She is the first to engage in play and the most vocal. She was named after the journalist who told stories in Harry Potter.
Fleur
Fleur is also named after one of the school champions in Harry Potter. She is the whitest and prettiest puppy. She is not at all as shy as the picture seems to depict. She was just ambushing her sister from between my legs.
Poppy
Poppy is the smallest of the puppies. She snuggles with everyone. She is sweet and always trying to keep up. She is also the only one who can get to mom through the fence. The other two are too big to fit but she can still squeeze through and get all the milk for herself.
Three little puppies
Fleur is in front, Rita is on the left and Poppy is hiding.
We have another barn cat. She looks like she is not having a good time at all but she is starting to warm up to me. We will be letting her out of her prison er halfway house um, her crate next week. I hope she sticks around. There are enough mice to keep her busy for a while.
This is not the first meal for the puppies because I did not realize how cute they would be and didn’t bring the camera. Their first meal they went swimming in it.
Yummy!
They slurped and slurped.
Hey! Move over.
Burp
These girls are so delicious! Don’t you just want to eat them up?!
The puppies just started week 3 of life on Heaven Scent Farms. Their eyes are now open and they are starting to move about.
Life is good
sound asleep
I haven’t taken too many pictures of these babies because I have been cuddling and snuggling them when I get the chance and don’t want to waste time taking pictures. I have a feeling that all that is about to change.
waking up sister
The puppies are now mobile. When I visited the barn today two of them were nursing and one was sleeping in the corner. After one of them finished her lunch she went to wake the other one up. Once she was awake she was on the move to find lunch.
How cute are they!
I will try to be better at updating pictures of these precious girls.
Wow! What an exciting weekend. My site was hacked into, then it went down, then I was locked out. I am not sure what it all means. Maybe it means I have arrived?!
Probably not, maybe I didn’t have the precautions in place because…I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING! For those of you who know me it is of no surprise. I fly by the seat of my pants most of the time and only know enough to be dangerous. Hopefully I will be able to hire someone to help me with what I don’t know….HAHAHAHA. That is if I can get them to stop running and screaming from me because what I don’t know is a lot.
We had to change the look of the site for awhile but hopefully soon I will have it back or maybe a brand new look. Time will tell.
Sophie’s puppies were a week old on Sunday. We had two tragedies the day before. Sophie is kind of old to be a first time mom and while she is doing great, she was laying on top of the puppies. My friend Karen told me to put her in the milking room of the barn where there is a concrete floor. We put down a large piece of carpet so that Sophie would know she was laying on the babies and not a bunch of hay. It has worked like a charm. The babies (the 3 little pigs as I call them) are growing so fast. We saw the largest one try to walk on all fours. Up until today they have been carpet surfing.
New Pad
I wanted to get a few more pictures of them before they open their eyes. That could be anytime now.
Complete cuteness!
That picture looks like a polar bear cub! The boys have been talking about names- a lot!
I think we decided that if we keep one of the ones that don’t have many markings we would name her “Fleur” We will just have to see.
3 little pigs
I got a request from our NJ cousins for a puppy. I thought to myself…these are working dogs. Then I realized it might be perfect because there are 5 kids in that family. That dog would be working, for sure. Not sure Uncle John or Aunt Kris would approve though. We’ll talk.
Sophie had her puppies early Sunday morning and didn’t deliver her last pup until 3pm Sunday afternoon. It was a long day for her.
Brand new babies
These pictures are when they are a few hours old.
Sophie delivered 12 puppies in all. We have 5 beautiful girls who survived. This was Sophie’s first time to be a Mom. She took care of all the puppies but quite a few of them were still-born.
Boys were surprised to see babies.
Things have been crazy here this last week so I have not spent a ton of time with the babies but I hope that will be changing soon.
I am official on baby watch. Sophie is due to have her puppies today. I figured that she would have them last night due to the weather systems and storms that were going on last night.
Sophie
I went out to the barn after the major system came through to check on her and….nothin’. I went out there this morning hoping to see something different and….nothin’. Since I don’t have much going on today she will wait to have them tomorrow when I am too busy to check on her.
