Saturday, March 03, 2018

Sorting the kids

I have been trying to sort out all the kids.  It is hard to keep up with who belongs to whom when you have 16 kids.

We have nine girls, 3 mostly white with brown heads, 3 solid red-brown, and 3 multi-colored.

                                                    First the nine girls.


                                                 Here's Cher's Martha Washington.


Cocoa's Tootsie Roll


Big White's Minni-Pearl [she was just Pearl, but the spot in the middle of her face resembles the state of Minnesota, so I changed her name to Minni-Pearl today].  In front is BW's other girl, Dale Jr.


The three oldest red goats.  Two boys and one girl.  I can't really tell which one is the girl.  Red's boy is lighter red, Lisa Kelly's boy has white feet.  I think Red's girl is in the middle, but not sure.


Two younger red-brown girls that I can't really tell apart.  Blackie's girl Jasmine is a little bigger than Seven's Pocahontas.  Pocahontas had a white spot on her right front hoof, but you cannot see that here.



Cocoa's Snickers, a mate to Tootsie Roll above. 


Lilly's Lightin'.


And Big White's Dale Jr., a mate to Minni-Pearl above.  I can tell Dale by the black tip on her tail.



And the Seven boys.


Then the seven boys, 2 red boys, 4 mostly white with brown heads, and 1 multi-colored.

Two red boys, one from Red and one from Lisa Kelly.  Plus Red's Georgie Girl and Tootsie Roll.  And I still can not tell the red kids apart.


Cher's boy has a lot more white on his face than his sister above.  Both Cher's kids have her speckled ears.


Lilly's boy almost has a diamond on his face and so does one of the girls, Snickers, I think.


Seven's boy on the left, with his sister Pocahontas, one of the red girls.


Lou's two boys, one white with brown head and one multi-colored.  Both really good looking kids.


Below is Big White and her two girls.



Blackie and the two red girls.  


Cher and her boy and gir.


Cocoa and her two girls, Snickers and Tootsie Roll.


Three girls, Martha Washington, Dale Jr., and Lightin.



Lou and her two boys.



Red's two, I think the girl is on the left.


Seven and her boy and red girl.


Seven and the boy.


ALL THIRTEEN born in February.  The big red ones were born the last day of January.



And two boys and one girl enjoying the sunshine this afternoon.




Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Gone South


Son has gone to a job in Mississippi.  He called to say he arrived safely and will start work tomorrow.


This is the car he got last week so he would have something more economical  to drive to his jobs since none are very close.

We are doing fine with Granny Helen coming down in the morning to get the kids off to school.  

Goats are doing great.  Weather is better, but it has rained tonight and now the wind is trying to blow us away.  

My net has been out about half the time for the last month.  They come out and worked on it today.  Hopefully it will work better now.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Two more girls


Born sometime last night or early this morning.


This one looks just like Mama except she has a bigger white spot on her face.


This one looks just like Daddy and is going to be Dale Jr.  in spite of Robert thinking that is not a girl name.  The other one needs to be named for Mama.  OK, I have a name.  Big White's Pearl and we will call her Pearl.

I am really pleased with these two.

Gilbert is coming over today and he is going to band all the boys.  Kelly says they will bring more as weathers anyway and that way I do not have to hurry and sell them before they are 5 months old.  I do not want any of the little girls having babies out of wedlock.