We had been on pins and needles lately with one of our girls, Boheme, who was well past her initial due date. Though we’ve had completely normal births past 365 days even, we’d be fibbing if we didn’t admit that anywhere past that 355 to 360 day mark starts to make us all feel a…
Why we waited to do the 3rd round of weaning for the 2012 birth class until the coldest day yet in January was perhaps lost on all of us but oh, well. There were some monsters in this group too, with several of them near or over the 100 lb. mark. Of all the criticisms…
Musette, our little C-section baby that could, was weaned from her mom, Boheme, the other day. That was in point of fact, more the psychological weaning, as she had already more or less weaned herself some weeks earlier off of the hanging goat bottle which had been her primary food source since birth. Nonetheless, it…
Big news two days ago when we found out that our super female, La Boheme, was pregnant again for the first time since giving birth to her daughter Musette via cesarean section! “Giving birth” might not quite be the best turn of phrase here given the drama that was involved at the time but you…
Some relatively big happenings here on the farm yesterday. For one, our female Boheme who, along with her little girl Musette (that’s her at left eyeballing me in the pasture), has been back in the general population since late last week, was bred for the first time since her daughter came to us via cesarean…
So the bad news with Boheme is that it is now clear that she and her cria will never truly bond in the conventional sense. This is for at least two reasons. First and foremost the trauma of the operation which allowed her daughter, Musette, to come into this world was apparently simply too much. The…
