2009 Theme

Well, it official - we will be using "drinks" as a theme for naming this year's babies.  We are getting excited for the new arrivals - March is coming very quickly!  We had 10 does confirmed pregnant by ultrasound in January.  Those are all due in March.  Then we had 2 more confirmed pregnant via a blood test, and those are due in June.  

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Preparing for babies

Well, as we started thinking about all the bouncing babies that are due to arrive in March - we realized that we needed to reorganize the animals a little bit to fit everyone in the barn.  Okay - no problem.  Wait - we didn't have enough room for all of them to eat!  Minor oversight!  So, we decided that we needed to make a new feeder.

This is a "keyhole" feeder, very similar to those that we built a few years ago.  The difference is - the feeders we built previously let 5 goats eat at one time, only on one side.  This feeder is slightly wider and allows for 5 goats to eat on each side.  

The project went rather smoothly, and after about 3 hours on Saturday and 2 hours on Sunday - it's finished!  We are going to wait until we clean the barn to install it.  But, we think it turned out quite nice and should definately do the job.  Chris even tested it out!