Surprise... It's a buck year!

Well, it must be a buck year here this year... Claira freshened 2 days early with a set of quadruplet buck kids. She was sneaky about it - we didn't expect her until Saturday. When Laura came home from work in the afternoon, she found the kids (although one had died). Claira is our Nubian matriarch. She is 10 years old now, and this is her 9th freshening. She typically has triplets of quads each year, and until 2009... most if not all of those had been girls! I guess she had some making up to do!

Claira is a champ - and doing fabulous. Back to eating, socializing and producing lots of milk. All three remaining kids are doing great as well. These are the first kids from out new Jr Herdsire: Silverwood Prince Merlin. Boy, are the cute!