Most of my goats are Saanens, but I long ago fell in love with LaManchas and finally got two of them a few years ago. However, for various reasons, I've never actually gotten purebred LaMancha kids. Last fall I had the opportunity to breed does to a really lovely LaMancha buck, Elm*Glen Brazil - and having seen several of his (fabulous) daughters in person, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. Violet made the trip to Manteca in October - and miraculously developed a sudden hatred for males in general. She was such a witch that day that we weren't sure if she would actually settle, but crossed our fingers and hoped for the best. I was pretty convinced that she would be open, or that she would have something to the tune of triplet bucks, just to spite me. That's just how she is. I was in for a pleasant surprise...
Introducing: Corsica and Valencia!
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| BABIES! They're still wet in this photo - better ones are below. Corsica is on the left, Valencia on the right. |
That's right, twin does. Apparently Violet thinks that proving me wrong is more important than spiting me. Or something. Whatever the reason, I'm not complaining. When they were born I was a little let down that they were both black, but once dry their color lightened up a bit. Valencia has a white belly and a funny two-tone off-black color; Corsica, to my delight, has turned a lovely silvery brown! The first Lamancha I fell in love with was a chocolate-colored doe, so it's basically been my goal in life to have a light brown LaMancha. I won't breed for color - at least I tell myself I won't - but it's definitely a perk.
These two also have personalities the size of Texas - Corsica is the intrepid explorer, while Valencia is more of a mama's girl. Both of them have tons of 'tude while in the pen, and simply walking in with them elicits a rather impressive display of jumping around, shaking their heads, marching up to you and snorting before they start trying to nibble on the nearest piece of your clothing. And yet, they are so sweet and snuggly when you pick them up. I am quite enchanted.
I'm also finding it extremely difficult to get photos of them because they're so darn wiggly. Below are what I've managed to glean out of 50+ attempts...enjoy!
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| Valencia's totally in the way, but you can sort of see how lovely Corsica looks when she's standing still. And I LOVE her color! |
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Corsica!
I'll eventually figure out how to rotate photos, but for now if you cock your head to the left you'll notice how adorable she is. |
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| Valencia has just a wee bit of an attitude. |
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Again, I'll eventually get this righted...
"Oh look, a SHINY OBJECT!" |
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Valencia! "Whatcha doin, mom?"
I don't have as many photos of her...who me? Play favorites? Lies. All lies. |
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| Nothing beats having a sister to snuggle up with. |
I actually don't know if it's possible to rotate pictures in Blogger, I've never tried. I've always just rotated them on my computer before uploading them; that's always worked for me.
ReplyDeleteOh, cute babies by the way! =)
ReplyDeleteThanks! And yeah, I've always had to save photos to the computer and then rotate them, I was just too lazy to do anything more than upload them directly from the camera. I'll fix it eventually. =)
ReplyDeleteWeird colors. Weird! Valencia looks like she's been out in the sun too long.
ReplyDeleteBut they are adorable and I look forward to claiming my baby kisses. :D
They're so cute! Isn't your Spring break this week? Maybe I'll come out and rise to the challenge of shooting your babies! Shooting, as in camera, of course. :)
ReplyDeleteYes it is! You should definitely come over. Even if we don't do anything goatish, we could make cookies and play games or something...
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