Well, I finally got a bit of a baby fix. I'm still holding out for my dairy goat babies - there is something uniquely charming and squee-worthy about a tiny little earless face, and I still melt for little white ears and pink noses - but in the meantime I have something that is a different kind of UH-dorable. My favorite Boer show doe, Princess, has been waddling around moaning and groaning for weeks, and she finally kidded on February 1st - introducing Charlotte, Tiana, and Big Daddy!
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| Princess the morning before she kidded, feeling rather rotund |
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| BABIES! Big Daddy in front and little sister Tiana behind him. |
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| Tiana has "running lights!" |
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| The only picture I have of the biggest (and firstborn) baby, Charlotte. She's a big, long, stout, gorgeous girl with a great head - but she was more interested in burying herself in her mama's breakfast! |
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| Baby Tiana was named after the main character in The Princess and the Frog, because she was born with "frog legs." (It was a little cramped in there, and the tendons in her legs are contracted, meaning she can't straighten her knees or pasterns - aka ankles - and tends to scoot around like a little bullfrog.) She'll grow out of it - they're already getting straighter - but in the meantime it's not slowing her down any! She also has one of the prettiest heads I've ever seen on a baby Boer - and I love her little pouty face! |
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| Big Daddy hammin' it up. He loves his scritches. |
YAY BABIES!
