Spring 2023

What a fascinating Spring. The weather can't decide what to do. We've alternated from almost 90 degrees down to 50 within hours, over and over. Luckily, the rain has been intermittant. Grass is growing. The trees are recovering from several years of drought. Saanen cross babies were born on February 22. The dam is Bug, a purebred Saanen. The buck is a brown and black Nubian from the other side of Spicewood. Doeling first, then a stuck buckling that I thought was going to die before I got his right front leg unstuck from under Bug's pelvis. His lips were blue by the time I got the leg out. Following was the second buckling, quick and healthy. They are doing well. I did supplement the unstuck buckling with some milk replacer in a pan for a while. He just seemed to not be thriving as well as the others. It helped him rally. The second buckling has been band castrated, and he's going to a local family for a fall picnic. I'll keep the doeling to see how she grows out and a possible replacement for Bug, as she's about ten years old. The buckling that was stuck has been named Frodo, and he'll stay around long enough to breed to Sissie (the yearling Nubian) in the fall.