So we have a new baby goat & NBGB Luca's birthday

On Friday night our second female, Willow, gave birth to a set of twins - a little boy (who died shortly after birth - farming is not for the faint of heart!) and this little girl, Lexi. She was unable to stand and at 2 1/2 lbs is very small. Our vet confirmed today that she is premature but he's happy with how she is doing. We (and by we, I mean Gary) has been feeding her with a tube as she is too small to nurse from her mom and we are starting her on a bottle but she gets tired easily and stops sucking. On day 3 she started standing and now is walking really well so we just have to get her a little bigger so that she can nurse from her momma. We have worked really hard to keep her in the barn - she was in the house (pic below) for 2 nights to rest and then back to the barn. She is so tiny and so sweet!

To get an idea of how much Sprocket has grown, he was only a pound bigger than Lexi at birth and now, at 7 1/2 weeks, he is a whopping 12.5 lbs! We are hoping that tonight will be his first night in the barn - we've been intoducing him gradually and things have been going well.


Sprocket loves chewing - on anything - clothes, hair, whatever!



My two babies - Sprocket is a little jealous - especially when he sees Lexi's bottle, so now when Gary is feeding Lexi, I feed Sprocket his bottle. Get a visual on this - Gary has 2 patio chairs in our little barn and he bottle feeds Lexi in his chair and I bottle feed Sprocket in my chair! Do we sound just a little bit crazy???

The proud momma, Willow and her tiny Lexi.

On to other 'kids' - yesterday was Luca's 3rd birthday. He's playing with his new tow truck here.

Big brother Aaron (5.5) an birthday boy, Luca with Luca's birthday balloon. My non-biological grandbabies are growing up too fast!