Sometimes there are goats who just don’t show that they’re pregnant. One day they will act like they are bred, and the next day they are running around like crazy and you’re almost positive that they aren’t. If they only have one baby, they can stay really small, and you’re not sure if they’re pregnant or just fat.

Jericho was definitely one of those goats. She just wasn’t showing that she was pregnant, and didn’t act like it most days. We were only sure that she was pregnant when she started going into labor.

She had a super easy birth for a first freshener and to our surprise, had a healthy, pretty big doeling. We named her Jacinta.

What’s interesting about Jacinta is that she was a fantastic eater. We bottle raise all the kids, and usually after a week or so we can transition them to the lambar, where they eat with all the older bucklings and doelings. Jacinta was on the lambar at only 2 days old! She saw how the other kids were eating, and wanted to join them. When Greyden noticed it, he made us all come look because it was so unusual. It was very impressive.

2015 kid count: 28 doelings, 27 bucklings
2015 doe status (33 total): 23 does kidded, 10 left to go
2 set of quads, 8 sets of triplets, 10 set of twins, 3 singles