In January or February I installed a roll-up door on the barn. I had planned on building a pair of traditional exterior sliding doors, but changed plans to get a better weather-tight seal. I installed interior and exterior weather stripping.
As mentioned in the previous blog, kidding season started early (January). The problem was unlike last year when we had all 25 new kids in 9 days, this year it lasted 3 months. Checking on expecting does (heavies) a couple of times a night became quite a chore. But we got through it and boy are they cute.
This is a portion of the 35 new kids. With one big buck, does and kids we had a total of close to 60 goats for a short time before we began to sell many of them.
One yearling doe turned out to not be pregnant. Remember these are livestock farm animals raised for one purpose. We made a tasty batch of goat meat snack sticks.
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