little richard!

Well, it finally happened! We got ourselves a billy goat to breed with the girls. We didn't really mean to buy him, except that it woul have cost the same to use him as a stud service or to buy him, and since we liked his blood line (his grandmother gave 13# of milk a day and his mother gave 10#), we decided it was the way to go. Now if the girls don't actually give birth, that would be a bummer, but hey, one must just roll with it. He came to us with the name of Midnight, an we have changed it to Little Richard. It's a mouthful, but he just looks too much like Little Richard to have it any other way.

Here's the thing about billy goats: they stink. A lot. The whole barn smelled like him in about 1 hour. It's kind of disgusting.

One of the reasons they smell is that they stick their heads in between their legs and pee on their face. Then they parade around the girls, doing this grinning thing, thinking they are pretty hot. Little Richard, smelling pretty!

Like any female would do under those circumstances, our girls pretty much look away in disgust, then look at me, asking me what the heck could I possibly be thinking. But he looks like Little Richard, I tell them. The hair, I continue. Just look at that hair!

I get the distinct impression they don't care. But I'm betting their babies are going to be super cute!!! Come April, we should have 2-6 little kids running around. How sweet that is going to be!