Kayla has been hanging out solo all week and begging for extra rations. Finally, today while the boys were napping and I was working, about 3:45 pm, I heard one of our white does bleating and went to go check on her. Well, she was talking to someone. It was Kayla in the adjoining pasture!
She went to the shelter and was in labor. All the Highlands were standing around watching her...no pressure, right!? Right as I walked up, she delivered a white or very light grey ram lamb with a black spot on his hip, a medium grey ring around his neck, and silver flecking on his head. He was already trying to nurse but Kayla was more interested in cleaning him up.
Pictures tomorrow when all are settled. So I got all interested parties out of the way, put 2 closing panels on the entry and exit, and got her personal water, hay and a bit of grain. He's beautiful and already a sweetie. I'll visit later tonight after our boys are asleep to give him a couple of squirts of drench to help keep him perky through the night.
Our next to deliver is Hot Cocoa, our black doe, in mid-May and then Hot Shot, the highland cow, should have a new calf come late summer. Cocoa is starting to shed her light brown cashmere and Flicker is shedding her white cashmere so I'm anxious to have a chance to comb them.
Now we can focus on watching all the young 'uns grow, attempting to get a garden in without the boys trampling it all, building a run-in shed, and doing some more fencing. In between all the appraisal work created by everyone refinancing, that is!
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