Baby Goat Field Trip to Sunflower Farm

Do your students need a little virtual field trip? Do you need to get out of the house? Great! Come along on a trip to the farm! This video is a longer one. I will take you on a tour of all the kidding stalls. The whole right side of the barn is now full of babies! 19 in total so far have arrived! 11 does and 8 bucklings. All of them super sweet! Stay tuned for the end when I let a few out for some sweet hops! Thanks for stopping by the farm and for your continued support of humane farming on our no-cull farm!
You can watch the first 19 kids and their 6 mothers in their stalls on our live cam! Soon they will be out hopping in the pasture with the herd and another batch of babies will take their place in the kidding stalls!

Video Script:: 

good morning everybody and welcome to sunflower farm usually I don't talk on my videos but I figured today would be a great time to show you what's going on in the vine in the last 10 days we've had a whole lot of additions 19 kids have been born to 6 Nigerian Dwarf goat mamas that's the breed of goat we have and there's still 16 votes left a kid between now and June 9th but this is usually the weekend open the farm to visitors and since we can't do that I thought I would take you on a little tour of everyone who's arrived so first of all ten days ago Amelia had her babies their names are Josephine Larry and Joanie goats usually came at about a hundred and forty five days after they're bred our goats have been getting pretty close to that a couple have gone a couple days before a couple after Amelia kited on day 143 and we shall firm when we think they're bred by special sounds next to her is cinnamon you see she has four babies tucked in there there's two boys and two girls the boys and the girls are pretty even so far this year we have Agee Dimond Benjie and Lulu I've gotta get out Lulu for you okay she's totally adorable this is Lulu she's doing great she's small but she's got all the hops she's really nice and feisty I'll let everybody out out at the end so you can see I'm hopping around we made sure she got milk right away especially with the small ones you don't want him to get cold because then they can't nurse but she's doing awesome so we'll put Lulu back and continue the tour next door we have olives all of us about eight years old she's a very very sweet ghost they all are and she had our kids on April 22nd after 143 days of being bred and their names our Maisie sweet pea and Bessie 3 doling let's go take a peek nice Wiggly tails everyone's eating and they're just a day old okay so just next door we had babies who were just born this morning just about an hour ago this is Khaleesi and she had four babies to doze to the back legs [Music] just an hour old so we put them under heat lamp so they can stay nice and warm and put all their energy into getting milk one who's trying to get some milk under there is Helen this one and they have two brothers can I still getting his back legs together that's not abnormal for a newborn in there for five months and it takes a little while to untangle but if his legs don't look great this afternoon we'll give him a little Bo C which is a selenium induction here's all the ones we just flew in about an hour ago mom's still working on getting rid of her placenta so she's a little uncomfortable that she'll feel better after that on and we never send rain and we give every goat nice hot water with molasses in it after they kid [Music] she's so petite compared to her big brother we'll say goodbye to the new babies for a minute let their mom enjoy them and head next door these are Abigail's kids and they were also born just yesterday afternoon she had to this one's a little buckling monterrey they love his color is so beautiful and they're these two babies are very big and fluffy often when they only have two obviously you only have so many resources right so if she put a lot of all her resources into just two maybe instead of four they come out nice and chunky often she's all tucked in in the corner let's get her out here she is [Music] just born yesterday but they look so big and strong and I have just one more feeling to show you they were also born yesterday it was a very busy day LC is what's called Swiss marked and that must be very strong genetic color markings because almost always her babies come out looking just like her this little doe Ling with blue eyes is Petra then we have Humphrey with brown eyes and then Gershwin there's Gershwin he has blue eyes also oh and with our first goat ever who we got as a baby about 11 or 12 years ago his name is Don Pedro we got one weather which is a neutered man and a doe and we lost bonny his girlfriend a couple years ago but Don Pedro is still going strong thanks for stopping by the farm to meet all the babies born over the last 10 days and now I must let a few out and enjoy some hopping have a great day everybody [Music]