Twinkies Six Week Old Kids

It was such a “spring like” day today here in the North Georgia Mountains.  I gave my children the day off from home schooling today so we could get some farm work done outside because it was so nice out. While working outside I saw Amelia and Mini Bell sunning themselves.  God is so good.  They are so cute and beautiful to me.   

                                      Twinkies babies Amelia and Mini Bell enjoying the warm sun.

I don't think I have ever seen a goat sit like a dog before!  Amelia (Earhart that is.  Her ears looked like airplane wings when she was born. To big for her small body.) sat like that for quite a while. 

                                                             Amelia and Mini Bell playing

Yellow, our farm dog, watching over the livestock

 I love to watch them play and jump around.  They are Twinkies babies that were born six weeks ago.  They are now drinking two 20 ounce bottles a day, one in the morning and one in the evening each.  I have seen them eating hay and just this week they started picking at and eating grain.  They together eat about a fourth of a cup of grain a day now.  They are growing well and I am very pleased with them.  I will worm them as soon as they are around eight weeks old and at eight weeks I will drop them down to only one bottle a day. (just the evening feeding) I have still not seen them chewing their cud yet at all.  So I guess they are still developing their rumen.  They should start to chew any time now.

blessings, 

susan