The Last Delivery

The last delivery of the season was a doooooooozzzzey.

Legacy is actually Susan, dear Susan's goat, but is here at Tails up because she is not in the best of health, and needed a little of what we had to offer, here. 

Legacy is the coolest goat.  I fell in love as soon as i met her, and every time i saw her, told her if she ever ran away from home she was to run to my house.  I have always said that Legacy should have been named after the Hallmark cards character, i think her name is Maxine, the old broad with curlers and fuzzy slippers that tells it like it is.  That is Legacy.  She likes Mountain Dew (but she doesn't get that here,) whole bananas, and smoking.   At the burn barrel that is.  Whenever something is being burned, Legacy will park next to the burn barrel with her chin on the rim and inhale the smoke for as long as anything is smoldering.  And if she likes you she will lick you like a dog.  She is a wise Grande Dame, and is the Great Equalizer in the doe yard.  I adore this goat.  All the more because she is my beloved Chickory Blossom's grandmother.   But she is something of a tart.  A hussy, if you will.

One of the reasons she came here is that Susan's place is a buck rich environment, and we really didn't want to tax Legacy's body with breeding and milk production.  Best laid plans, and all that.  Last fall Moon jumped the fence, and there was a very short little rendezvous.  But apparently it was long enough. 

I wasn't even sure she was bred until the last couple of days, and all of a sudden this morning she was in labor.

It was a very difficult birth, the baby was not only breech, but upside down, with the umbilical cord wrapped around it twice.  Ellie May scrubbed up, gloved up, and went in to try to reposition him, but that wasn't happening, so she delivered him as he presented. 

We are delighted to announce that the 8.5# buck (as yet to be named, we need to check and see if there is a Slipknot, Texas) is doing well, as is Legacy, although she is rather weary at the moment.  We are plying her with treats and attention, and she seems content with this.

Yet another exciting day at Tails Up Homestead.

Weeeeeeeee Weeeee Weeeeee Weeeeeeeeeeeee <<<<<waving my pinwheels>>>>