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Eleven

July 10, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

I noticed last week that Eleven had a lump on her neck. I watched it for a day, it grew. It felt like an abscess so I called our wonderful […]

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Animals, shepherding

Dave

June 29, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

This is Dave He is an Anglo-nubian buck who has already fathered a few kids. He is hopefully going to be the baby-daddy for next year’s kids and thus is […]

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Animals, shepherding

Last Dance

March 17, 2018by Claire 18 Comments

Yesterday was a glorious day and the baby goats spent it outdoors playing on the climbing objects and dancing. This was good, because as fate would have it, it was […]

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Animals, shepherding

Good Friends Get It Sorted

March 13, 2018by Claire 4 Comments

I remembered two important things yesterday: dog metacam is good for inflammation and pain relief in goats, if you can’t get to a vet; positive encouragement from a friend can […]

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Animals, Food Truck, shepherding

Be Prepared ….

March 3, 2018by Claire 2 Comments

It might look at times as if I am over-prepared – what with the little goat coats in two different sizes, the bottles of ewe boost, tubs of glucose and […]

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Animals, shepherding

Goat Gymnastics

February 19, 2018by Claire 10 Comments

It’s been weeks since there has been a baby goat update here – sorry – there are more regular updates on the goats on my instagram account. Anyway, all three […]

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Animals, shepherding

Goats in Coats

February 6, 2018by Claire 10 Comments

I had bought the coats, so it was inevitable that the baby goats would wear the coats. Obviously the coats will fit the goats only for a few days, but […]

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Animals, shepherding

Hindsight

February 3, 2018by Claire 6 Comments

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Last night I got up at 2am to check on the babies – they were fine. I then checked at 7am. All was going well. […]

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Animals, shepherding

And Then There were Eleven

February 2, 2018by Claire 15 Comments

Between the 2am and 4am checks Elsie had triplets. There was no sign when I checked just before 2, but when James went at 4.15 there were 3 new little […]

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Animals, shepherding

Waiting

February 1, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

A long day teaching in London followed by a night waiting for Elsie to kid. I thought she was close to giving birth when I left yesterday as her ligaments […]

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My other life, shepherding

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