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Still no baby goats - really hoping today is the day (because tomorrow is all day Zoom meetings)

The plus side of having to go out to the barn at 2am to check on pregnant goats is that there were faint auroras (which actually must have been pretty bright just to compete with the nearly-fully moon), and I heard 2 great horned owls calling back and forth to each other.

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No baby goats yet, but it's nice to see all the animals enjoying the warm sun. That goat in the middle of the picture using the other goat as a pillow might be the most blissfully comfortable creature in the world.

A hay-filled barnyard with many animals in the background eating (including a small brown horse, and several brown and black goats). In the foreground are several sleeping white goats. One goat is resting her head on the back of another goat. The goat resting her head looks completely, blissfully relaxed and asleep.
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...still no baby goats

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Guess what? Still no baby goats.

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Still no baby goats.

But the livestock guardian dog found THE BEST spot in the whole yard to guard from. What a good dog!

A view of a farmyard with a tall wooden fence and a metal-sided building, under a cloudy sky. In the background, there's a very large hay bale, an approximately 5 foot tall cylinder, with a yellowish dog majestically sitting on the very top. Below him are a whole bunch of brown and white goats milling around, along with a tiny white horse.
Same view as before, slightly different angle, now the dog is laying down in a very alert position, using his very tall vantage point to look over the tall wooden fence.
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...still no baby goats. But it's actually been kind of nice to force myself to go outside and check on the very pregnant one every hour or so during all these meetings!

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augh still no baby goats. Probably will have them at 2am.

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Still no babies! That poor mama goat is huge and her udder is so big it is painful to look at.

Starting to get a bit worried, but she's not quite late enough for it to be likely there are any problems (also there are no vets at all anywhere around here who work on goats, so I'm on my own whatever happens ☹️ )

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Still no babies.

But I did get to watch the llama and the livestock guardian dog having an extremely chill disagreement about whether this hay bale is a comfy watchtower or a delicious snack.

A view into a straw-filled barnyard bordered by a tall wooden fence and a metal-sided building, in the centre is a large hay bale with a large yellowish dog laying on top, looking very comfortable. There is also a large brownish fuzzy llama eating from the side of the hay bale the dog is laying on. The sky is blue, and it's quite sunny.
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STILL no babies! I was so sure she was going to have them last night I turned on the heat lamp for her. Only to find a very comfortable, very pregnant goat, basking under the heat lamp when I checked on her at 2am and 6am (man I am tired...) Last year one of my goats was 5 days late and all the babies had severe nutritional problems, which I worked really hard to not have this year...ugh farming is hard.

Anyway...the baby chicks are doing great! (Definitely in their "awkward stage" though)

A bunch of partially-feathered chicks in a straw filled pen. There are a whole bunch of different colours: most of the yellow-fuzz chicks have grown white feathers with black speckles, the black-fuzz chicks are a combination of fully black and black with white speckles, and the orange-fuzz chicks are getting reddish feathers.
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I'm reasonably sure the mama goat is *finally* in labour! I'm going to go sit in the barn with my tablet and read a neutrino PhD thesis while keeping her company and making sure everything goes smoothly.

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL: WE HAVE BABY GOATS!!!

Oh my gosh they're so cute

A tiny white baby goat with very small ears in profile, standing in a straw-filled barn stall
A tiny black goat with white and brown highlights looking directly at the camera, standing on straw. He has tiny white ears.
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Babies and mama are looking great (the mama passed the placenta with no trouble, yay).

They will get spoiled with a heat lamp tonight (even though it's not even getting below freezing tonight), and tomorrow night I think they'll be just fine with snuggle-warmth.

I think I can safely sleep through the night tonight without a 2am barn check, but I have 2 more goats due in the next few days, so I'll make sure to fully enjoy my uninterrupted night's sleep tonight

A long-eared white mama goat laying in clean straw, next to a tiny white baby goat and a tiny black baby goat, both of which have very small ears. They're under a heat lamp, so the whole picture is rather red-looking.
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