What you may ask is a buckling? Well, for some folks, it is a cute little baby boy goat, who runs around jumping on everything in sight and just looking plain adorable.
For me, it started off that way when our mama goat Spice gave birth to twin boys in April. They looked just like their daddy Randy, see my post Randy the Goat vs the Feed Bag, and still do, but they are just like two three year olds with 4 legs, ALWAYS getting in to some kind of trouble, and always bleating “I’m Hungry!!!” even though they eat non stop.
They bang their heads, and not gently, against mom’s udder and this action is what stimulates the milk to come down. When they are both nursing at the same time, it is a wonder that they don’t knock mom right off her feet, but she just goes on about her business, placidly chewing her cud.
They were so cute at about a week old when they started trying to jump up on a small 2×4…they would leap and miss or fall off and it truly was adorable and entertaining.
When they were a few weeks older, we moved them to a pen with mom and Auntie Lullabelle, our other doe, and they started jumping on their feed buckets and tried to jump on and over Auntie….she was not thrilled. When an adult goat has had about enough of a young’uns messing about, they drop their heads and give them a gently, or not so gentle depending on the circumstances, head butt.
But I digress. They just can’t seem to help getting in trouble. If they are not out eating grass, they are jumping on something, or getting in the turkey pen and eating their food, of losing sight of mom and then bleating mournfully as if they were lost forever,
And then there was yesterday. I went out early and let all four goats out to graze. Not much later, I looked out the window, and there were the two bucklings up on the hood of Hubby’s BMW…needless to say, not good. So they have been in time out since then, and are bleating mournfully….did I mention that they do that very well?
Until next time, Happy Trails
