Babies!

Snowball finally gave us two babies on June 8 (Monday).  Both are  boys; it does appear to be a boy year.  The people from whom we bought our buckling (who is not yet home) had a large percentage of boys this year as well.

The one on the left is Tuvok, the one on the right is Neelix.  Tuvok is actually almost white (very, very pale fawn if you look closely) and Neelix is almost a butterscotch color - reminiscent of Snowball's mom, who was named Wheat.  

Right now they are bottle-fed three times a day.  Until this morning I was making the bottles up with 8 ounces of milk, and they weren't quite finishing them.  Yesterday they showed great gains in both bottle-feeding ability and appetite.  They finished their 8 ounce bottles rapidly and with gusto, for both the afternoon and evening feedings.  This morning I made two 12-ounce bottles, and they finished them quickly.  For the next couple of days I'll do three 12-ounce feedings a day, then switch to twice-a-day full-bottle (16-ounce plus) feedings.

Still waiting on Dory, the brown doe, to kid.  Snowball is doing great on the milking stand - from one and a half to two quarts at a time, on twice-a-day milkings, just a few days after kidding.  And she's so well-behaved on the milking stand.  This is her second freshening, and she's definitely a keeper.