What's In A Name?

Sooooo I'm kind of a sucker for my daughter (she's 7) and agreed to let her help name our first batch of does. Which means they were all going to end up with Disney princess names. I negotiated and convinced her to use variations to make them more tolerable, so we have Bella, Briar, and Jasmine.

We then acquired a buck who was already named Swashbuckler, and another doe and her wether brother who had registered names but not herd names. The wether is registered as Ready to Rumble, so my husband dubbed him Pretty Boy (Floyd). His sister became Laila (after Muhammad Ali's daughter).

We previously had two other wethers named Brutus and Cletus. Brutus was a big bully and earned his name. Cletus was named (by my husband) after a recurring hillbilly character on The Simpsons. He was, by far, the most moronic goat I have ever seen. He was an embarrassment to goats everywhere.

My milk mama was named Vashti before I bought her. Though I know it means "beautiful", and she is beautiful, the name just didn't fit her. She became Gracie Darling after I had her for a week or two.

This past spring I hand raised a herd of 18 baby goats for a local farmer. My favorite of the babies was Mocha Bean.... but the farmer would not part with her. When I learned that Gracie's daughter (who I met when I bought Gracie) was headed to slaughter that Saturday because she did not sell, I scooped her up on Thursday. She is a brown girl, with only subtle variations in her coloring. I named her Coco Bean, and call her "My Little Bean", and "My Little Chunk of Chocolate."

Paloma is one of the babies I found on the farmers barn floor when I went to feed and milk. Still wet from her Mama, she had the most exacting, clean lines of color I've ever seen. The black stripe down her back looked like a brush stroke... she looked like Picasso had painted her, so I gave her the name of Picasso's daughter. But the running joke is that she *thinks* her name is "I Love You Paloma Picasso" because that is what I say to her more than just saying her name. She actually comes to it now.

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I like old-fashioned names so the girls (most of them anyways) have those types of names:
Gwendolyn
Isabell
Olivia
Daisy
Gracie
Libby
Zoey
Tye-Dye (not old fashioned by her coat looks like a tye-dyed t-shirt)
Amelia
Abby

The last turn girls were born last spring and I've decided to use a different letter each year to help me track who was born when. Last year it was "A", this year will be "B"

Cookie got her name cause her mom was Sugar, and Cookie's daughter got named Candy..
Pawnee got her name because I first thought pony had named her poneez but that is pon's herd name...so she got registered as PONEEZ PRETTY PAWNEE
Pebbles...well she is a black with white spots, and then Pearl came and she is pure white.
Heidi is part of Heidi's registered name and she is like 7 years so we just kept it, BUT now that her hair has grown back in she has a big C on top of her head.
Shaq is short for his registered name
Monkey is short for his name
Bam-Bam I got same time I got Pebbles
Skittles got named so because he was so skittish and its a sweet name to go with Cookie and Candy...but lately I have been calling him little sh@t
so thats it for now...

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My goats have pretty boring names unless I got them from someone else who already named them.
Except Belly- she is my only painted Boer. Her registered name is somethign Arabella but I just called her "Brown Butt" for obvious reasons when she first came.
Then she tried running through an open 12' gate rather than around it. Being of large belly, that is where she got stuck. But her legs kept pumping so she swung with the gate in a pivot around the hinges. Since banging at the end of her turn didn't stop her, she eventually popped free. And into her forever name "Belly."
My only excuse for Sally Pally is that there were too many goat babies and not enough time.

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