She fooled me!

[ozark_jewels]

Ok, Mattie Girl was exposed to a small mini buckling before I bought her. Didn't think he could reach. Then she was put in with my Boer buck, Junior for two months. I never saw any activity and it was very late in the breeding season.
She is a half Fainter/Half Boer doe and is a little larger than your average pygmy. She is already round and low in build and I couldn't see if she was looking pregnant or not. I kept checking her rear....no changes. I bumped her....nothing. Her udder was always rather fuller looking and it didn't change. Her last possible due date came and went and I had decided that she wasn't bred at all. Very disappointing.
Well, I was in the trailer reading one Sunday afternoon and I was half listening to the goats talking to each other outside. When suddenly a noise that I am very familiar with but completely DID NOT fit at this time, reached my ears. New baby goat noises. No way! I went out and Mattie Girl was leading two little bucklings up out of the woods. They were obviously a couple days old and had not just been born. She had them tucked away in the woods, she had no discharge at all(or else the LGDs kept her clean), and went out with the herd to eat every time they went. One sneaky little doe!! I thought that does couldn't sneak up on me anymore....well, she showed me.

Here she is with her two bucklings out of Junior.

[BothFeet]

Awwwwww! They are so sweet!

[powderhooves]

Oh so cute!! Thank you for sharing

[jBlaze]

That's what I call lucky, how cool.

[nehimama]

I'd never have thought a goat could fool YOU, Emily! Congratultions on the new little guys.

NeHi

[ozark_jewels]

Ha-Ha! Well you see, my polite thoughtful girls would have told me......this is my sisters goat though and she just doesn't care.
No, I long ago decided that if there is something a goat *can* do, they eventually will do!