What did you do today?

[Nanno]

Today I heard from the BioTracking lab and we have good news! Delilah is officially "in a family way". She was unable to get pregnant last year despite several breedings to different bucks and I thought we might have to intervene with hormone shots this year. But nope! She got pregnant on the first breeding and will be due around April 10th! That's very early for us, but I figured we'd better get a jump on this one in case she needed a little help.

So far I'm feeling hopeful that Petunia is bred as well. She saw a buck on December 7th, so it will be a few more days until I know for sure if she took. She should have begun cycling today (her cycles have been 21 days this year), but I'll give her till the end of this week before I start feeling quite confident. The nice thing about Petunua is that she lets me know beyond question if she's still open. She SCREAMS when she's in heat and won't shut up for 2 days. Last time she came in heat I knew about it before I got out of bed that morning--"I NEED A MAA-AA-AAA-NNN!!!" was the earsplitting and oft repeated demand that blared from the goat pen, which currently sits on the other side of a field from my house. Her voice sure carries! She wants to make sure that every buck within ten miles is aware that she's available.