I milked for the first time this year this morning.  What a joy to see and feel such lovely udders!  Violet has an amazing first freshening udder, soft, nice medial and large orifices.  I didn't milk her out but was quite pleased with how quick it was to get what I wanted.   Bonus - she stood like a champion for her first time on the stanchion.  

Dassy is a second freshener and I could see and feel the improvement in capacity.  She has a lovely udder to milk, large orifices and nice length of teat for hand milking.  I also didn't milk her out, but I could feel she had much more to give.  Her rear attachments are a little high, and teats could be a little more on center but they were basically plumb despite her being a little on the overfull side.

Once we have some consistently warm days I will give the girls their summer haircuts and take some better pictures.  But I couldn't resist taking these this morning on their first overnight fill. 

GotKids? Ultrasound service came by today to check the remaining six does that weren't bred the last time she was here at the end of February.  The BEST news was that Golden Era Made Me Blush is finally bred!!  She is carrying at least two kids and will be due the middle of July!   Snowfall is also bred and due right around the 4th of July.   Dahlia is probably due near the end of July and Levana and Vita werre "short bred" meaning they were only 28-30 days bred which puts them kidding in mid August.   Mosiac was still not bred so she will be back to living with Tide.

Currently we have 4 doe kids and 1 wether for sale.  All of them have blue eyes and the wether has moonspots too!  Pictures and pedigree info on our sale page!

Friday the 13th turned out to be a lucky day for us on the ranch with TWO sets of TRIPLETS born that evening.   Shawnea & Midnight had 1 doe and two bucks, unfortunately one of the bucks didn't make it.  All three kids had blue eyes.  Tanya Tucker and High Tide had three beautiful blue-eyed doe kids.

This kidding took us by surprise and the does were not in the kidding stall so the babies were a bit messy when we discovered them.  Because it was so late we let them be overnight, but brought them in for a warm bath and blow dry the next morning.

  All Here they are getting cleaned up.  We will be posting more pictures once the weather is a little warmer and we can take them outside.  All of them will be for sale when weaned. 

March 27th proved to be a busy day on the ranch.  We were just getting back from vacation when we were notified that two of our does were in labor.   We got home about an hour before Dassy gifted us with twins out of Tide. (pictured on the left).  The buckskin has blue eyes and has not been named yet.  The lighter colored one is tentatively being called "Calico" because that is how I keep referring to her.

Then just before midnight first freshner Violet produced twin blue-eyed doe kids out of Midnight.   They have tentatively been named Wags Ranch Midnight's Blue Star and Wags Ranch Midnight's Blue Velvet.

Two down, only 11 more to go! 

Introducing our first moon-spotted goat, a lovely 2 year old doe from Coast Wind farms.  She comes from a long line of goats with moon spots and has a lovely pedigree too.   Looking forward to having some blue-eyed moon spotted kids out of her next spring.  Now to decide who the lucky sire will be....

Introducing Lil Bleats S Double the Kisses (aka Dutch) who was born on 6/7/17.  He flew in Friday evening from Colorado Springs and we couldn't be more excited to have another Castle Rock Guy Noir grandson in our herd!  Check out the buck page for his full pedigree.   His dam Castle Rock Mon Cheri scored an 88 on her first freshening LA and we are looking forward to seeing what her second freshening LA score is in a few week.   Below are his two grand-dams.

Poppy Patch Evel Knievel ("K") is now at 3HenFarm.  Where my friend Rebecca is spoiling him.  I now have 3HenFarm WF Ginger who is out of Wags Ranch Pumpkin Pi who was out of my foundation doe MR Ligtning Mame' who passed away last year.   She is a yearling and will be bred this fall.
 
Now to the brag portion - Pumpkin Pi scored an 88 on this year's LA and her two half sister's out of Mame' did well too, with Angel also scoring an 88 and her litter-mate sister Myrtle scoring a 90!   These are the first Wags Ranch does to be LA'd that I am aware of and I couldn't be more proud.    We had hoped to do LA this year ourselves but a promotion at my off farm job had me working double shifts for a few months and I just didn't have time to prepare.   Next year, hopefully will we be able to get everyone LA'd.

And in other news all goats here on the ranch at the end of June tested negative for CAE/CL/Johnes. 

And finally, Bristol Blue should be kidding around the 19th of August.  She is bred to K and I am hoping for some blue-eyed kids out of that pairing.  And Alex's pregnancy test came back positive, so we are expecting kids out of her and Midnight sometime in late September.  
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Three healthy, handsome boys for Levana and Evel Knievel on 5/6/2017. Of course we were hoping for at least one doe kid, but at least one of these handsome fellas will be staying on at Wags Ranch as a future herd sire.    Only the champagne and gold colored buckling got his dam's blue eyes. 

Levana's udder continues to impress and I am looking forward to milking her in a couple of weeks.   Normally with triplets I wait three weeks to start milking, but even at this point in time it is easy to see she will easily handle nursing triplets and milking.

This is our last spring kidding for the season but we are hopefully that Bristol, Alex and Blush will be presenting us with kids in August and September. 

About 10am this morning Emmylou presented us with two very large blue-eyed doe kids out of Tide.     Moana (which means deep ocean) on the right was the first born kid.  Her slightly smaller sister Cordelia (daughter of the sea) is on the left. At this point we are thinking we will probably o retain both of them.