It's getting easier - but there are still kids who haven't cottoned on how to bottle feed. We need three compartments in the kid shed really, not fed, feeding area, and fed. But there's only room for two, unfed, and feeding and fed area combined. This means that the greedy ones climb all over you while you're trying to feed the reluctant feeders - which is great fun but very tiresome.
I've also developed that age-old complaint - kid feeders head. This results from feeding the kids in the stable with a very low roof - which isn't fun but is equally tiresome.
We've started to split labours - the goats are getting better at being milked - so generally Jussi does the milking and me and Ailsa do the feeding. There's one particularly ticklish goat - Matilda - who really doesn't like being milked. Jussi now has a two track mind - milking machines and Matilda curry.
I'll try to get piccies posted today - but I keep leaving the camera up at the croft - and the batteries are flat.
* It's a spoonerism that's somehow strangely appropriate whichever way you read it..
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