Goats, Goats, and More Goats!

Since Plato the sheep passed away in November, poor little George has been so lonely. Pretty much he hung out by the fence in the corner, next to the sheep next door. I thought about finding a new home for him. Then I had a better thought. More goats. Lots of goats are a good thing, right? I mean, look how well behaved George has been. Nothing like those old Bill and Hillary goats we had once. They were bad goats.

So, I decided to get cashmere goats. Nice soft wool to blend with some of the sheep wool I have sitting around and make nice blended yarns. We found some nearby for not too much. We wanted to get two, but ended up with three. On March 23 we went to pick them up. We brought them home in the pick-up, backed it up into the back field, opened it up and let them out. Within minutes they found George and made friends. He was so-o-o happy - doing his happy dance all over the place, and running around crazy. For a short while George was the head guy, as demonstrated by the highest position on the board pile, but within a few days the big new guy, Capricorn, became the leader. Capricorn is a wether male, about 4 years old. He is 3/4 cashmere and 1/4 angora. In the photos he is shedding, but we were finally able to catch him the other day and comb him, so he looks much better now.
Then there are the two little girls. The little white one is Eos. She is just about a year old I think, pure cashmere. We missed out on combing her - she was losing her wool when we got her and we haven't really been able to catch her yet, but it's all off. She is pretty brave though - she has eaten out of my hand a couple times. Then the other one is another little girl, also about a year old. She is dark - black and beige-ish. She is EXTREMELY shy. She will take some work to catch. I think she still has some good wool on her. Her name is Nyx. She has a little white star on her forehead. She's the one hiding behind the tree in the picture above.
You can see her better in the feeding photos. I have to give each one of them their own dish, or it just turns into a butt-head party and only the big guy would get anything to eat.

So I think we're in for some fun times!

Here's some more photos...