Baby Goats

Well I'm back at the cheese farm and the baby goats have arrived. They are wonderful little creatures. At first, they seemed a little less affectionate than most puppies or kittens, but they've come around, especially since they've picked up on the fact that I'm responsible for their food (we've moved them away from their mothers, so we can turn the rich, postnatal milk into cheese). Now they start baying whenever they see me and have gotten the idea that my person, not the milk bucket, is the source of the milk. It makes you feel special and it's ridiculously cute, but it does get annoying sometimes when you're always having to turn them around and point their noses in the right direction.

We've moved them to a field with a nice big rock formation that they love to run around on. One recent day, I took the opportunity to do a photo shoot.


Here they are playing on the rock formation in their field. You can see the yurt in the background.
Proof that baby goats like me.

Baby goats like to suck on fingers...

Baby goats (and pigs, if you care to know) sleep together to keep warm. They also do so in order to get humans to elicit sounds like "awwww". Here they are sleeping under an overhang of the rock formation.

Here we have a goat standing almost regally on a rock...

Last but not least, a nice little video to give another dimension to what baby goats are like.