Milk, Lots of Milk

Roxy is now being milked once a day, and she's giving a half gallon or more of milk every time. Not bad at all for the winter. It is interesting the way that her udder collapses when I've milked her. First it looks like a ripe berry, then like an empty glove. It actually doesn't look like she has very much milk in her in the first picture, but she did. 3/4 gallons of it, actually.

Empty - back view

Full - back view

3/4 gallons of milk - all from one milking!

Picture day! :D

Today I decided to take my goats' photographs, and look how well they turned out:

The Great Maia

A  badly focused close-up of her nose. Stop smelling the camera, girl!

 Yes, sometimes my goats are more curious than photogenic. After trying for a long time to get them to sit in one place long enough for me to take a picture, I bribed them with alfalfa. Behold the result:

Hey! Come back here!

They bring it under the sleeping shelf to eat it. :-\ I put some more on top of the shelf, thinking that this might work better:

Ain't Roxy purdy?

This will have to do for today. Maybe they will be more cooperative some other day.