The biggest news Tangled Flocks has to ofer is the arrival of our very first, home-grown cashmere goat, Maverick, or Mavi for short. He was born at 8 pm on Friday June 11, a very civilized hour. We were having a farewell dinner at the farm for the aunts and uncles, down from Upper Canada, and had just finished dessert and were having a little sing-along with Sadie, when we were alerted to the fact that Legacy was making odd noises.
"I think she's having a baby," we were told, by the aunt who had gone out to take a few more photos of the horses on the lawn before dark.
We all tumbled out to the barn, and sure enough, the baby's front feet were already out. Within a quarter hour, and with an audience of sixteen, out slid a little silver buckling - the spitting image of his Mom. He was born without incident - the only catch was we were missing a towel in all the excitement so we dried him off with the hem of my skirt.
Mavi is the first offspring of Lakota and Legacy, last year's bottle babies from Cornerstone Farm in River John, Nova Scotia. It seems like just yesterday that these two were hanging out in our living rooms and beds, needing warm milk every four hours. Now they are starting a whole new generation.
Mavi was a big pile of jello, wobbly as could be for the first few hours, but, now, at two weeks, he is a sturdy little fellow who loves to chase chickens and already has well sprouted charcoal grey horns.
