Raining (Goat) Kids

Reader Contribution by Maggie Bonham

“Goat Baby Alert! Goat Baby Alert!” I woke up to my husband’s shouts.

“Which one?” I asked, but he disappeared and hurried back down to the barn. Just as I barely finished dressing, he had brought two very wet, shivering kids with their umbilical cords still dragging into the house.

“It’s Lulu,” my husband said.

“Lulu?” My pregnant Sable doe hadn’t looked that pregnant. In fact, I wouldn’t have guessed that she was pregnant except her udder had filled a few days before. Two kids – two big, healthy, heavy kids – wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. Where in the heck did she hide them?

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