Each year we do a dozen or so Put the Babies to Bed nights so people can learn a bit about our nightly routine and have a chance to snuggle the kids! We have two farm books we read at these events based on goats at our farm! Thought you might like to eavesdrop on story time! Last night we read Sweet Pea is free to Sweet Pea and her babies and the dozen new kids who are less than a week old! Years ago, Stella From Tennessee who watched the live cam and YouTube sent us pajamas and sweaters for goats born on nights below zero. Baby goats can lose their sucking reflex if their body temp drops and it is essential that doesn’t happen because they get all their immunity from the first milk called colostrum. (Human babies get some in advance from the placenta.) after 15 years, people from all over including Paula from Massachusetts have sent us new cute pjs! These nights give us a chance to use them all and have some fun teaching people about goats! The most unexpected part of babies to bed nights is that it is almost always mostly adults! We thought it may be parents and or grandparents and their kids when we designed it but how sweet that adult couples and friends sign up to enjoy the goats in this adorable way together. everyone needs a good story time now and then. Apparently even the wild deer, who stops by often as we are reading. I think she would like to be one of the goatherd.
