Update on Lilly & her baby Girl
 

Just popping in to let all our new friends know that Lilly and her baby are doing wonderful:)

Baby girl had her first official vet check today. She also got her tail docked & her dew claws done. No one ever told me just how horrible that experience was going to be:eek: There must be a kinder or less painful way to go about this tail docking???
Would maybe tieing something (elastic or string) and cutting off blood supply for a day or two prior be any better? I'm not sure if it's the same thing or not, but that's how we did our lambs tails & casterated our cows on the farm. I'm sure that hurt too... but at least we didn't hear them screaming like this poor little girl did. It broke my heart & I sincerely started to cry at one point hearing her screaming out like that. I know it only lasted about 10-15 minutes... but it seemed like forever, and she's still wimpering off & on hours later.

On a happier note, we are trying to deside on a name for this little (big) girl, and I am torn between two. I like Emily for her, but believe it or not Molasses is kinda starting to grow on me too :rolleyes:

We already have a Lilly of course, then Shylah, Abby, Dixie, Kya, Tucker, Little-Man & Lightning. I'm thinking an Emily would fit in nicely, since it doesn't really sound like any of the others... although niether does molassas 'lol'

She has grown a ton since her first appearance late Sat night. She started at 125-130 grams & is now a whopping 222 grams tonight:eek: I believe that converts to just about 7 3/4 ounces from her original 4 5/8 oz. She is definatey taking full advantage of having all that milk to herself & becoming a very pudgy little girl.
We'll put up more pics soon :)