Celebrating Cygni's 5th birthday

Happy 5th birthday to my Cygni!

Cyggi Pig is one of my two boer goats here, and she is one of the two goats I have rescued.

I was called out to someone's property when their doe was in labor, and I checked on both the doe and the doe's one baby. Both were fine and good. Right before I was going to leave, I noticed: about 100 feet away was a tiny little blob. It was a baby still in its sack.

I rushed over, ripped the sack open, and unfortunately the baby was not breathing. After performing CPR, I managed to detect a heartbeat and get her breathing. It was pretty clear near immediately that this baby had some issues - very likely some sort of brain damage from oxygen deprivation, but she also had incredibly severe entropian and was completely blind. She was unable to nurse from her dam, who was aggressive towards her anyway.

I told the owner of this baby that it needed to be a bottle kid and put on colostrum right away. I was informed that nature would just take its course. This was not a person that I trusted to do good by their animals; in fact it was someone that regularly just had dead animals littering their front yard literally constantly. I asked if I could take her instead. I was told no. I did it anyway.

Cygni came home with me. I got her on the bottle, but the first few months of her life were interesting. We tried a procedure for her entropian... which only kind of worked. She still to this day seems completely blind in daylight, and able to see slightly at night. She bonded very quickly to my other baby YanYan at the time, and YanYan was a great guide for Cygni.

Today, she is a five year doe that is more or less useless and a pasture pet. I have no qualms about breeding her. She is healthy. I likely will when I find a boer or spanish breeder that actually blood tests their herd and cares about biosecurity, but if that time never comes, no worries.

Isn't she just so stunning too?! Look at her beautiful coat! Cygni is very sweet, but does not enjoy much affection. She loves having "me time". Just her, laying in the middle of the field, enjoying some good chomps of fresh grass. She makes what I lovingly call "happy noises" all hours of the day while she relaxes, which are these sort of rhythmic grunts that sound similar to humming.

I hope these 5 years have been very good for you so far, Cyggi Pig, and I hope for many many more.