Baby Goat Born on Sunday Evening

It been a tumultuous week around our house...a lot has been going on.  We have been occupied with things WAY out of our "normal- normal" regiment of life.  You can only imagine our delight to see the birth of a little goat Sunday evening as we drove out the driveway into town.


We actually thought there was two goats born.  We didn't stop to see for sure, I mean we stopped to see obviously, but we didn't go into the gate and do the eye drops, check the gender kind of thing.

The next day, in the morning when we went to look, there was only one.  It could have been that we were mistaken... there might have been only the one.  It's possible that what we thought was a second goat was simply the placenta.  But it is also possible that a bird of prey may have carried off one.  We do not know.  We do know their are hawks and eagles here, as well as owls in the night.

We made some friends that evening, some people who were simply driving by when they too, saw the little goat giving birth.

Thinking there were two kids born we decided we would name our newborns after them...Cory and Chris.  It was nearly perfect because the names were rather unisex... could be used for either boy or boys or girl.  And the human counterparts... were female-Cory; male- Chris.  IF the goats were tow boys,,, the names would work.  If the goats were two girls it would work too. and if we have one of each, we had it pegged,  but now, with only one goat we had a bit of a dilemma.  Which name...which sex...would gat which name and which name would we pick?

After thinking about it for a moment and wondering why our animals have human names, I  came up with a name  I rather like.   It's a a combination of the two...  and it makes me think of singing praises to God for new life.... The name of our newest arrival is going to be ....

Coris.  (Chorus)