Once upon a time there was a goat named Lacey who gave birth to the littlest goat you ever did see.
Lacey decided she had way better things to do than feed her littlest baby goat, who weighed in at only 15 ounces.
A kind, amazing, & gorgeous woman scooped up the littlest goat and brought her into the house. The littlest goat was happy to be warm and cared for.
“Thank you.”, it said in its littlest goat voice.
The littlest goat couldn’t stand yet or even eat yet, but she could sleep cuter than any human baby could, so the woman kept feeding her and caring for her in hopes that the littlest goat would regain her strength.
The next day, LO’ & BEHOLD, a miracle! The littlest goat could finally stand! (Though she didn’t seem too happy about it.) The littlest goat missed her mother.
The woman brought the littlest goat out to her mother and Lacey welcomed her back with a big ‘ol mother goat kiss.
The other baby goats DID NOT like the littlest goat.
“Who do you think you are?” “Stop being so adorable!” they yelled, as they rammed the littlest goat into the fence.
The woman hurriedly scooped up the littlest goat and brought her again back into the house.
The next day, the woman brought the littlest goat back to her mother and her mother took one look at her and walked away.
The littlest goat was devastated.
(Don’t worry! This story has a happy ending!) The woman took the baby goat inside, wiped it’s littlest goat tears and loved it and cared for it as her own. She fed it all through the night, her children played with it all during the day, & the family read the littlest goat her favorite littlest goat books.
The littlest goat grew big and strong and became just like the woman’s own children.
Sometimes, the littlest goat was silly.
Sometimes the littlest goat was naughty.
But most of the time, the littlest goat was the most adorable thing you ever did see.
And it loved humans with all of its littlest heart.
I love this and agree it should be book. Darling pictures, nice choice of words. On Netflix I found a film about a weeping camel, a true story about a mother camel who refused to nurse her baby. Two young brothers travel a long way to get special musicians to come do a ceremony. Before it’s over the mother camel cries and all but says she’s sorry — and she nurses her lovely little boy. This is a documentary. . .. I volunteer with Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care which rehabs orphaned bear cubs Fifteen last year. No new kids yet, so only a few critters on the cameras. On their FB page you can see a clip of the last two being released. God bless!
I hope by now you have published this as a children’s book. I would so buy ii for my grandson that will be born in August.
I want to hear more about the ” little goat”. Where is she now? What has she been up to ? We need answers.
Hey John! Yes, I will include an update soon!
Just too amazingly cute, I could cuddle that little goat all day long, sooo precious!
What a beautiful story… thank you so much.
Would love to follow how the little goat is going..
I just bought an acre today andsaw your littlest goat story. My first goat search. I,m sold! Can’t wait!!
Cindy
Oh my gosh! Congrats!
My children and I loved this beautiful story. We raised 5 chicks last year that fill us up with fun and learning and now these gorgeous creatures got me thinking about adding to the mini farm family. Thank you (from Victoria, B.C. Canada)
Such a cute little story! Did you ever do a follow up post on this littlest goat? Please link because I would love to read the update! Thank you!
I just read this to my seven month old granddaughter and she smiled the cutest little smiles at each littlest goat picture.
I think she is going to want a goat some day!
I have a little goat to my friend had bought a pygmy Nigerian cross and she was pregnant when he got her. Well Nov.1, 2014 she had twins One was normal size and the other very very small the mother rejected him so I brought home with me. I weighed him at about a week old and he was about a pound and a half he is now almost 5 weeks old and weighs 4 pounds. I can’t weight until he is grown to see how big he will be. He is so adorable I call him donkey cause he looks like donkey off of the movie Sheirk.
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A cousin and his dog died from histoplasmosis, caught from wild bird droppings. Tests will tell you how aggressive treatments need to be.
OMG!!! That is just too much. You got me crying and giggling at the same time. I can’t wait to read this to my daughter. So so so sweet… Thank you for sharing.
I cried all the way to the end. That was so sweet!
I would of done the same thing, brought it inside cared for & fed it and brought it out to see mom and out side for a little air and sights. How precious, you did the right thing, it wouldn’t of made it on it’s own otherwise!! Gotta love animals – and we do…….. Cute story!!
I just read this AFTER reading your post on the goat milk…what an ADORABLE littlest goat, which I’m assuming is probably a somewhat bigger goat by now! Definitely book worthy material right there! 🙂
DaNelle !!!!!!
You couldnt honestly make this a childrens book. It is absolutley the sweetest story ever !!!!!!! I would LOVE wih all my heart to own a baby Goat. Omg, Im soo Jealous !!!
And this white baby it the most beaitful baby goat Ive ever seen.
I am from Ca. I cannot have farm animals where I live. I use to live in Tucson while in HS.
what part of Az do u live in ??
Thanx again for sharing this truly amazing sotry. Plzz Plzzz Plzzzz Publish this !!! If your Not interested in doing that, May I ?? Listing you as the Author of coarse !!!
Tracy
Thanks Tracy! I am trying to approach publishers to turn this into a book!
As a former librarian I would urge you to publish the littlest goat. It is a very cute story.
What did you name her?
We sold her, but I’m going to do a followup story on her!
I was wondering if we could see updated pictures of the sweet goat. She should be grown by now. Pretty please 🙂
That story just made me smile.
that was so cute
i say “BOOK HER, DANNO, BOOK HER…..WRITE THE BOOK
The sweetest little goat story ever!!!! BAH!
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What a wonderful story. I’d like a book please! A series would be ideal. Thanks so much.
just had to add my two cents regarding the baby goat story. PLEASE publish it! i can think of several children right off that i’d love to send a copy of this book to! my own tiny tiny kitten runt was the sweetest of the bunch… all black, including whiskers…. i named her minnie, as in mouse…. but really because she was so ‘mini’…! kept her, and she’s still tiny, but the bravest and sweetest of them all! best of luck to you and yours, and know there are many out here in readership land who love to read and follow your stories! 🙂
Thank you thank you! I will definitely look into it!
I almost cannot take the sweetness! I absolutely LOVE baby goats!!! I just want to cuddle them and watch them hop around outside (and inside, when their little hooves make clicky clacky sounds! swoon!). Thank you for sharing this littlest one with us. 🙂
This was such a cute and sweet story. Another question: I’m a single mom (one 4-yr-old) who works FT. I want to have a very small, modest homestead on the side. But I’m worried about having a couple goats b/c of situations like this. Unless I could trick my mama goats into birthing on a Friday (so I’d be off on the weekend), I’d have to go to work the next day. If for some reason a mama goat couldn’t/wouldn’t take care of her baby, I’m not sure what I’d do with the baby. I can’t just not go to work bc I have to stay home and bottle-feed a goat. I mean, I wish I could, but my boss probably wouldn’t let me prioritize things that way. 🙂 Can a person who works FT still reasonably have 2-3 goats? What if a birth went wrong? Can you “foster” goat babies to other goat moms?
I still think you can do it. Goats are pretty easy, aside from the occasional issue. As far as a bad birth goes, more often than not, they do just fine. And yes, you can give the babies away soon and have somebody else either foster it or bottle feed it:)
We just had a very similar situation. I don’t know what our baby goat weighed. The mother rejected it. We cleaned it and fed it until it got a little stronger….. thought the mom would take it back but she tried to kill it. The mom was a very young goat. Then we started putting her on the milk stand and letting the baby nurse. We kept it inside and fed it a night. We posted her on line for sale. Someone who had bottled fed baby goats and had goat milk bought her at 3 days old. She was already enjoying human company.
They so small ,Are they Nigerian dwarf goats Is that what they are ? They cute and adorable. When my Lambs/ goats reject their kids I milk them feed them colostrum for three day and give milk replacer. OR put them in stanchion to let little kid eat. That wrong to do is it. I just want them to live. If mother doesn’t take she goes do the road to auction.
I just read this to my 6 and 4 year old girls. My 6 year old is devastated for this sweet little goat being rejected by it’s own mother! She’s cried pretty hard about it tonight. She is so sensitive to animals and their feelings! So sweet! I’m wondering how the little goat is doing and if their is any bit of hope I could pass on to my heartbroken little girl!? 🙂
aww, your daughter is an Angel. My son was completely this way too, when he was a little boy. Bless her heart 🙂
ZOMG! I teared up reading this, she is so precious!
Of course it’s very cute, but the little goat was NEVER reunited with it’s mother?? No bonding etc? Eeek
Nope, she was never reunited because every time we tried, the mother would try to kill her. We kept her away for her own safety.
Do you sell any of your baby goats? I live in mesa and am looking to start my adventures in backyard milking!
Wow! That is an amazing story! It should TOTALLY be a child’s book! How’s the goat doing? I love goats and hope to raise them someday soon:D That is so sad that the mother and siblings didn’t like her:( But it is such a precious story! Thanks! By the way, do you sell goats?
This has to be one of the cutest things I have ever seen!!!
Melt!!! I have baby goats on my website as well. These are too cute 🙂
That’s just adorable! Loved the story and photos. Shared (on facebook and pinterest) with my Grandbabies and would love to see more updates on the little one.
What about a foam wrapped hard book with goat hair touchy-feely pictures in it.
Oh my word! I raise goats and that is by far the cutest littlest sweetest baby ever! Was it a preemie?
I little happy tear at work. You are inspiring. Thank you for this post!
How big is she now? I have a baby who was born premature in February. He only weighed 15 oz as well. Because it was so cold outside, he had to be raised in the house. He couldn’t stay warm outside. He’s now 8 months old and weighs about 20 pounds. I don’t think he’ll get much bigger – maybe up to 25 pounds when he’s completely mature. I’d be very interested to know how big your girl has gotten!
🙂 Che
Update please! I would love to see some new pics of the little one.
We like the name “Rorschach!”
Hi DaNelle. I’m from Ecuador. Two or three weeks ago I begun seeing your bog and I really like it… The little goat is adorable. I love the story, it is so tender. You definitely should publish this children’s book.
I had a tiny kid no bigger than that, maybe even smaller. Named her Frosty because that is what she was when I found her one January morning, I made her a warm cuddly out of a pantyhose leg and some rice and dried lentils (heated it in the microwave) and kept her in a shoe box, there was plenty of room. I milked her mom and fed her with a 6CC syringe every two hours round the clock for the first week. She grew up very sweet and was very attached to humans. I worried about her getting pregnant as she was only about 20 pounds at 6 months old. However, fate stepped in and an acquaintance who knew I kept goats asked if I had any to sell. Her father in-law had a ‘hankerin’ for a goat, he had one as a kid and I guess maybe it was his second childhood. PERFECT… she would never get pregnant as he had no interest in raising goats, and would be a PET… So Frosty went to live with a farmer and his dog. I heard tales about the goat who rode a four wheeler along with said farmer and dog. Don’t see that person any longer so don’t know how big she eventually got, but I suspect probably 35-40 pounds, certainly no bigger. Sometimes fate can be pretty strange, she was meant to be a four wheeler I guess, and tickle an older gent with her ways.
I think writing a childrens book, or sting of them, based off the shenanigans from your farming life might be a good future career choice! This was a great post, thank you! And oh MY that goat is adorable.
I can’t help but notice the Dr. Bronners bottle! Is that what you use to feed the little goat?
Haha, yes I do!
so is this baby goat a Little Person, uh, I mean Goat? Will she grow to full size or always be small….just wondering?
This proves that my favorite saving true: “Money can’t buy happiness but it can by goats and that’s almost as good”. Of course, you didn’t have to pay for it than that’s even better.
I love goats, can’t wait to get some off my own. Thanks for sharing. I agree on the book thing.
Please get this published as a children’s book complete with these adorable picts!!! I have to have it!
That was SO sweet! I agree with the others! Make this into a kids book! (Pun intended!). Beautiful tiny baby! I would love to have some mini- goats!
That is the cutest little goat I have ever seen. We used to have a little pygmy goat called Fern and cute though she was she never qualified for this level of cutedom!
Really, really adorable. I shared it this week and will again in my Monthly Link Love. So, so cute:)
Can’t stand the adorableness!
That is one spectacularly cute lil goat! The licensed veterinary tech comes out though to worry about there being something wrong with that lil baby that made it so tiny and for mama to reject it. I always root for the underdog (–er, undergoat?) Though and have taken on many a runtlings who turned out just fine. I wish the best for all of you and for hope there will be follow up stories on this beautiful blue eyed baby!!
As if I didn’t already want goats, I had to go and see this! Haha. The littlest goat has to be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. This was the sweetest post ever and I really enjoyed it. The photos are so awesome!
So sweet! You do an awesome job in telling the cutest story for the cutest goat.
I so want a goat!! LOL What a cute story and even cuter goat!
Such an adorable baby goat! and such a sweet story. Looking forward to see the little one grow!
I’m so glad this story had a happy ending!
She is so cute! What are you going to name her?
Not sure yet:)
Cute story and darling little goat
Nawwwww it just melts your hearth!!! I’d love to keep reading about this littlest goat please!!!!
(Yes first comment ever on your blog. lol i guess food pix don’t have the same effect lol.
Awe, thanks for the story!
Is there a follow up story on this. I want to hear the rest and see what she looks like as an adult. Please keep posting about her. 😀
Cute, DaNelle!
I may be experiencing cute overload right now. And yes, publish it!
Definitely makes a great story! Hope you publish it.
Thanks to you, I’m totally crying over goats. I want to hug that baby goat FOREVER.
So Cute! I want to see a picture of it when it grows up. I wonder how big it will get.
This would make a wonderful childs book. Please think about having it published.
Yay! I love happy endings!! Sweetest littlest baby goatie ever! I want to hold it!
the story is so so great !!!!
GOATS 4 ever !!!! <3 <3 <3
I’m so mad at Diva Lacey it makes me want to spit!! What a MEAN MEAN Mama. Thankfully; sweet, adorable, and absolutely heart-stealing littlest goat had a substitute Mama with opposable thumbs who could take care of her better than MEAN Diva Lacey ever could!! Just for that………….I do NOT want MEAN MEAN Diva Lacey’s autograph!! 😛
I LOVED your story! And I want a Littlest Goat of my own now!! LOL Please do contact someone about getting this published before someone gobbles it up! If nothing else self publish it on amazon for ebooks – look up indie authors on google or self publishing. There are a ton of informative sites out there. 😀 Happy Farming!!
Yes! This would make a wonderful children’s book! Trust me, there are some truly awful kids’ books that get published these days…
Stop!!!! The cuteness is too much!
OH! That is too adorable!
Just read this with my 5-year-old. Wonderful! We definitely vote that you should publish it!
I am well aquainted with this “lightheart’s” 5 year-old, a very wise and intelligent 5 year-old indeed, and if he votes for publication, it definitely should be published!!!
yeah, but (my mother HATED that phrase – ‘yeah but’), if I’m not mistaken, your 5 year-old isn’t 5 years old anymore!!! Happy Birthday to my favorite E. Love you bunches! 🙂
I second the calls for a children’s book from this! I’ve got a soft spot for goats anyway, but that is one adorable kid!
Wow! That really IS the cutest little goaty ever!!!! Adorable pictures!
Yes. This definitely would be so cute to put this in a childrens book!
Just gorgeous 🙂
Oh. my. Goodness, DaNelle!! Loved this post. Yeah, I’m lame, it’s the first time I’ve posted a comment on your awesome blog. I’ll have to show Shannan these pictures and read her the story. She’ll love it. You should seriously make this into a cute board book story. 🙂
You should absolutely do the book thing 🙂 And you can call it….. The Adorable Kidd! (lol) By DaNelle. So whadya name the little bugger anyway? Love the post!
Haha, thank you!