The traditional animal to do with Christmas in Sweden is the goat - the Jul Bok - well, we're having our fun with our own Christmas goats this year...

We knew that two of our goats were pregnant, and we had an idea that Mimi would be giving birth just before Christmas and Blåblomma would be giving birth some time after Christmas.

Sure enough, earlier this week, on the 21st December, our Mimi gave birth to two lovely babies.

What we weren't expecting was to go out this morning for a walk with the dog, and find Foxglove (barely a year old) giving birth in the field!

Seems the Christmas story is alive and well, and Foxglove - supposedly a virgin goat - decided the Christmas story was a wonderful inspiration to her, and despite not having shown any signs of being pregnant until we went out at 10am this morning to find a baby goat hanging out of her, decided Christmas Eve was the ideal place to have a baby, and she wasn't going to have it in the stable, because that was already full with Mimi and her babies.

Mother and baby are now inside, her mother is showing her how to look after her youngster, and order is back!

Meanwhile, whilst wrestling Foxglove and her baby inside, the other goats decided to launch the great escape and head off for the forest. The prison guards rounded them up, and got them back into the field :)