Seeing animals that you have raised from babies return briefly to show you how well they doing makes it all worthwhile. Duke (already named when passed to me) & The Worm (named because she was a wriggler) were here as babies and raised together. They came in at the end 2017 and were free living in early 2019.
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Duke and Worm free living but still hanging around the homestead.
Nov 2019 Wormie came for a brief visit with a baby in the pouch and Duke also. Duke was to young to have fathered a baby but he had clearly found Worm.
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Wormie visits with baby in pouch and Duke in tow !
So wonderful to see that despite losing her own mother she had become one and was successful. She returned again in 2020 and 2021.
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Worm with baby at heel
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A beautiful healthy baby
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Then sometime later night visit , look at that big baby now and big mama!
We still see Duke who is a big buck now and also Billy who is enormous . Billy is about 12 years old now and appears occasionally and sometimes Duke is with him ” the bachelors ” .
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Baby Billy
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Billy now – just thought id pop in and eat some of this grain , as I remember it was quite good stuff!