BABIES: Little goats, lambs keeping staff busy at Little Ponderosa
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Little Ponderosa Zoo visitor Savanna Fellows holds baby goat Banana Pudding in the goat and lamb nursery building as zookeep- er Jaiden Young looks on. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Zookeeper Jaiden Young holds one of the week-old lambs at The Little Ponderosa Zoo and Rescue on Thursday (March 3). - G. Chambers Williams III
It’s baby goat and lamb time at The Little Ponderosa Zoo and Rescue, and the goat nursery is chock full of kids.
“It’s hard to keep track of, but at last count I believe we had about 60 of the baby goats,” General Manager Mary Lou Redmond said Thursday at the nursery area of the zoo, which is at 629 Granite Road, Clinton.
“They’re all about a week old,” she said.
While the mama and baby goats were all together in one large pen inside the covered structure, lambs and their mothers were kept in small, separate pens close by.
Elsewhere in the zoo are other spring babies, including some alpacas, Redmond said.
The goat and lamb nursery is open to visitors, and includes some of the cutest animals in the entire zoo, some of the visitors were saying Thursday.
Redmond was showing off some of the babies Thursday afternoon, and while visitors were watching, she picked up two – including one cream-colored kid she said the zoo had named “Banana Pudding.” She was holding another one at the same time – a black and white goat that she said had not yet been named.
One of the visitors suggested that it be called “Cookies and Cream,” and Redmond agreed that would be a good name for it.
The Little Ponderosa Zoo and Rescue is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
For more information, call 865-457-5536, or visit the website littleponderosazoo.com.