Kidding around

Rural Toronto's Grace Stacy has got your goat. She's keeping busy helping her goats give birth at all hours of the day or night.

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April 23, 2021 - 2:22 PM

Grace Stacy, rural Toronto, talks about the challenges and joys inherent in raising goats. For instance, “goat math is different from regular math,” she laughed. Photo by Trevor Hoag / Iola Register

Grace Stacy isn’t getting much sleep these days.

During the season when her Nubian dairy goats are giving birth, the 78-year-old has to be ready at a moment’s notice, no matter the time of day.

That also means regular checks every couple of hours.

“I used to sleep in the barn when they were due,” she said.

“It’s always a time of stress,” Stacy continued, “since you never know what you’re going to get, same as with cattle people.”

Grace Stacy cuddles a goat kid that was just born on Wednesday night.Photo by Trevor Hoag / Iola Register

And indeed, Stacy has seen it all, from a doe named Helen giving birth to five kids in sequence, to having to disentangle and turn countless goats while still in the womb.

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