Two young goats with distinct markings in a wooden barn illuminated by string lights, natural daylight suggests daytime. 5:52
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Brand-new baby goats bounce like popcorn

One kid finds the camera first. Up close, all big ears and dark eyes, he stares straight into the lens. more

The stare doesn't last. He tries to come closer, then scampers off to his siblings, and the whole bunch goes hopping away together. There are fifteen of them at Sunflower Farm Creamery, all Nigerian Dwarf goats. The youngest is one day old, and none is older than a week.

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The first kid to find the camera stares into the lens, then runs back to the others.

Their legs seem to run on their own plan. A kid stands still one second and is in the air the next, then lands and heads off in a direction nobody seems to have picked. People watching compared it to popcorn, and to a barn floor made of trampoline. Both are about right.

Not every kid is bouncing. One little girl has found her mother and settles in to nurse. The other mothers stand close by and keep an eye on the rest, who don't make the job easy.

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One kid finds the camera first.

Everyone moves outside after that. Mothers and kids spread out in the daylight, and the farm owner's cat joins them. Some kids race around in the sun. Others pick the shade and play there in small groups, like friends who found the good spot first.

Later in the day the whole herd comes back in to rest. That's the plan, anyway. A few kids find some sacks inside and climb to the top just to leap off again, while the others go on hopping around the barn as if the day had only started.