Running of the kids

May 11, 2022 12:00 am • Last Updated: May 31, 2022 1:35 pm

By Dana Jensen
Staff Photographer

Mark Nathan Watford, 2 years old, runs with three adult Nigerian Dwarf goats and a herd of kids as they leave the field and head to the barn for the night Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at the Nathan Lester House and Farm Tool Museum in Gales Ferry. Mark Nathan lives at on the property with his mother, Rebecca Lindner, the caretaker and docent of the house and museum, and his father and two brothers. The goat kids are part of a set of quadruplets and set of triplets born on March 29 and 30. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Rebecca Lindner, the caretaker and docent at the Nathan Lester House and Farm Tool Museum in Gales Ferry, lives on the property with her husband Corey Watford and her three sons, Declan Lindner, 10, Liam Lindner, 8, and Mark Nathan Watford, 2.

Lindner said they started raising the Nigerian Dwarf goats a year ago when they were having trouble getting the prescription non-milk formula for Mark Nathan who was allergic to cow milk. By switching to goat milk, Mark Nathan was able to adjust to the lactose in raw goat milk and now is able to drink cow milk.

Lindner uses the goat milk to make cheese and goat milk soap and uses herbs from the formal gardens that are maintained by the Ledyard Garden Club.

The goat kids are part of a set of quadruplets and set of triplets born on March 29 and 30.

Rebecca Lindner and her son, Declan, 10, bottle feed two Nigerian Dwarf goat kids while her son, Mark Nathan Watford, 2 years old, watches Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at the Nathan Lester House and Farm Tool Museum in Gales Ferry. The two goat kids are part of a set of quadruplets and triplets born on March 29 and 30. Rebecca Lindner, the caretaker and docent of the house and museum, and the boys and her son Liam, 8, and her husband, Corey Watford, not shown, live on the property. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Declan Lindner, 10, nuzzles his favorite Nigerian Dwarf goat kid after bottle feeding the kid Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at the Nathan Lester House and Farm Tool Museum in Gales Ferry. The goat kid is one of set of quadruplets and triplets born on March 29 and 30. Declan´s mother, Rebecca, the caretaker and docent of the house and museum, and his brothers and step-father live on the property. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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From left, Declan Lindner, 10, his mother, Rebecca Lindner, and brother, Mark Nathan Watford, 2, work to get a few of the Nigerian Dwarf goat kids into the barn for the night Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at the Nathan Lester House and Farm Tool Museum in Gales Ferry. The three goat kids are part of a set of quadruplets and triplets that were born on March 29, and 30. Rebecca and her three sons and husband, Corey Watford, live on the property. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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