[R] ? ~ ADONIS

Hello, I am an R noivce, so excuse my simple questions . My data have 5 respone variales (each 109 rows) and three independent variables, each with two levels [Age Class(A,SA), Repro State(L,NL) and Sex of Calf(F,M. *some females do not have calves so NA)]. My data are not normally distributed

[R] lmer (multinomial response variable ~ fixed + (1|random), family='multinomial ???)

Hello, I am trying to run glmm to test the effect of the three fixed effects [AGE (weaned vs. unweaned claf), LOCATION (zoo vs. park), MOTher's social status (matriarch vs. nonmatriarch)] and one random effect [ID (12 different calves of whom I have multiple but unbalanced observations)] on the a