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I use to raise Angora goats...beautiful creatures and with only the large breeding males did my hubby have to help me take down to trim hoofs...If not cross bred with another type of goat they are always pure white with curls and waves..Sheared them twice a year (a professional shearer). They shear mohair...The year my husband passed away we were up to almost 80 in the flock....started with 18..

if you google angora goats you will see how beautiful they are....not at all like other goats, originated in Turkey.

Texas has the largest population of angora's...virtually millions...

That most expensive fiber Cashmere also comes from goats...

We used to have ONE goat -- a little black and white floppy eared girl of unknown ancestry.

She belonged to our next door neighbor, an elderly man who was gassed in the Argonne in WWI. Periodically he had to go into the VA with lung trouble, and we would babysit the goat while he was gone.

He was just an old country boy, and as far as he was concerned the goat was just a lawnmower -- she had to live on the weeds and stuff in his back yard. When she came to our house for babysitting, she got alfalfa hay, Purina Goat Chow, and her own drinking fountain in the back yard, as well as a brushing every day and a bath once a week. She turned from a bag of bones with brittle hair into a fat, sassy, glossy-coated beauty.

And she used to periodically have a jailbreak and come putting her nose on our sunroom windows looking for a treat . . . .

Anyhow, when he passed away he bequeathed the goat to us, which was very nice, but then his relations came from south Georgia and claimed the goat. I just hope they didn't barbeque her -- but I think she was too old and tough for that.