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To: AnAmericanMother
What a great story...goats can be taught lots of things...I had one born to a young nanny that was not suppose to be preg...She had a buck that I named after my Son-in-Law...I taught him to shake paws for a hand-full of corn...He got ornery at about 4 when I let him breed for the first time...

Our first kidding season (my hubby and I being city folk that decided to raise goats) we lost 3 out of 4 of our first year...But the one I was able to save became quite a pet...He was the only one that I could let out of the pasture and he would follow me around the farm, if he lost track of me he'd baaa baaa until I called him...I spent so much time with him and carried him to the alfalfa field (he was too weak to walk) and I'd hold him up with my calfs (leg muscles not cow) and let him eat all he wanted and supplemented him with a bottle several times a day...A neighbor around the corner raised dairy goats and I'd go buy a gallon from her for my little guy (that ended up being his name)

Angora's don't smell like a lot of breeds of goats as they are like deer and have a breeding season (2 months) at that time the breeding billys stink to high heaven...They urinate on themselves and I guess that is irrestistible to the nannys...Just not to the owners....You can smell those guys from 30 feet away...P.U.

As a general rule 1 goat is a lonely goat, being a flock animal they are more at ease with others...

I got on a thread quite a while back of with one gal that was able to housebreak her goat...she sent me a picture...now thats a woman with patience...but she too had a great story....

158 posted on 09/18/2009 9:49:28 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny
If we had kept Leona, I would have had a shot at housebreaking her. She was very intelligent, and affectionate too. It may have just been cupboard love, because she lived like a pampered princess with us, but she learned to recognize the sound of my car motor (and my footsteps) and would bleat for me to 'hurry up please!'

I was warned not to keep a billy! Oddly enough the lady down the hill on the OTHER side had an old billy goat with one horn and he WAS a stinky old fellow. She kept him on a tether in the yard to eat the kudzu.

This neighborhood was in downtown Atlanta but you might as well have been somewhere out in the country in north Georgia. The area was settled by folks out of NW GA who came down to Atlanta to work in the Tull Sheet Metal factory, and they brought the country with them. We loved it!

160 posted on 09/18/2009 10:32:11 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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