What can you tell me about Goats?

[Tsiyu]

My neighbors have some, and they SMELL *phew*.

One of them gets his head caught in the fence all the time and bleats like a sacrificial lamb. You can hear him way down the road. That's how you know he got his head stuck again.

Oh, and I had some great Curried goat in the Netherlands, but I never ate US goat. Any difference?

[da_chimperor]

1. Curried goat, eh? Was this in Amsterdam?

I'm curious, as goat is high on my 'animals to eat' list. Seriously. :)

[Hotler]

13. There's a traveling salesman driving ....

down a country road. A sees a man having sex with a goat behind a barn. He quickly turns into the driveway of the farm and there's a boy playing. Hey kid there's a man out back behind your barn having sex with a goat. Oh! That's just daaaaaaaaaaaaad!!

[Tsiyu]

15. Yes. This goofy ass guy from Memphis

kept telling us we needed to try some "Rahstaffel"

So we ducked into this dark little Indonesian place and pigged out.

[progmom]

rijstafel

yummy.

[Tsiyu]

40. I can smell it now

And I'd prefer a dry white wine with that...

[da_chimperor]

43. Cool, now I know where to look

I'll probably have to go to Amsterdam for it though. I think the Indonesian food in my town is toned down some. Thanks.

[Padraig18]

2. Goats are very intelligent animals.

Your neighbor's goat's example nonwithstanding.

;)

[Tsiyu]

16. That's good to know.

I know they'll eat anything vegetative, and that's why all of my neighbors have them.

We live in the land of the sawbriars, but goats will eat them thorns and all.

[Maple]

3. Anything you'd like to know

Helped raise them for some friends.

And they don't smell unless they're kept in filthy conditions...same as human beings would do.

On edit: goat meat is delicious. Usually marketed as 'chevon'. And tastes nothing like chicken. :D

Feta cheese is also goat's milk

[Tsiyu]

17. I have an acute sense of smell

when it comes to animals.

I can smell deer, even if they were passing through the yard ( sharing the horse's winter hay) hours ago.

But I helped rear some baby goats once too, and milked a nanny. They are cute. :)

I was only copycatting the other threads but hey....these goat facts are important, too!

[trof]

4. Actually had some grazing in our neighborhood.

Just showed up.
Turns out they were "freed" by Huricane Ivan.
The owners were eventually located and they retrieved them.
There's never a goat roper around when you need one.

[Tsiyu]

18. How fun!

I bet if you just shook a bucket of grain they'd come running. Horses and goats are whores for grain.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Tasty fair food down south.

GOAT BOX was the thang.

I never tried it.

Can't get those pleading square pupils out of my head...

[Tsiyu]

19. Goat Box? Pray tell?

I'm kind of squeamish, so use euphemisms.

[DebJ]

6. they make some NASTY cheese, yuk!

[Logansquare]

11. Yes, if your favorite "cheese" is Velveeta

You won't like goat cheese. Good goat cheese is the food of the gods.

[neweurope]

46. When I'm in France I live off bread and goat's cheese -

I do not need anything else for the whole vacation. Goat's cheese is wonderful.

[u4ic]

12. Woolwich Dairy

(from Ontario) has some amazing goat cheese. However, it is mozzarella, cheddar, brie, gouda, feta...not that nasty generic 'goat cheese' that one finds at the supermarket, which IS disgusting.

I love goat's milk...from a local organic farm. Much tastier than cow's milk, and easier to digest...no symptoms for me. But again, the generic supermarket stuff is gross.

[Tsiyu]

21. So that's the ticket

find a good goat dairy...

[skygazer]

7. I can tell you they smell

Actually, male goats tend to smell - evidently girl goats like that though I never found it very appealing. I believe it's their urine but I never really got too involved to be sure.

I used to have a goat - she was pretty cool. They can have neat personalities and are also pretty smart though the one with the fence issue doesn't sound like he/she fits that category.

[Tsiyu]

22. I know, this crazy goat

has had his head freed by more than a few of my friends, passing by on their way to my house.

He needs a helmet or something.

[skygazer]

23. Maybe he's doing it for attention

They can be pretty darn smart.

My sister had a goat that used to get up on her roof to browse on the tree branches - her house backed up to a hill. It was so funny to pull in the drive and see a goat two stories up, on the roof.

[Maple]

27. After 20 years with them

I can tell you they do not smell.

[TexasProgresive]

31. Maple, ever rub a buck on the head from

September to March.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Ask *

He was more interested in a pet goat than the nation being attacked by terrorists. He ought to be an expert by now.

[jellybelly]

9. obviously

goats are into attempting suicide

[Deja Q]

10. They're really good in bed?

:shrug:

[sendero]

14. My wife....

.... is hell-bent on raising some goats when we move out to the country in a few years :)


She's been studying up on them and has a couple friends at work who have some. One thing they are good for - they will eat any weed or unwanted plant you may have, and I mean ANY including poison ivy.

Sounds good to me :)

[TexasProgresive]

34. They will eat most weeds but not too fond of

ragweed and croton weed which is ironically called goat weed around here. They will eat your rose bushes and fruit trees. Ours are trained to electric fence and hence leave our stuff alone.

[sendero]

44. Definitely...

... plan on a mesh fence with electic wires. Seems they can be pretty resourceful at getting out of a fence, or so I've heard :)

[Cuban_Liberal]

20. They're delicious!

They also make good pets.

;)

[MissBrooks]

24. Goats smell

We were at Petco with the dogs getting their picture taken with Santa.
And the lady in front of us had two goats... yes, they were having their picture taken with Santa also.

Well, let's just say that goats aren't "house broken" if you know what I mean....

YUCK!

[Tsiyu]

25. Well, now you have to post

the cute Santa/pup pics!

And a Santa/goat picture would be dear, huh?

[Mabeline]

26. We raised goats for a few years, and actually

only the males stink. Female goats don't and can actually be more like pets. We would take our nannies to "visit" (what we told my 2 year old son) Billies.

One year we had four nannies pregnant and all delivered within days of each other, during a snow storm...one had three, two had twins and one had one. I ended up bottle feeding four baby goats while I myself was pregnant with my last baby...what a time!

Ever try fresh goat milk? My mom used to make cheese too.

[Maple]

28. Sigh....goats do not smell

Nor do they eat tin cans.

Nor do they eat anything available.

They are actually very fussy, if they aren't kept starving.

I took them to be judged at fairs, and discovered by accident that they are very fond of candy floss, but will spit out oats if it's not just so.

Nor are they call nannies and billies. They are bucks and does.

Why do people believe bizarre things about one mammal, that isn't true for any other mammal? Myths should be discarded don't you think?

Pigs don't smell either if they have clean pens.

[Mabeline]

36. Maybe the billy goats you dealt with didn't

stink, but the BUCKS I was around certainly did.

Why do some people want to look down their noses at others for using names other than text book names for animals?

Did I say they ate tin cans? No.
Did I say they eat anything available? No.
They do LOVE wild honeysuckle. They would eat all the wild ginsing they could find.

Also I didn't say I raised them to take them to be judged at fairs, we raised them to milk.

[TexasProgresive]

29. It's the male goats during the rut

that smell so bad. The females only get that odor from rubbing on the bucks. We've keep goats for 25 years now. They are extremely intelligent and clean. Goats are very fastidious about their feed and hay. Once hay has hit the ground and been stepped on they won't eat it unless starving.

Their milk is very good if not contaminated with the musk of the bucks and is very digestible. You can raise nearly every infant mammal on goats milk and they will thrive.

We dis-bud our kid goats so they can't grow horns. Horns are dangerous to other goats and to people but they also get caught in fences.

The only difference with curried goat would be the cook and the recipe. Chevon (goat meat) is lean and quite good. In this country it is mostly ethnic populations that eat chevon-but it is very popular around the world.

[Frogtutor]

30. They can detect Cheetos in a sealed ziplock bag, contained inside a

diaper bag from 50 yards away! I found this out at a petting zoo I took my son to when he was little. I didn't realize what they were after at first, they just attacked the stroller (where the diaper bag was hanging)! It was kinda scary...

[TexasProgresive]

32. They'll kill for vanilla wafers!

And make sure your insurance is paid up if you are"holding" a stash of Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies.

[A HERETIC I AM]

33. Goats are dangerous animals with a large beak and fins

for swimming. When you are near a body of water where there are goats and people you should yell at the top of your lungs;

CUIDADO! GOATS!!


oops........umm....sorry....

thats LLamas

My bad

[Placebo]

35. If you haven't gotten any in a long time...

goats can start lookin' mighty PURDY. :9

[Quakerfriend]

37. They are wonderful pets, but can be hard to control

And, they can do serious damage to your car!

My children drink only goats milk. It is very delicious and much more easily digested that cows milk!

[Tsiyu]

38. Well, I've got dogs and cats crawling all over my poor car

I better keep away from the goats in that case.

The babies are sweet, I have to say.:)

In our neighborhood we have sheep, goats, turkeys, chickens, hogs and who knows what else wild. I'll just stick to the ponies :kick:, but it is good to know all of the wild and wonderful facts about our little goat friends.

I'm half Italian, so I grew up eating goat cheese and I do love feta. I'm staying away from the cow's milk and beef, so I will definitely check into the goat cheese from a good dairy.

I can't belive no one has posted a goat picture in this whole thread. Anyhoo, thanks guys.

[Placebo]

39. Here you go:

:hi:

[Tsiyu]

41. Awwwwwww!!!

That beats all those silly cat pics hands down!

[NaturalHigh]

42. My parents have a goat.

His name is Chester, and he's one of the smartest animals I've ever seen. Everyone loves him, including my kids. My dad occasionally blows his stack when Chester pulls off a particularly ornery stunt, like managing to get into the house and take a big bite out of the cantaloupe. It's hard to stay mad at him, though.

[Skittles]

45. watch your ass

they will butt the living hell out of you, plus they eat ANYTHING.