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The Relaxed Farming Dairy Goats: Fascinating facts
All about us
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Why keep dairy goats
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Fascinating facts
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How to look after us
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Our offspring
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Relaxed FarmingFascinating facts... (as explored by Pickle). That's me immediately to the right, munching away on willow after which I usually have a bit of a nap.. and here's your first fact: we sleep for just five hours a day, a lot less than you humans so I believe...

  • Let's get the 'weeing' thing over and done with: Read more

  • We were one of the first animals to be domesticated: Read more

  • In the wild, the 'top' goat is a female: Read more

  • We live into our early to mid teens: Read more

  • Male and female goats can have beards, Read more

  • We are ruminants (and no that's not a pop group!!!). Read more

  • We have eight incisors (biting teeth): these are found on our lower jaw and we have a load of molars (grinding teeth) at the back BUT we don't have any teeth on our upper jaw.

    Instead there is a rough pad that helps us to grip the food and grind it down.

    We do LOVE to nibble things, including your fingers, but we would very rarely would ever bite you... not unless you really annoyed us that is (only kidding!). Seriously though, we would have to be very, very upset to ever bite a human...

 Curds' mouth showing four of her incisors
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Berry about to have a bit of a nibble...
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