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The Relaxed Farming Pygmy Goats: Fascinating facts
All about us
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Why keep pygmy 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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Kidding 2015
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Relaxed FarmingFascinating Facts (as explored by Parsley). We have a lot in common with dairy goats, we are basically the same animal, just a lot smaller (and cuter, and better behaved... well Curds may disagree with me here...)

  • Pygmy goats (or dwarf goats) come from Africa: Read more

  • We are generally no taller than 58 cms: Read more

  • We come in all sorts of colours: and amazingly, there does not seem to be any link between the colour of our parents and the colours we turn out to be (although we do seem to follow some of the characteristics of our parents - which usually means all Onion's kids are naughty!!!). We can be white, cream, black, grey, brown and all sorts of mixtures of these colours too!

  • The Italian word for goat is 'capra': Read more

  • We are also ruminants just like the dairy goats: Read more

  • You can tell our age by our teeth: Read more

Tri-coloured kids from 2013
(black, white and brown)
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A very young Nutmeg (fawn and cream)
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