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Author Topic: should i keep goats? what breeds, rare breeds? where to start!  (Read 6175 times)

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: should i keep goats? what breeds, rare breeds? where to start!
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2014, 03:38:39 pm »
BTW - has anyone else noticed goats always seem to be smiling? or is it a smirk, after all, they do seem to have us (me) well trained  :) .

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: should i keep goats? what breeds, rare breeds? where to start!
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2014, 08:43:00 pm »
That's because goats are happy animals.  ;D

goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: should i keep goats? what breeds, rare breeds? where to start!
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2014, 08:05:01 am »
It's because they know they are going to do a 'silent but deadly' as soon as you bend down to feed them
 :D
registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: should i keep goats? what breeds, rare breeds? where to start!
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2014, 02:32:34 pm »
It's because they know they are going to do a 'silent but deadly' as soon as you bend down to feed them
 :D
Come to think of it - I can think of many variations of that one, and lucky mine don't have horns.

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: should i keep goats? what breeds, rare breeds? where to start!
« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2014, 11:09:43 pm »
You could be right goosepimple.  :roflanim:

 

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