Kindifarm has a wide variety of goats that come in all shapes, colours and sizes.
Enjoy hand feeding them pellets and chaff and feel how gentle they are as they lick the food right out of your hands!
Bottle feeding the kids will be a highlight, as the children stand right next to them holding their bottle. Pat and feel their coat as you watch how quickly they drink their milk!
Interesting Goat facts:
Goats were the first animals that humans used for milk
There are over 210 breeds of goat in the world
There are 450 million goats in the world
A female goat is called a ‘doe’ or ‘nanny’
A male goat is called a ‘buck’ or ‘billy’
A castrated male goat is called a ‘wether’
A baby goat is called a ‘kid’
Goats do not have teeth in their upper jaw
Both male and female goats can have beards
Goats live for about 10 – 12 years
Goats have a 4-chamber stomach, and digest food in 2 steps. They eat food, then regurgitate it as ‘cud’, then eat the cud. Other ruminants are sheep, cattle, deer, camels, giraffes and llamas.
Azalea bushes are poisonous to goats
The little dangles near the throat of some goats are called wattles. They serve no function.
During biblical times, goats’ skin was used as parchment for writing on.
Goats and octopus have rectangular pupils in their eyes. It gives them 340-degree vision without moving.
Goats see well at night!
