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Goats and Kids


Kindifarm has a wide variety of goats that come in all shapes, colours and sizes.

Saanan Goat
Saanen Goat
feeding goats
Anglo-Nubian Goat

We also have baby goats (kids) between 2 weeks and 2 months old.

Nubian Kid
Nubian Kid
Toggenburg Kid
Toggenburg Kid
Saanen Kid
Saanen Kid

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
  • Some wild goats can climb trees. If you google ‘goat circus’ you will see goats can even walk on a tightrope.
  • 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!

George Bush was reading a story about a pet goat to some school children when he was told about an aircraft hitting the World Trade Centre on 9/11. The story was so engaging he kept reading for another 7 minute after he was told about the second plane hitting the towers! The story is about a pet goat that eats everything. The girl loves her goat but her dad wants to get rid of it. In the end the goat saves the family from a robber. The moral of the story is to treat everybody kindly because they may help us one day, even if we don’t expect them to.