Goats and Kids

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

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

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.