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Post by oliverman on Feb 26, 2015 22:57:34 GMT -5
The flavor of Goats milk is definitely influenced strongly by what they eat. You can tell when they went eating in the burdock patch for sure. Some breeds have stronger flavored milk than others too. If an opportunity came along for me to make a living milking cows, I would seriously consider it. Milking goats, not so much. Too ornery of beasts.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 27, 2015 13:25:09 GMT -5
That cell phone commercial with the screaming goats cracks me up every time. I thought that it was something made up for TV but hubby informed me that he used to have a goat before he knew me and he screamed like that all of the time.
We Googled it and they just sound so funny. Here's a video of some different sounds. You can hear people laughing in the background so I am not the only one who thinks that it's funny!
I DARE you to watch this and not laugh.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=msTwoovgLyU
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Post by desertwoman on Feb 27, 2015 13:48:16 GMT -5
oh dear that was so bad it was good
you win, I laughed
a lot
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Post by binnylou on Feb 27, 2015 15:17:11 GMT -5
man...so glad I don't share a table with any of them
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Post by ncgarden on Feb 27, 2015 18:53:38 GMT -5
So grateful nothing on my farm sounds like that (except, sometimes, me of course)
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Post by binnylou on Feb 27, 2015 18:57:43 GMT -5
So grateful nothing on my farm sounds like that (except, sometimes, me of course) Not indigestion, I hope
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Post by OregonRed on Feb 28, 2015 10:42:43 GMT -5
OMG, that is so funny. sometimes it seems like a distress call, sometimes an aggression (the males). it seems the males make the funniest sounds, almost talking.... thanks for the laughs :~D
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 28, 2015 11:11:26 GMT -5
Hubby tells me that his goat used to yell like that all of the time....just because.
If any of my neighbors ever tell me that my rooster is too noisy - I'm getting a goat!
Aren't they funny?
I was really disappointed last week when hubby and I stopped at a farm to buy a bale of straw for our chickens. They had 5 or 6 goats in a pen and they just stood there and looked at us - no sounds. How disappointing.
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Post by binnylou on Feb 28, 2015 11:21:43 GMT -5
Hubby tells me that his goat used to yell like that all of the time....just because.
If any of my neighbors ever tell me that my rooster is too noisy - I'm getting a goat!
Aren't they funny?
I was really disappointed last week when hubby and I stopped at a farm to buy a bale of straw for our chickens. They had 5 or 6 goats in a pen and they just stood there and looked at us - no sounds. How disappointing. Maybe they were waiting for YOU to start the conversation.
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Post by oliverman on Feb 28, 2015 15:12:29 GMT -5
Goats sure know how to cry foul any time they feel that injustice is being done. Had a runaway billy goat this summer. After chasing him on foot for a mile, through two neighbors yards, and crawling through hundreds of feet of tall corn, I finally was able to lasso him. He screamed bloody murder at having his feet tied while I held him down and waited for the neighbor to bring a trailer haul him home.
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Post by binnylou on Feb 28, 2015 15:23:04 GMT -5
The flavor of Goats milk is definitely influenced strongly by what they eat. You can tell when they went eating in the burdock patch for sure. Some breeds have stronger flavored milk than others too. If an opportunity came along for me to make a living milking cows, I would seriously consider it. Milking goats, not so much. Too ornery of beasts. I think I have posted previously about the goat that we had when I was a kid (no pun). Rachel ate everything. Our outhouse was lined with cardboard to keep the wind whistling through, and as kids will do, the door was left open a lot. Rachel stripped (ate) all of the cardboard that was tacked to the walls of the outhouse. We had a small fire in our garage and the wood walls were heavily smoked and blackened. Apparently Rachel liked the taste of char because everything that she could reach was nibbled clean. She took the plastic storm windows off the neighbors windows. She was a hoot...I doubt if the neighbors thought so. And if there had been milk, it would have been different?
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Feb 28, 2015 15:58:19 GMT -5
My nephew and his wife and 4 year old son adopted an orphaned baby nanny goat. The bottle fed it and kept it in the newly remodeled kitchen. Then they found it on the kitchen counters. I suggested that they use the nice barn on their property and maybe get little nanny some 4 footed family with hooves. Their german shepherd, border collie, half mastiff and half lab, and 2 Havanese( all female) don't count.
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Post by ncgarden on Mar 1, 2015 6:17:51 GMT -5
binnylou - funny you should mention that about your goat and char. My sheep seem to have a fondness for it as well. Their pasture includes our "burn" area, and I frequently find them nosing about in the ashes and soot (and isn't THAT lovely on their fleeces....)
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Post by brownrexx on Mar 1, 2015 8:37:54 GMT -5
We have campfires at our cabin in Western PA and we have often found evidence of animals, probably deer, nosing around in the ashes. One morning we saw turkeys dusting themselves in the ashes.
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Post by OregonRed on Mar 1, 2015 12:23:47 GMT -5
I especially liked the section in the video where the south American man was 'talking' to the male goat, and the goat replied, and he'd look at the camera and say something to the 'audience', back and forth, that was funny!
when someone said: "maybe they were waiting for you to start the conversation..." that what I remembered.
hehe
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