What IS the attraction of having fainting goats?

DrippingSprings · #21 09/07/05, 10:40 PM

i have been told it is for those single men farmers. that way they dont have to put the rear legs down in their rubber boots anymore so they cant get away after a hard nights drinking

Valduare · #22 09/08/05, 04:07 AM

someone's got some experience showin through lol... i'd never have thought of the rubber boot being the way they do it.

marvella · #23 09/08/05, 07:29 AM

this may be true. i know there used to be an itinerant that walked all over tn, with a herd of goats. they called him "goatman," and if i didn't have crs, i'd tell you his name. there's actually a pencil drawing of him hanging on the wall of our local bank.

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Originally Posted by caberjim

No one knows for sure why they had this trait breed into them. Their origins are a bit of a mystery. They breed can be traced back to a single man who wandered into a town in Tennessee with some fainting goats and a cow he said was sacred, but no one knows exactly where he came from or where he got the goats. Sold the goats and left after a year of being there. No one knows where he went to. He did take the cow, tho.