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Old 05/06/10, 06:39 PM
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I had my young French Alpine buckling in my main pen the other day. He was following me about as I did chores. My twin miniature does born last august came over and started fussing over him - hackles raised, bug eyed, etc...

So, I made a snorting noise and threw my hands up in the air, stepping quickly towards them. One of the does - my butcher doe - ran away, the other FAINTED dead away just like a fainting goat. Fell over and everything. I didn't get her to fall over again, but I proceeded to pester her into stiff back legs.

A good friend of mine has fainting goats, so I know what a fainting goat 'faint' looks like.

Still today, when startled by the whip during feeding, she ran with the stiff-back legged fainter 'hop'.

I hadn't noticed till now because I hadn't thought of trying to faint any of my miniatures - as far as I know, my miniatures have background of mainly pygmies and nigerians. It's impossible to say if the myotonia anomaly just popped up, or if they have fainter in their backround somewhere... either way, it's odd!
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How interesting! I have considered breeding our nigerian to a fainter but haven't yet...
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I'm wrangling kids by myself to give shots today and "fainting" sounds like a good thing to me right now....

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Kitty, I could not for the life of me think of why anyone would want a fainting goat, but now that you mention it, it seems to me that hoof trimming would be a darned sight easier.
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Old 05/07/10, 08:38 PM
 
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I think I would have died laughing. I have an alpaca that when you put a halter and lead rope on her she falls over flat and just lays there. Dead weight instead of fighting and fussing about being led. It's annoying as heck. I wonder if she's got fainting goat in her.
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Kitty, I could not for the life of me think of why anyone would want a fainting goat, but now that you mention it, it seems to me that hoof trimming would be a darned sight easier.
They go really good with expensive livestock as a sarificial animal if something gets past the dogs.
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They go really good with expensive livestock as a sarificial animal if something gets past the dogs.
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Old 05/10/10, 07:36 AM
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The buck I bought in the winter was supposed to be pygmy/nigie cross.

He faints too, although I've been told the original breeder says there is no fainter in his background.

The thing I like about it is he doesn't stand on the fences.. and if he IS out, he is easy to catch LOL. (He's a calm boy, too, which helps!)


I never really wanted a fainter either, but there are advantages!
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