Some things I had never heard before

[Backfourty,MI.]

I got a calendar for Christmas with all goats, cuter than heck but each page has a fact about goats under the picture.

Some of them I had never heard before & I still don't believe them even though it's in black & white. I don't know where these folks got their info but I've never heard a male goat called a ram before!

1) A mature goat can weigh 100-120 pounds.

2) A male goat is called a ram or a billy

3) There are over 300 breeds of goats

4) goats milk is considered easier for humans to swallow

5) goats may have been the first herd animal to be domesticated 9,000 years ago in Persia

The rest of them are Ok facts & true I think.

[eclipchic]

maybe its cultural?

[bee]

Heh...don't boers go over 200 pounds??..I persoanally had a 165 pound Nubian doe.

goats milk is easier for humans to digest..naturally homogenized.

Sometimes translations are to blame..read some Chinese made products English translations on the instructions.....

[Backfourty,MI.]

I thought boer bucks could go 300 pounds or more?

The back of the calendar says it's printed in Korea but under each month & the days of the week which are in english it has each one in 3 different languages & I don't know what language there in.

I did notice there are alot of holidays, etc. for other countries too.

[HappyFarmer]

Is there a distributors address in the U.S.?

I think I'd write them with the correct facts, not that I think it would do any good, it would just make me feel better.

HF

[Backfourty,MI.]

no address but it's put out by browntrout publishers it says so I may try to look them up on their website & send a note that way.

[FrogTacos]

Ya, Boers easily go above that weight. One of my mid-sized adult girls weighed 145 last time I took her to the vet.

[LoneStrChic23]

LOL

Though I prefer the taste of goat's milk, I don't find it any easier to swallow when compared to other milk.

I have an Alpine doe that is over 160lbs...... Sam, according to the guy I sold him to for meat said he was 189lbs (11 months old) prior to butchering...... Dunno what they got back from him though.

"Ram or billy"

[where I want to]

Sounds like language issues to me too.
A mature goat can weigh 100-130 lbs but my girls are stomach draggin' 150.

[saanengirl]

There are quite a few goat breeds worldwide, so I don't doubt the 300+ breeds statement.

Goats were one of the earliest herd animals domesticated. They were domesticated during the neolithic period in the mountains at the border of Iraq and Iran, so 9000 years ago in Persia is pretty close to accurate.

[Pony]

My goats weigh LOTS more than that.

Males are called "bucks." (I really dislike it when people call my gorgeous buck a "billy." Ticks me off no end. Worse is when they call my regal does "nannies." Uh... no.)

Goat milk is easier to digest, but I find it hard to swallow that it goes down any easier than bovine lactate.