Most ask question at fair?

Goatsandsheep · #1 09/28/13, 08:57 PM

We have La Mancha. No we don't cut their ears off. No it's not a birth defect. Yes they can hear.

Over heard one lady telling her friend how cruel we are cutting off their ears, horns(disbudded can't show with horns), tails (hmmm no did you look), and steal all the milk from the babies! Oh and we have to separate the blood out of the milk. Thank goodness fair over tomorrow!

ETA: What do you get ask about your goats?

dozedotz · #2 09/28/13, 09:00 PM

I have always said that you LaMancha people should not cut those ears off! Haven't I?
Maybe now you people will start listening to us long eared folks who have just been trying to help you all these years...sad that it had to come to this...

CJBegins · #3 09/28/13, 09:21 PM

I have to admit, I was one of those idiots the first time I saw a LaMancha. The only difference was that I thought the babies ears got frost bit and fell off.

Minelson · #4 09/28/13, 10:17 PM

Do they eat your empty beer cans for ya? (no)
Why do you have them? (I like them)
What do you do with them? (same thing I "do" with all my animals, care for them)
Do you milk them all and drink the milk? (no)

mpete · #5 09/29/13, 03:42 AM

OMG! You must be here in Red Bluff! We always have the most red-neck-citified-know-it-all-nobodies here!

mpete · #6 09/29/13, 03:43 AM

I know someone who actually started telling stories about how they are special racing goats and it helps them duck into holes, lol

Rockytopsis · #7 09/29/13, 05:18 AM

mpete, that is a new one and I like it.
Rocky

dizzy · #8 09/29/13, 06:21 AM

It's bad enough when it's at a fair, but when it's at a livestock auction, it's even worse! I heard someone comment when looking at some La manchas that they hate it when people do that to their ears. I told her that's how they were born. Don't know if she believed me or not.

Did ya ever have anyone ask you what kind of dog they were?

Alice In TX/MO · #9 09/29/13, 06:43 AM

Yes, I've had the dog question.

I also had a local female attorney look at a sweet tricolor MiniMancha doeling and stalk off shrieking that it was the ugliest thing she ever saw. I guess I won't throw any business HER way.

Rockytopsis · #10 09/29/13, 09:27 AM

I got the dog breed once at a festival. Had Shaq hooked to the wagon and over herd a lady say " wonder what kind of dog that is" then another time a lady came running out from the crowd and said " OH look a Longhorn pulling a wagon" I said to her " Mam it is a goat" she turned and looked back at the person behind her and said with certainty " Its a goat" and proceeded snapping pictures of the "Longhorn"

While he is not a LaMancha I cant understand anyone mistaking him for a dog or even a Longhorn.

Rocky

Barn Yarns · #11 09/29/13, 09:44 AM

at our fair, (and state fair too) the sheep and goats are in the same area. i often hear people saying 'look at the goats' when they are by my pens. I calmly point the other way and say... 'the goats are over there... these are sheep'

be glad you dont get asked a million times each day why the sheep are wearing blankets! =(

Doug Hodges · #12 09/29/13, 09:58 AM

Those are all great.

Wolfy-hound · #13 09/29/13, 11:20 AM

I had an angora goat and no one would believe it wasn't a sheep. I figure that's pretty believable though.

RovingAcres · #14 09/29/13, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolfy-hound

I had an angora goat and no one would believe it wasn't a sheep. I figure that's pretty believable though.

Everyone thinks my angoras are either sheep or some sort of poodle mix. They think my Jacob sheep are goats though so it evens out. I have a lot of practice teaching people how to tell the difference between sheep and goats.

poppypatchFarm · #15 09/29/13, 01:11 PM

Always think it's funny how people claim the ears are cut off when there is a poster inches in front of their face explaining the short ears.

My brother raised Lamanchas and when he got tired of the ear questions he told people the ears are retractable. My Mom tells them their ears are about the same size as human ears which tends to quiet down the ones calling them ugly pretty quickly.

They often think our Nigerians are baby goats or the Moms telling their kids to watch HIM being milked. But our most frequently asked fair question has to be "where are the pigs?" Hopefully the week the pigs are at fair the pig people are asked continually "where are the goats?!"

dizzy · #16 09/29/13, 01:58 PM

I was at a zoo once. They had a pen full of goats. There was on whether in there-and he looked pregnant! Someone was looking at him and exclaim, that one's pregnant. Wonder when she's going to have her babies. Don't know if she believed me or not when I told her it was a boy.

I was at the local 4-H fair. Someone had a full sized horse and a mini in the same stall. There were all these people looking in and saying, oh look! This one has a baby!

Goatsandsheep · #17 09/29/13, 03:06 PM

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be glad you dont get asked a million times each day why the sheep are wearing blankets! =(

Oh we show sheep too, so we get asked that to. With the market goats we get ask people really eat goat meat? But honestly this year the bit about cutting of the ears was every 5 minutes.

Goat Servant · #18 09/29/13, 09:34 PM

I do hope you all know that all goats with horns are males. Females do not have horns.

Minelson · #19 09/29/13, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Goat Servant

I do hope you all know that all goats with horns are males. Females do not have horns.

Bwhahahaha!!! I forgot about that one!

parrotman · #20 09/30/13, 11:30 AM

I don't show my goats but when anyone comes to the farm, the first question they ask is when they are going to have their babies.
I tell them that if they do, I alert Ripleys as there isn't an intact buck here.
Might be that "Rubenesque" body shape that they have! WE don't use the "F" word here...they're just ample.