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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 10:53 AM Original message |
Goats: An overlooked pasture-raised animal |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. I eat goat about once a month. It's good stuff! |
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greytdemocrat (614 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Yes it is. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
40. Their milk is very good, and their skin make nice drums. |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. Dixon, CA. Home of the Lambtown Festival. |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Dixon area is home to a lot of goats |
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Retrograde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. If you're in the area, go just to see the sheepdog trials |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
3. Abe Lincoln's kids had pet goats in the White House |
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suffragette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
4. Mmm - cajeta lollipops |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
5. The FAO says the '70%' number is rubbish |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
6. They're too cute and sweet. I'm against it. nm |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:24 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I agree. They are too cute to eat. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. I'm cool with that. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
39. Cute? Sweet? Let's look at the figurative meanings |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. You could say the same for pigs other than the |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
8. Problems with goats |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I love it. Thanks for posting this. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:53 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. We are looking at nigerian dwarves. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I haven't owned dwarf goats so I am not sure |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:31 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. "They Can Jump Fences Almost as Well as Deer" |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. Their natural habitat in the wild seems to be as |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. A long time ago I read that the reason some country in the Caribbean |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:37 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. In Hawaii, Goats are Vermin |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. My retired veterinarian went to Haiti for several years |
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Retrograde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Unfortunately too common an occurance |
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Johnyawl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:24 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Not a bad idea... |
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A-Schwarzenegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. There is an old Fergerian myth that the reason that the moon is empty |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. I had that theory about Northern Africa until I learned about climate changes |
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A-Schwarzenegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:48 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. I prefer to leave the distant past where it belongs. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:31 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. Population and intensive farming didn't help either. I lived in Eritrea leading |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 10:33 PM Response to Reply #41 |
47. The archaeological reports I have seen about the Sahara population |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 12:40 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. I was thinking of recent desert encroachment in east Africa. In the |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 12:58 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Yeah, That is one of the consequences of climate change |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 01:02 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. There's just too many people using too much stuff. There will be |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Also, my goat raising neighbors tell me that they are |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:43 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. Now I didn't know that! |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
33. A friend of mine has goats and sheep in herds on his farm. He rotates pastures. |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:40 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Yes, any grazing animals should be rotated among pastures |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 10:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
46. good post |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
9. poor goats |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
10. We are planning to raise a small herd of goats. |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
15. Almost clipped two of them running from a field and then across the highway a couple |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
17. curry goat, yum! |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
43. Had it many years ago by a Jamaican cook, who was a friend of mine, |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
25. We raised goats for a couple of years. If there is one animal I have come to despise its a goat. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
27. Bad idea. Goats are weapons of environmental mass distruction. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. A goat will starve to death in a field of grass |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
29. When I was single, |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 10:14 PM Response to Reply #29 |
45. dogs were probably Anatolian Shepherds |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
31. Some of my neighbors raise goats and they use them |
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felix_numinous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
42. You could rent them out to clear kudzu |
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