Goat Terminology

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Is there a tab on here anywhere with goat terminology? For those of us new to the goat world I think it would be really valuable.

Like,

wether:
freshening:
buds:
etc. and the list goes on.

I know all of this stuff seems very elementary after a while, but if you are just jumping in, I think it would be helpful. There may already be a list, and I just don't know where it is.

 

[goodolboy]

Really, I think all the goat people just make those words up to confuse the rest of us.

 

[Southern by choice]

I agree with both of you!!!!!!

Try looking under some of the "sticky's". If not you could compile one!


BTW- I feel the same way with sheep...I'm new to sheep!

 

[goodolboy]

Sheep talk is the language in which speech originated.

 

[Riverside Fainters]

http://www.extension.org/pages/27530/goat-glossary-of-terms

 

[Southern by choice]

Sheep talk is the language in which speech originated.

 

[BarredRockMomma]

wether: castrated male
freshening: after kidding when a goat can be milked "fresh"
buds: start of horns

 

[goodolboy]

I guess the goat people made up another word "Straw Hat" meaning: to sleep in the barn with dogs.

 

[Southern by choice]

 

[Southern by choice]

Is there a tab on here anywhere with goat terminology? For those of us new to the goat world I think it would be really valuable.

Like,

wether:
freshening:
buds:
etc. and the list goes on.

I know all of this stuff seems very elementary after a while, but if you are just jumping in, I think it would be helpful. There may already be a list, and I just don't know where it is.

Glad you put this up. I was going to do a page on my website for goat and poultry terminology and had been wavering.
I guess I will now...Thanks StubbornHill.... you just made more work for me!