Oh my goats !

Goats don’t graze on grass. Get a goat to clean up the grass of your beautiful lawn and it will devour all the shrubs but grass! This is because they are browsers and they prefer eating fruits, shoots, leaves, shrubs and plants.

‘Kids’ is the term used to collectively refer to baby goats. The term ‘kids’ was used to refer to baby goats since 1200s, it was used in a more generalized sense to refer to ‘children’ only in 1599.

Goats can stand on almost everything including humans, horses and everything they can lay their feet on and they don’t lose their balance. That’s because they originated in Anatolia’s Zagros Mountains and were habituated climbing cliffs and rocks.

Researchers based in London figured out that goats have accents! They figured out in a research that goats can change their accents when they move to a different group or when they grow up. Well, this discovery makes them the 4th mammal to be able to pick up accents. The other three are dolphins, elephants and of course, humans.

Goat milk is better than cow milk! This is because of the fact that goat milk is naturally homogenized. As a result, goat milk has 5 times fewer fat molecules than cow milk. This is the reason why goat milk can be easily digested.

Goats do not prefer to stay alone. They prefer at least one other goat as a companion but they readily accept the companionship of other animals too, specifically horses. It is because of this reason why racing horses are kept with companion goats. Usually one horse gets one companion goat. Goats seem to have a calming effect on the racing horses.

If trained properly, goats are capable of pulling carts and they can be put to work as pack animals. As pack animals they are better than horses and/or donkeys because of ease of maneuverability as they can move through thick bushes with ease.