Goat Factoids

Friday, February 5, 2010

Amber Waves Pygmy Goats has an interesting page of goat facts. Here’s a small sampling:

They are mentioned many times in the Bible and are considered clean meat in kosher butchering.

Although domesticated, goats can revert back to living in the wild quickly.

Due to their unique digestive system, goats can eat almost any organic diet.

The Bovidae family, to which they belong, includes 140 species of cloven hooved mammals.

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