Baby Goats

spittin_in_the_wind · Post by **spittin_in_the_wind** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:17 pm

My kids and I (no pun intended) got to see a baby goat get born this evening. So sweet. It's amazing how a fully-formed creature can emerge from the body of another. Simply amazing. And baby goats are so, sooo cute! I'm sure the kids won't ever forget it.

Robin

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:22 pm

I've seen nothing cuter than a baby goat!

Ours keep getting stuck. We are getting pretty good at fishin' 'em out though.

Denny

spittin_in_the_wind · Post by **spittin_in_the_wind** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:25 pm

This one was stuck too, as was his sister. But all turned out ok. CUTE!!!!

Robin

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:28 pm

spittin_in_the_wind wrote:My kids and I (no pun intended) got to see a baby goat get born this evening. So sweet. It's amazing how a fully-formed creature can emerge from the body of another. Simply amazing. And baby goats are so, sooo cute! I'm sure the kids won't ever forget it.

Robin

Oh, I just love those babies. They are so much fun to watch.

When I was a vet tec I once spent three months working with one of those guys who was born with blindness and other neuro problems. The doctor wanted to try to help him. I was finally able to teach him to suck from a bottle(no suckling reflex) and to stand and walk a bit. Sadly, they ended up putting him down because he never progressed enough to live unassisted. That was hard. I would have taken him home if I could have.
Your post reminded me of him.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:07 am

Baaaaa!

Or, in German, Bäääää!

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:02 am

Don't forget!

One more goat means one more potential bodhran.

Mukade

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:07 am

mukade wrote:Don't forget!

One more goat means one more potential bodhran.

Mukade

There's no need to kill a sentient creature to make a part of a musical instrument. It's silly and cruel.

Synthetic bodhrans may or may not sound as good, but they're certainly not as painful to the animals whose lives might be spared by their use.

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:46 am

Cranberry wrote:
mukade wrote:Don't forget!

One more goat means one more potential bodhran.

Mukade
There's no need to kill a sentient creature to make a part of a musical instrument. It's silly and cruel.

Synthetic bodhrans may or may not sound as good, but they're certainly not as painful to the animals whose lives might be spared by their use.

Calm down Cran. It was a joke about bodhran players, not killing goats.

FYI, I have been a vegetarian for 20 years

Mukade

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:23 am

mukade wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
mukade wrote:Don't forget!

One more goat means one more potential bodhran.

Mukade
There's no need to kill a sentient creature to make a part of a musical instrument. It's silly and cruel.

Synthetic bodhrans may or may not sound as good, but they're certainly not as painful to the animals whose lives might be spared by their use.
Calm down Cran. It was a joke about bodhran players, not killing goats.

FYI, I have been a vegetarian for 20 years

Mukade

Slan,
D.

missy · Post by **missy** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:29 am

awww - I just love goats!
Someday - when we get a lot of property - I want to have some goats.
(and horses, etc.etc.etc.)

Missy

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:08 am

missy wrote:awww - I just love goats!
Someday - when we get a lot of property - I want to have some goats.
(and horses, etc.etc.etc.)

Missy

I have a friend who has several she'd like very much to get rid of...

missy · Post by **missy** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:09 am

thanks, annie - but somehow I don't think the laws in the city here would tolerate goat raising!!!

Someone would probably think they were pit bulls.

Missy

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:58 am

We have goats, and I've seen and helped quite a few get born(including the one in my avatar).

It never gets old. It's so sad when they don't make it, though. We aren't breeding one of our does anymore because she has very narrow hips and her babies tend to get stuck.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 11:36 am

mukade wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
mukade wrote:Don't forget!

One more goat means one more potential bodhran.

Mukade
There's no need to kill a sentient creature to make a part of a musical instrument. It's silly and cruel.

Synthetic bodhrans may or may not sound as good, but they're certainly not as painful to the animals whose lives might be spared by their use.
Calm down Cran. It was a joke about bodhran players, not killing goats.

FYI, I have been a vegetarian for 20 years

Mukade

I'm sorry.

That's good to know. I hear being vegetarian or vegan in Japan is really easy. I've been a vegetarian for years and years too (though not 20 years).

Many people on this forum love their goat skin bodhrans and see nothing wrong with beating on dead goats' skin just for musical pleasure, so I was kinda on edge for that, I guess.

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 9:26 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Many people on this forum love their goat skin bodhrans and see nothing wrong with beating on dead goats' skin just for musical pleasure....

Or eating them either, which there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with doing.

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