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
I’ve seen nothing cuter than a baby goat!
Ours keep getting stuck. We are getting pretty good at fishin’ 'em out though.
Denny
This one was stuck too, as was his sister. But all turned out ok. CUTE!!!
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.
Baaaaa!
Or, in German, Bäääää! 
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.
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…
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
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. 
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.
Or eating them either, which there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with doing.
There’s plenty wrong if we don’t have to eat them to survive (i.e. would starve to death otherwise), and in western civilisation we usually don’t have to. We don’t have to kill any person or animal usually to stay alive. It’s a choice, whether or not to kill or support the killing of animals or people for food, shoes, musical instruments and on and on.
This thread needs a good vegetable rights activist…
If one is to keep dairy goats, then one will have 1 to 3 kids a year. What do you do with them?
Denny
currently feeding 2 wethers…
…but the feta is great!
We’ve actually had this discussion (in particular with regards to bodhrans and the use of goat skin) at least twenty times on the other forum. Every time it comes up I am tempted to grab the bait (artificial of course ) and run with it again, but really everything that is going to be sad has been said, so I’d just ask you to find those threads.
I always thought feta was too crumbly to grate… hmmm…
Actually, we do have to eat animals, as it’s the only way you can get vitamin B12. There are several other vitamins which are easiest to get from animals. so unless you want to pop pills for the rest of your life, or be very unhealthy, you’re going to have to eat some animal products. And popping pills is way more unnatural than eating a goat or two occasionally. As long as you don’t eat two in one sitting. That’s pretty unnatural.