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Goats can smell their own milk in the baby's poo, which is why they sniff their hind ends to tell one another apart.. So, if you're stealing babies and bottle feeding them their own mama's milk, yeah, they'll "remember" them..
Incidentally, they'll also "remember" any other kid that gets their milk, which is how you graft kids onto different mamas.
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Also, I'd love to know how it can be determined that two sibling "remember" each other after years of seperation.. Perhaps the funniest part of that little tale is that you pluralized it -- "stories." Not just one story, but multiple stories.
I'd settle for a link to just one such story with a shred of credibility, but I'm not gonna hold my breath..
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Right, because the deer don't go walking -- and pooping, and peeing -- through the field where the goats eat anyway. Perhaps you don't have a lot of deer wherever you're from, but we're overrun..
Whatever the deer in our area may have that's communicable to goats, there would be absolutely no way to prevent the goats from getting it.
I'll tell you this much, too...the goats around here -- meat goats, mostly -- are one hell of a lot more diseased and distressed than the whitetail ever thought about being.
Goats can smell their own milk in the baby's poo, which is why they sniff their hind ends to tell one another apart.. So, if you're stealing babies and bottle feeding them their own mama's milk, yeah, they'll "remember" them..
Incidentally, they'll also "remember" any other kid that gets their milk, which is how you graft kids onto different mamas.
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Also, I'd love to know how it can be determined that two sibling "remember" each other after years of seperation.. Perhaps the funniest part of that little tale is that you pluralized it -- "stories." Not just one story, but multiple stories.
I'd settle for a link to just one such story with a shred of credibility, but I'm not gonna hold my breath..
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Right, because the deer don't go walking -- and pooping, and peeing -- through the field where the goats eat anyway. Perhaps you don't have a lot of deer wherever you're from, but we're overrun..
Whatever the deer in our area may have that's communicable to goats, there would be absolutely no way to prevent the goats from getting it.
I'll tell you this much, too...the goats around here -- meat goats, mostly -- are one hell of a lot more diseased and distressed than the whitetail ever thought about being.
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