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@CanuckBock Lol!, yup, you had it right, no one around the jacobs. From your posts I'd have to say this was the first ram I've ever seen, I didn't know they grew those horns so fast, I must have only seen very young or ewes before.....Lol!!
Travel around the dairy barns, cows, I think they eat and sleep with them, owners/breeders always there. This was a small local fair not as big as ours. No one around the pigs and very few around the horses none on the rabbits. I don't even want to mention the poultry, WOW, real crap, our poultry show was cancelled last yr cause of AI....none in NY but I guess taking precautions....We usually have some really nice 4H birds, this fair I was disappointed. Birds were definitely hatchery, and not good looking for type even, they didn't even have any water, I was super disappointed in the poultry. Nicest bird there was a sebastopol goose IMHO....

 

[CanuckBock]

Goats have beards (both genders)...

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Only goats have hangers on the side of their heads, like earrings, Heidi has a set of these. For the life of me I am drawing a blank as to the term we use for these...bangles or...sorry, memory is failing me right now...sigh!

I like Alaskan's dangly tentacles...it is wattles and duh...but how much can one recall on an empty gut, eh. WATTLES like a ding dang chook. hee hee.

Registered Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats - Heidi in front of mother Dixie
Heidy has wattles, Dixie don't
Neither doe has a beard

but Penny did​

No, did not mean to imply in anyway that ALL goats had "dangly tentacles" or beards/bells...indeed. There is the kicker in giving a generalization when comparing goat to sheep. Some in either species have this and that but tried my best to point out the differences you find only in sheep or only in goats and all the items they do share. No hard and fast rules and only takes one beast to break a rule...bend it to snapping...my kinda persona...rooles are meant to break to see how far the wiggle room goes.

More like male goats have beards (never all) but I was surprised that our Penny female had a multicoloured beard and she was a girl. Plus I had to ask what the bangles were on Heidi when I saw these bobbles where there. I don't know that they serve any purpose past perhaps decorations? Earrings...dunno but interesting. Sheep I have had have never had beards or wattles--so to me, another clue over goat or sheep when looking at a small beasty and trying to decide what label it adheres to.

Kewl so many of you knew the correct term for them wattles and I plum forgot it. Never heard them called BELLS before and that's a fine name for them too. Har har...I call old and forgetful FIRST dibs!

Furry haired photos at this link below of goaty wattles (and one too with ones on the side of ears...those are definately jockeying for the term EARRINGS in my books!)...

@CanuckBock Lol!, yup, you had it right, no one around the jacobs. From your posts I'd have to say this was the first ram I've ever seen, I didn't know they grew those horns so fast, I must have only seen very young or ewes before.....Lol!!
Travel around the dairy barns, cows, I think they eat and sleep with them, owners/breeders always there. This was a small local fair not as big as ours. No one around the pigs and very few around the horses none on the rabbits. I don't even want to mention the poultry, WOW, real crap, our poultry show was cancelled last yr cause of AI....none in NY but I guess taking precautions....We usually have some really nice 4H birds, this fair I was disappointed. Birds were definitely hatchery, and not good looking for type even, they didn't even have any water, I was super disappointed in the poultry. Nicest bird there was a sebastopol goose IMHO....

No worries BC...my first farm expo, my sis and I spent like half an hour running back and forth filling the waterfowl displays' water containers...oh they had them containers but well, they were geese and ducks and a full water container IS a play toy, eh.

We have fairs here too with randomly good or terrible poultry. Usually a sanctioned show (ABA or APA or both) will have up to snuff entries because the exhibitors demanded it be sanctioned and make it more authentic to a real show. I don't mind the corner country fair type shows...sometimes it is hard to wing up a decent entry to pay for a judge to judge it. Takes lots of volunteers to do a sanctioned show, never mind the funding.

Shows and fairs breach biosecure protocols for many which makes highlighting your poultry and livestock pretty nonexistent, don't it? Can't take the beasts and birds to show others, so harder to get the word out. Oh well. Just glad there are still persons willing to take living beings out to view for the Public. How many of us can say our first expose to decent stocks was at a show, eh? I thought all turkeys were bronze or white bb...until I saw my first heritage (Bourbon reds...magnificent) and my prays for a self fertile, long lived, intelligent turkey was answered. Thrilled all to pieces these kinds existed. Learned that by attending a sanctioned poultry show.

I tried talking to a poultry specialist about showing my live poultry at the local school and how to go about doing that without exposure to harm the birds. Talked about air sealed cases with outside air pumped in but it got quite out thar when he said even then, the air outside is no cleaner than a public inside place's air and I have to agree...so I just gave up and would do demos like an egg display showing bantam/standard landfowl/waterfowl (caught people trying to steal my eggs too...so I stuck pins in them and then you shoulda heard the whining on how I had KILLT a baby bird...good gack--so scramble them and call them an omelette already!) and did up mega posters and bought a pile of plushies to cutesy it up. I took a display course when I worked for Alberta Agriculture...

Oct 21 2008​

I quit doing the displays. So long as I was there every second...things were fine (and I pinned the eggs so they were not worth lifting...still amazes me that fellow fanciers would do that...whatever). I had the last straw when I took our display to a show/sale and people stole one of my plushies when I left for ten minutes for a bathroom break after hours of being there. Came back to find a mother and daughter putting a stuffed sheep back up...thinking it had fallen down and I even thanked them...not realizing I had actually blundered in on them in the midst of stealing a plushy llama and had moved a sheep to hide where the llama had been hanging. Stuff like that just blows my mind. I cannot fathom that attitude...makes me feel old and think about the good old days...mumble mumble

That pretty much ruined it for me. I costs us big time to do this PR work, so to be robbed doing it is just insulting...I replaced the plushy for fifteen bucks then quit it from then on.

No good deed goes unpunished they say, eh!

At these animal and bird fairs too, lots of diligent people go religiously and promote their breeds and such without even a thank you let alone someone offering to give them a break to bathroom (trustful types) or buying them a coffee or a cold drink. Same persons doing all the work and after the tenth or more...you see nobody else taking a turn, I know why you don't bother. I know some that drop off animals and leave and that is fine to a point but as you said, the diary persons where there and you could talk to a live person because you will have questions or at least like to say thanks for doing this too.

There is the pros to promotion and the cons. I truly love competition of my animals and love a good tussle over who's bird is better than whose, but yeh...that one day to beat my chest that MY bird kicked yer bird's butt around the show ring could end up with 363 days of misery if I brought home something nasty. I don't even go to the bird events any more...risk bringing home ILT in my nostrils or some new form of Marek's on my coat...yeh, snort bleach and gargle Lysol...gack!

I guess I can rest on my laurels because Rick and I did our time...exhibition bird club, llama, sheep, dog clubs...all wooden and used to beat yerself about the head with. The real joy is the happy animals and birds...so not had to give that up thus far...tone it back from bygone days but it is living the dream to wake up to roos crowing, geese shrieking and swans honking in the rising sunlight of another glorious day tripping about with so much to do and not having to get it all done in one day. I still laugh that people talk about the "swan song" that swans are silent till they are just about to die...sure, get right on that...Maybe the MUTE swan breed is...but the rest are a clatter and piping that would put a good goose to shame. The one pair can see me at the porch door pottying the dogs in the morning...they can carry on like huge when they spy me...especially the pen who gives me supreme crap..."Get those shoes on and get out here....now! My butt needs powdering and the water needs freshening..."

Love the life, love I have enough dirt to have not only all the birds we ever dreamed to own but also the ruminants. Love alot of things...still hate most people (capital T for trouble, eh) and glorious I have enough space to wander around demented and anti social, muttering to anything that will listen to my ramblings in the summer time...haven't shaved my legs in weeks and don't give a fig about it either! <scary wild woman...be afraid!... very!> I guess it is like deer season for some men who get bearded up, we'll clean up sooner or later...but not right now ... I know it's bad when I think I might get one more chore done and it is well past sundown (summer time...could be ten pm) when I should be inside eating or at least attempting to make a decent dinner.

Bring on September and normality soon...less cabin fever, have to be more presentable/respectable or I'll scare the kiddies on the bus. I swear one thing never to do...have straw in my hair... my son told me HIS bus driver would get on the afternoon run with straw in her hair from working with her cows...yeh, no straw herd broad for me...not yet!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Kusanar]

Heel low:

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I still laugh that people talk about the "swan song" that swans are silent till they are just about to die...sure, get right on that...Maybe the MUTE swan breed is...but the rest are a clatter and piping that would put a good goose to shame.

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Lol, I laughed when I heard that. My parents and I were at a zoo once and they had black swans in one of the little waterways that went though the zoo and I managed to get them to swim over to me honking the whole way... lol, there were lots of confused people watching that... I didn't have food, nor did I try to make them think I did, I'm really not sure what I did that got their attention, I just tend to have that effect on wild (or other peoples) animals that you wouldn't think would just wander up to you (especially since they were ignoring the other thousand or so people at the zoo....)

 

[perchie.girl]

check out this goat from Packastan


more like a small deer in size.

No wattles OR beard... very interesting

deb

 

[chickisoup]

check out this goat from Packastan


more like a small deer in size.

No wattles OR beard... very interesting

deb

Western or English on the saddle???

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Yeah right?

I have never seen a picture of a female but they are supposed to be Dairy goats.

 

[bruceha2000]

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A young goat is a kid, a young sheep is a lamb and one that drives me batty...a group of GOATS is a herd...a group of SHEEP is a flock. Get it right peoples!

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Got goose stew for dinner to heat up...away I must wander...

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

And a group of crows is a "murder". Who made up these names anyway??

check out this goat from Packastan


more like a small deer in size.

No wattles OR beard... very interesting

deb

"Small deer"? That sucker is way bigger than deer I've seen. Either that or the man is a midget.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: That is bigger than any one I had ever seen.. I grew up on a cattle farm

 

[perchie.girl]

Ive only seen mule deer.... they were taller than my car.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ive only seen mule deer.... they were taller than my car.

Yes I have seen them so maybe they have a variation over there
I was sent to Israel back about 94 for Ibezen hounds.. escort took me to the hotel
then the breeders home back to the hotel next day back to the plane