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RE: FOR THE LOVE OF GOATS - LESSON 2
This is something that I had never got when I studied about small ruminants at university, better than the text book because this came from the heart and life experience. Thank you @buckaroo for your informative posts and lovely photos too. Someone needs to have a good passion to keep the goats IMO, in my hometown.. it's quite difficult to find a homesteader who also has goats meat or dairy) even in the country side.. the owner let the goats roaming around others yards and the street too. Maybe because they only care about the price when its ready to sell.
@cicisaja sadly it is the same here in the more rural areas. The animals are left to roam the rubbish dumps, highways and byways. They are usually in very bad condition but their owners simply view them as food or a means to make money. I hate that. My goats are part of the family first. And second they give us food and help us make some money
I think that's why there is an animal husbandry faculty at the university 😊 to change the extensive to intensive way of raising and caring for the "source of food" or "the source of money" .. And funny things is even after more than 50 years of animal's science development.. still, we can not change the habit.
I love to read how you take care your dairy goats and treating them as part of family not just a commodity😊 I have a neighbour who used to watch for her goats while roaming around my rental house in Aceh, but she let her goats demolishs my jackfruit baby tree 😅 and goats here so fond of the jackfruit leaves.
Old habits are hard to change @cicisaja
Sorry that you lost your jackfruit tree. We've lost plenty trees and good chunks of our veggie garden to my naught goats! I still love them though