The "  Poor Man's Cow "         A little bit of Goat History   Under the Wiederkaeuern the goat is after the sheep the oldest domestic animal - finds from the Jordan valley occupy this around 6700 v.Chr. The carrying time with goats amounts to 22 weeks. Usually 1 to 2 kids, also kitze are called, born in the winter/spring. Against epidemics goats are usually resistant. Goats can drink and know like camels on supply in times of distress owing to special kidney function some days without drinking water to survive in such a way. The usually earth colored skin has fine undercoat between rough grannenhair. Often also a beard is visible. The skin protects not only against cold weather, but also against heat. Between the hair tips and the skin a temperature difference of up to 50° C can actually develop. Characteristic the support smell is, particularly during the Brunst. Goat eyes: Slot pupils Everyone knows the "cat eyes": With large brightness the pupil in the eye of the cat pulls senkrechten together to a millimeter-thin line, while in the dawn the pupil is expanded to a large round circle. Why however do goats have transverse pupils? Therefore goats have horizontal pupil slot: The cat is a hunter, the goat a curse animal. For the hunter a good three-dimensional vision is important. Therefore the eyes are quasi parallel and the pupil slot perpendicular with the cat. For the goat as an escape animal a good all-round visibility is important, because hunters can lurk everywhere. The mainly vertically taking place narrowing of the pupil limits also on sunny days these visibilities not unnecessarily. Further question: Why in the photos taken up with flashlight are the pupils of humans greenish illustrated red, those of the goats?   Horns with goats Both sexes carry horns. There are hornless goats and which with 2, 4, 6 or even 8 horns. The most reliable characteristic for separation between house and game forms seems to be the bone tap of the horns. With the Bezoarziege (the prototype) this is rectangular in the cross section, while he is with house goats usually triangular. Progressive movement Sheep and goats have a similar grasp. In the dry regions of Abessinien, where the pasture is meager, the house goats changed over to the tree life. It erklettern shrubs with flat crowns of approximately 3-3.5 m height, where they can achieve the thorny branches. The game goats are very skillful Climers, it live in the mountains of west and Central Asia, Europe and North Africa. With the Klippspringern (Oreotragus), the Gaemsen, the snow goats, which steinboecken and others can do the two toes are spread and then strongly pressed together, so that they seize and hold small projections/leads. This ability sets the animals into the situation to defeat nearly vertical of cliffs which offer a minimum of starting points. There are  approx.. 130 Goat Species   Mountain goat  Capra ibex From the Mountain Goats, which are resident in all high mountains Eurasiens and North Africa, the alpine stone support is most well-known. It is more largely than the Tur. its horns becomes long and 15 kg heavy up to 1 m. The Siberian steinbock is somewhat smaller. Tur Caora caucasis To the Turen the actual Tur (overall length 1.6 m , schulterhoehe of 75 cm ) in the heights of the Caucasus and some other subspecies belong in the mountains of Spain. Markhor Capra falconeri A game form of some frontasiatic goat races is the "screw goat" resident from Buchara to the western Himalaja in Turkestan, Afghanistan and Belutschistan. Bezoarziege Capra aegagrus This master form of the house goat is common of Greece over small and Anterior Asia. There she inhabits rocky and ravine-rich mountain areas as well as half deserts with water places and meager plant stature and bush work. In the mountains of Crete and in west Asia over 1500 it seems to m height still reinrassig. The house goat Goats belong to the oldest domestic animals. These animals are not new kind, but a Subspezies of the game form. The goats probably began to develop approximately 1 million years ago. The domestic animal becoming probably began at the end of the ice age, in 10. Millenium before our time calculation. In the steinzeit the descendant of the game forms was already common in Asia and Europe far. Today the house goat is common nearly over the whole world.               The house goat   House goats have like sheep an almost unrestricted circulation area. By their genetic variety and different adjustment forms in size, weight and skin condition they can of the borders of the arctic up to dry deserts and moisten the Tropics everywhere to live. In the past the number of the goats held was always coupled with the economic situation in the country. If the times were limited badly and the food, one became conscious the good services of the goats, then the point populations always in the post-war period one reached. Momentarily the world goat existence is with approx.. 500 million goats, German record was 1920 with 5 million animals. The predominant number of the goats in Germany is held in supplementary income enterprises. About 93 % of the goats are held for 3 % in Europe in developing countries , only scarcely. Attitude Goats are pasture animals, them can all year round in the free one live. The far-most common and kind-fairest attitude form is the combined pasture/stable attitude. Importantly particularly in the winter a no-draught, bright shelter, which always a dry, with intersperse padded couch surface offers, is with an entrance after as outside as possible to a discharge or a run yard. Society must be! Goats have an intelligent, curious and deliberated mind. They are herd animals and should the contact to other goats to always maintain be able. If they are held without kind comrades, they will try to escape from this solitary confinement. They become aggressively, ill or die at isolation. Goat milk Today the goat products have to do nothing more with the "poor people image". Goat cheese is not to be excluded from the cheese bars of the Gourmet temples any longer. A goat gives in the year approx.. 1000 l milk (from this leave themselves approx.. 90 kg of cheese manufacture), that are the twentyfold of their body weight. Goat milk does not only symbolize the "taste of the homeland", but their also one welfare-end effect after-said. The goat supplies extremely fat-rich milk, which is extremely healthy particularly for children and old, ill humans. With cow's milk allergy goat milk is a outstanding replacement. Goat cheese places a special since age for many humans delicate-eats ago.        Sheep and goats:  Landscape conservation and environmental protection!   Animals enrich the garden and landscape gardening   Sheep and goats as landscape male nurses In order to use the grassland nature carefully and at the same time economically meaningfully, the Beweidung represents the optimal and only alternative to the Mahd. Sheep use the tongue, but the very mobile and for seizing suitable lips for holding the fodder not. That is also the cause for that particularly fine selection behavior and also for the relatively deep Abbiss. The sheep tear the grass by holding the plants between the lower schneidezaehnen and the upper Dentalplatte off, however with clearly stronger jerk than the cattle. The daily fodder photograph quantity lies between 2 and 3,5 kg of fodder dry weight. Also by the factors footstep and excrement are formed smallspatial differences. Pasture animals keep often certain paths, on which the compression, in addition, the vegetation scar destruction become particularly effective. Large pasture animals such as cattle and in particular horses influence alone because of their weight strong, while the footstep effect of goats and sheep is rather careful. The excrement delivery at proper ' toilets ' leads to a differentiated nutrient distribution. Excrement places are an enriching for the animal world: Numerous excrement-corrosive insects, e.g. mistkaefer, dung beetles, dung flies, are dependent on the Exkremente of pasture animals. These insects represent for their part again source of food for birds and other vertebrate animals. ______________________________________________________________________                                               GoatRock     Goat rock in Norway: Svolværgeite (Svolvær goat), a 40 meter high rock at the steep rock slope of the Fløya. It is a challenge for mountain climber (Erstbesteigung 1910), who wants to jump from a ' horn ' on the other hand. Even if this old Jewish parabola something "off topic" is - I find it beautiful: The rabbi asks its pupils, how one can recognize that the night is to end and the day begins. The first pupil answers: "if I from 300 m distance a sheep of a goat to differentiate can, then the night is to end." A second pupil says: "if I from 300 m a cowardly of an oil tree to differentiate can..." Thus the pupils continue to discuss, until them interrupt the rabbi and say to them: "if you a woman meet and, all the same whether she is black or white, you to it to say can, you are my sister. If you meet a man and, all the same whether he is rich or poor, you to him to say can, you are my brother. Then the night to end and the day are begin." Artilel : Courtiesy : Tier Lobby.de ( Tranlated from German to English)     www.cayoterune-world.com     Office : 903. 874. 1575  Corsicana, Tx.. 75110