Goats Sentence Examples

We bring the goats in from this side and let them out the other when we're milking, but during the inclement days they stay in this barn.

Two of the goats had gone into labor, so she transferred them to the building on the release side of the dairy, where they had set up temporary kidding stalls.

Is one of the goats sick?

You told me you were coming up to see the goats give birth.

I'm going to start milking a few goats and making some cheese.

She was sure stubborn about the goats with Josh.

Maybe the goats had some kind of control over commencement of labor.

That put everyone at risk, but her goats were the easiest targets.

Together they got the goats in the barn and locked the doors.

Selling the dairy goats had erased a part of her identity.

It would be used as winter fodder for the two goats she had kept.

How he expected to achieve that by feigning interest in the goats was a mystery, but at least he cared enough to make an effort.

She leaned over the gate, calling his name softly so that the goats wouldn't be frightened.

The land would get overgrown with brush in the summer if I didn't have the goats to keep it cleared off.

Goats have two spigots instead of four, but the milking machinery is basically the same.

We don't have any goats down in Texas.

The goats were staying close to the house today.

Some of the more friendly goats had followed her up the hill and they were ranging out ahead.

Can you get Brutus to take the goats back to the barn?

The goats always produced way more than the babies needed.

Here's one you should know after raising dairy goats.

The trees flowed gracefully down the mountain side, ending in the pasture where the goats used to graze.

He guarded your dairy herd and he's watching your goats now.

Are the goats staying closer to the house?

Few cattle, but numbers of sheep, goats and swine are reared.

An encounter with a small herd of mostly black feral goats on the final descent rounded off a real day to remember.

I haven't noticed, but Brutus has been here a lot, so I guess the goats have been too.

How did a woman who loved goats bring herself to eat them?

Of course, it wasn't native to North America, but neither were her goats.

Still, goats and sheep had been in North America for hundreds of years.

Only a buffalo cow right now - and a couple of Angora goats Carmen bought for me.

She kept a couple of goats that are supposed to kid in February.

All but a few of the goats had been gone over a year now, but she rarely had time to think about them anymore.

Alex had nursed them back to health and released them in the area where the goats had been kept when she owned the dairy.

A Nubian goat and her three kids shared the rocky terrain, along with a couple of Angora goats.

He might have pictured cattle or horses — even goats, but elk and buffalo?

The area where the goats had been provided good grazing, but he was concerned about the wild dog problem she had experienced in the past.

No, I just got rid of the goats and started doing the work you thought I was suited to.

I'm having an area fenced in so I can let the goats run in there and eat the brush.

They're fencing off an area for the goats to run.

Second, I prefer not lifting the goats over the fence to get them into the barn, and third, if you'd let me finish …" "You can't just put up a fence, Carmen.

The men finished the fence and the goats are running in the south hills.

Are the goats cleaning it up pretty good?

I know goats aren't native to the United States, but neither are Longhorns.

They did pose a threat to Carmen's goats, though.

She could use one if she was going to run goats again.

It wasn't until she mentioned that goats were as much a part of American history as Longhorns that he realized how much she missed them.

Pigs and goats, however, with cattle, horses, asses and dogs, have been introduced, have multiplied, and in considerable numbers run wild.

Fernandez obtained from the Spanish government a grant of the islands, where he resided for some time, stocking them with goats and pigs.

Pigs and goats were then abundant on the islands.

Pigs, sheep and goats are also kept in considerable numbers.

Sheep and goats form almost.

Goats are kept in the mountainous regions (Auvergne, Provence, Corsica).

On many of the islets numerous tropical fruits are found growing wild, but they are no doubt escapes from cultivation, just as the large herds of wild cattle, horses, donkeys, pigs, goats and dogs - the last large and fierce - which occur abundantly on most of the islands have escaped from domestication.

Except on Charles Island, where settlement has existed longest, little or no influence of the presence of man is evident in the group; still, the running wild of dogs and cats, and, as regards the vegetation, especially goats, must in a comparatively short period greatly modify the biological conditions of the islands.

A secondary industry is the raising of goats, which are able to stand neglect and a scanty food supply.

This has been due to speculation, to the unrestricted pasturage of goats, to the rights which many communes have over the forests, and to some extent to excessive taxation, which led the proprietors to cut and sell the trees and then abandon the ground to the Treasury.

Similarly, the number of goats, which are reared only in hilly regions, is decreasing, especially on account of the existing forest laws, as they are the chief enemies of young plantations.

Of imported animals, cattle, goats, asses and dogs thrive well, ponies and horses indifferently, and sheep badly, though some success has been achieved in breeding them.

Live-stock breeding is very extensively carried on by the Kirghiz, namely, horses, cattle, sheep, camels, goats and pigs.

The number being so great, it was decided to offer 500 goats yearly.

Two goats were provided by the ancient Hebrews on the Day of Atonement; the high priest sent one into the desert, after confessing on it the sins of Israel; it was not permitted to run free but was probably cast over a precipice; the other was sacrificed as a sin-offering.

Sheep abound in the more temperate regions, and goats are universally met with; both of these animals are used as beasts of burden in the mountains of Tibet.

Outside the European area vegetation spirits of all kinds seem to be conceived, as a rule, as anthropomorphic; in classical Europe, and parts of the Slavonic area at the present day, the tree spirit was believed to have the form of a goat, or to have goats' feet.

In summer the country appears as one waving field of wheat, millet and mealies; whilst on the mountain slopes and on their flat tops are large flocks of sheep, cattle and goats, and troops of ponies.

The adult stage, for example, has been found in the nasal passages of sheep, goats, horses and even of man, and the larval stage in the pleural and peritoneal cavities of dogs and cats.

The Attic plain, notwithstanding the lightness of the soil, furnished an adequate supply of cereals; olive and fig groves and vineyards were cultivated from the earliest times in the valley of the Cephisus, and pasturage for sheep and goats was abundant.

The Formosan fauna has been but partially ascertained; but at least three kinds of deer, wild boars, bears, goats, monkeys (probably Macacus speciosus), squirrels, and flying squirrels are fairly common, and panthers and wild cats are not unfrequent.

Their services to their owners and to Arctic explorers are well known, but Eskimo dogs are so rapacious that it is impossible to train them to refrain from attacking sheep, goats or any small domesticated animals.

The Somali have also large herds of cattle - oxen, sheep and goats.

Wild sheep and goats live in the Rocky Mountains.

The space between the nostrils and the upper lip is covered with short close hair, as in sheep and goats, without any trace of the bare muzzle of oxen.

Horses, asses, cows, deer, sheep, goats, swine, cats and dogs were introduced by the early Spaniards.

There is one enormous boa, the maja (Epicrates angulifer), which feeds on pigs, goats and the like, but does not molest man.

We thus see that the American and the European-Asiatic elements of the flora are nearly equivalent; and if the flora of Arctic North America were better known, the number of plants common to America might be still more enlarged.5 In the south, a few goats, sheep, oxen and pigs have been introduced.

Goats, from the milk of which choice cheese is made, and pigs are plentiful.

They kept horses (though in small numbers), sheep and goats, but no traces of their rearing horned cattle have yet been found.

A considerable trade is carried on in the export of horses, buffaloes, goats, dinding (dried flesh), skins, birds' nests, wax, rice, katyang, sappanwood, &c. Sumbawa entered into treaty relations with the Dutch East India Company in 1674.

Goats are bred and coco-nuts cultivated, but fishing is the chief industry.

Nearly all the land is in the hands of peasant proprietors, who cultivate sweet potatoes, peas, beans, corn, &c., and rear sheep and goats.

Goats have been found highly profitable in many of the middle Atlantic states, where the long dry seasons render the campos unsuitable for cattle pasturage.

In 1908 Europeans were returned as owning 32,000 horses, 220,000 horned cattle, 765,000 sheep, 68,000 goats, 25,000 pigs, 960 ostriches and 384,000 poultry.

Large herds of cattle - over 500,000 in the aggregate - are owned by the natives, who also possess vast flocks of goats and sheep. The dairy industry is well established, and Natal butter commands a ready sale.

There are also large flocks of sheep, cows, goats, ponies, fine dogs and Bactrian camels.

The breeding of goats and swine is an important industry in some regions.

The Bovidae comprise a great number of genera and species, and include the oxen, sheep, goats, antelopes and certain other kinds which come under neither of these designations.

The second group, or Caprinae, includes the sheep and goats, which are smaller animals than most of the Bovidae, generally with horns in both sexes, but those of the females small.

The genera are Ovis (sheep), Capra (goats) and Hemitragus (tahr).

Sheep and goats are very nearly related, but the former never have a beard on the chin of the males, which are devoid of a strong odour; and their horns are typically of a different type.

There are, however, several more or less transitional forms. Tahr are short-horned goats.

The lowland strip or Tehama consists partly of a gravelly plain, the Khabt, covered sparsely with acacia and other desert shrubs and trees, and furnishing pasturage for large flocks of goats and camels; and partly of sterile wastes of sand like the Ramla, which extends on either side of Aden almost from the seashore to the foot of the hills.

The great wealth of the Arabs is in their flocks of sheep and goats; they are led out to pasture soon after sunrise, and in the hotter months drink every second day.

In the absence of face-glands and in the structure of the horns the species approximates to the goats.

There are large herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats.

Goats are raised in Piura and Lambayeque for their skins and fat, and swine-breeding for the production of lard has become important in some of the coast valleys immediately north of Lima.

Fruits and vegetables are plentiful, and there are large herds of buffaloes, goats and sheep. Silkworms are reared.

There is a considerable extent of pasture land, and the rearing of cattle, sheep, pigs and goats is largely practised.

Included in Kingsbridge is the little town of Dodbrooke, which at the time of the Domesday Survey had a population of 42, and a flock of 108 sheep and 27 goats; and in 1257 was granted a Wednesday market and a fair at the Feast of St Mary Magdalene.

There are exceptionally fine breeds of cattle, asses and goats; cows of a large and very powerful build are used for ploughing.

The principal exports of local produce are potatoes, cumin seed, vegetables, oranges, goats and sheep, cotton goods and stone.

The destruction of its forests has led to the loss of all its alluvial soil, and now it is for the most part a brown and barren rock, covered at best with scanty aromatic scrub, pastured by sheep and goats.

The group at the present day is divided into Girafjidae (giraffe and okapi), Cervidae (deer), Antilocapridae (prongbuck), and Bovidae (oxen, sheep, goats, antelopes, &c.).

On the plateaus large numbers of cattle, goats and sheep are reared.

Some, for instance, may consider that the chamois and the so-called white goat of the Rocky Mountains are entitled to be included in the group; but this is not the view held by the authors of the Book of Antelopes referred to below; and, as a matter of fact, the term is only a vague designation for a number of more or less distinct groups of hollow-horned ruminants which do not come under the designation of cattle, sheep or goats; and in reality there ought to be a distinct English groupname for each subfamily into which "antelopes" are subdivided.

No true antelopes are American, the prongbuck (Antilocapra), which is commonly called "antelope" in the United States, representing a distinct group; while, as already mentioned, the Rocky Mountain or white goat stands on the borderland between antelopes and goats.

In concluding, this survey of living antelopes, reference may be made to the subfamilyRupicaprinae (typified by the European chamois), the members of which, as already stated, are in some respects intermediate between antelopes and goats.

Mountain goats are quite numerous on the Cascades.

Sheep numbered over 5,000,000 in 1910, cattle over 600,000, horses over 100,000, goats (chiefly owned by natives) over 1,000,000.

Sheep are most abundant in the Rouxville, Wepener and Smithfield districts, goats in Philippolis.

Its chief exports are diamonds, live stock (cattle, horses and mules, sheep and goats), wool, mohair, coal, wheat and eggs.

They kept horses, cattle, sheep, goats and swine.

It feeds chiefly on fruit and roots, but kills sheep, goats, deer, ponies and cattle, and sometimes devours carrion.

Bears, wolves, foxes, goats (kokmet), wild sheep (arkharis), lizards, earth-rats, and a small rodent (teshikan), with ravens, eagles, wild ducks and wild geese are the other varieties principally encountered.

The dung of black cattle, horses, sheep, goats, &c., which contains sal ammoniac ready formed, is collected during the first four months of the year, when the animals feed on the spring grass, a kind of clover.

Some of the plains afford good pasturage for camels, asses, goats and cattle; others are desert tablelands.

Near it is the goats' whey cure establishment of Heinrichsbad, and the two castles of Rosenberg and Rosenburg, ruined in 1403 when the land rose against its lord, the abbot of St Gall.

Goats and chickens run wild.

Cattle, swine and goats are raised, and the state produces coffee, sugar, cacao, beans, cereals and cheese.

It preys upon almost any animal it can overcome, such as antelopes, deer, sheep, goats, monkeys, peafowl, and has a special liking for dogs.

Some attention is given to the breeding of goats because of the local demand for their skins, but the industry is apparently stationary.

According to this report, which is not strictly trustworthy, there were in the republic 5,142,457 cattle, 859,217 horses, 334,435 mules, 287,991 asses, 3,424,430 sheep, 4,206,011 goats and 616,139 swine.

Two years later home consumption returns noted the slaughter of 958,058 cattle (129,938 in the Federal District), 561,982 sheep, 992,263 goats and 887,130 hogs - the last item being larger than the census return of 1902.

The wealth of the Bechuana consists principally in their cattle, which they tend with great care, showing a shrewd discrimination in the choice of pasture suited to oxen, sheep and goats.

Swine, which are reared in great numbers in the plains, yield the famous Westphalian hams; and the rearing of cattle and goats is important.

Although the more typical goats are markedly distinct from sheep, there is, both as regards wild and domesticated forms, an almost complete gradation from goats to sheep, so that it is exceedingly difficult to define either group. The position of the genus Capra (to all the members of which, as well as some allied species, the name "goat" in its wider sense is applicable) in the family Bovidae is indicated in the article Bovidae, and some of the distinctions between goats and sheep are mentioned in the article Sheep. Here then it will suffice to mention that goats are characterized by the strong and offensive odour of the males, which are furnished with a beard on the chin; while as a general rule glands are present between the middle toes of the fore feet only.

Goats, in the wild state, are an exclusively old-world group, of which the more typical forms are confined to Europe and south-western and central Asia, although there are two outlying species in northern Africa.

Domesticated goats have run wild in many islands, such as the Hebrides, Shetland, Canaries, Azores, Ascension and Juan Fernandez.

Although there have in all probability been more or less important local crosses with other wild species, there can be no doubt that domesticated goats generally are descended from the wild goat.

It is true that many tame goats show spirally twisted horns recalling those of the under-mentioned Asiatic markhor; but in nearly all such instances it will be found that the spiral twists in the opposite direction.

Firstly, we have the common or European goats, of which there are several more or less well-marked breeds, differing from each other in length of hair, in colour and slightly in the configuration of the horns.

It has been supposed by many that these are traceable to foreign blood; but although there are foreign breeds that possess them, they appear to pertain quite as much to the English native breeds as to those of distant countries, the peculiarity being mentioned in very old works on the goats of the British Islands.

Irish goats often yield a quantity of milk, but the quality is poor.

The goats of France are similar to those of Britain, varying in length of hair, colour and character of horns.

Those goats having a short, neat head, long, thin, ears, a delicate skin, small bones, and a long heavy coat, are for this purpose deemed the best.

Among goats met with in England a good many show signs of a more or less remote cross with this breed, derived probably from specimens brought from the East on board ships for supplying milk during the voyage.

As regards wild goats other than the representatives of Capra hircus, the members of the ibex-group are noticed under Ibex, while another distinctive type receives mention under Markhor.

It is one of the species which render it so difficult to give a precise definition of either sheep or goats.

The short-horned Asiatic goats of the genus Hemitragus receive mention in the article Tahr; but it may be added that fossil species of the same genus are known from the Lower Pliocene formations of India, which have also yielded remains of a goat allied to the markhor of the Himalayas.

The forests are extensive and fine, and are now superintended by government officials, called 8avod, XaKEs, in spite or with the connivance of whom the timber is being rapidly destroyed - partly from the merciless way in which it is cut by the proprietors, partly from its being burnt by the shepherds, for the sake of the rich grass that springs up after such conflagrations, and partly owing to the goats, whose bite kills all the young growths.

Their merchandise consists of sheep and goats, gum and resin, skins and ostrich feathers.

Of these there were counted in 1900 1,115,022 head of horned cattle, 824,000 sheep, 1,556,000 pigs, and 230,000 goats.

In the absence of faceglands, as well as in certain other features, the bharal serves to connect more typical sheep with goats.

Goats are fed in considerable number on the brushwood pasture of the hills; and hares (in spite of Aristotle's supposed assertion of their absence) are exceptionally abundant.

The destruction of considerable portions of the forests by cattle, goats, insects, fire and cutting has been followed by reforesting, the planting of hitherto barren tracts, the passage of severe forest fire laws, and the establishment of forest reserves, of which the area in 1909 was 545,746 acres, of which 357,180 were government land.

Among domesticated animals are to be found the horse, mule, donkey, cattle, sheep and goats, dogs, fowls and pigs, ducks and geese.

Here are to be found yak, wild asses (kyang), several varieties of deer, musk deer and Tibetan antelope (Pantholops); also wild sheep (the bharal of the Himalaya), Ovis hodgsoni and possibly Ovis poli, together with wild goats, bears (in large numbers in the north-eastern districts), leopards, otter, wolves, wild cats, foxes, marmots, squirrels, monkeys and wild dogs.

In many districts where such woods once existed, their place has been occupied by the Scottish pine and spruce, which suffer less from the ravages of goats, the worst enemies of tree vegetation.

Goats are most numerous in Gelderland and North Brabant.

The Carnivora include bears, wolverines, wolves, raccoons, foxes, sables, martens, skunks, kolinskis, fitch, fishers, ermines, cats, sea otters, fur seals, hair seals, lions, tigers, leopards, lynxes, jackals, &c. The Rodentia include beavers, nutrias, musk-rats or musquash, marmots, hamsters, chinchillas, hares, rabbits, squirrels, &c. The Ungulata include Persian, Astrachan, Crimean, Chinese and Tibet lambs, mouflon, guanaco, goats, ponies, &c. The Marsupialia include opossums, wallabies and kangaroos.

Some of these are reared upon extensive wild farms. In addition there are domestic fur-bearing animals, such as Persian, Astrachan and Chinese lambs, and goats, easily bred and available.

See also remarks as to caracul kid under Goats, above.

Many Mongolian goats with the long hairs pulled out are sold as mouflon.

Considerable herds of cattle are reared on the rich pastures of the lower Rhine, but the number of sheep in the province is comparatively small, and is, indeed, not greatly in excess of that of the goats.

There are large herds of camel, the camel-owning Arabs usually owning also large numbers of sheep and goats.

The kidney fat of all sheep and the skins of all goats slaughtered in the public yard are perquisites of government, the former being used for the manufacture of soap, which, with snuff, is a government monopoly.

Away from the banks of the rivers, between the Euphrates and the Tigris and between the latter and the Persian mountains, are tribes of wandering Arabs, some of whom possess great herds of horses, sheep, goats, asses and camels, while in and by the marshes other tribes, in the transition stage from the nomadic to the settled life, own great herds of buffaloes.

Goats are found everywhere, but especially in the hilly districts.

Sheep and goats, which subsist more easily on scanty pasturage, are relatively more numerous, the total number being calculated at 700,000.

Herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats are numerous throughout the country.

Domestic A nimals.-The Egyptians are not particularly a pastora people, though the wealth of the Bedouin in the Eastern or Arabia, i Desert consists in their camels, horses, sheep and goats.

Sheep (of which the greater number are black) and goats are abundant, and mutton is the ordinary butchers meat.

The people reared fowls, sheep, goats, &c., and the prices were one-sixth, or even one-tenth, of those at present.

On the night of the 6th of May a combined movement was made from Suakin and Otao, which resulted in the surprise and break-up of a force of the enemy under Mahommed Sardun, and the capture of a large number of sheep and goats.

At these goats were sacrificed to him with libations of wine and milk, and he was implored to be propitious to fields and flocks.

Formerly the island appears to have been wooded, but it now presents only a few bushes (Edwardsia, Broussonetia, &c.), ferns, grasses, sedges, &c. The natives grow bananas in the shelter of artificial pits, also sugar-canes and sweet potatoes, and keep a few goats and a large stock of domestic fowls, and a Tahitian commercial house breeds cattle and sheep on the island.

The plot of ground which can support a single cow (or 2 heifers, 3 calves or sheep, 4 pigs or 8 goats) is called a Kuhstoss (of which there are 270,389 in Switzerland), and it is in these terms that the productiveness of the alp is reckoned.

The parables of the two debtors, the labourers in the vineyard, the two sons, the ten virgins, the sheep and goats, are recorded only by this evangelist.

Pigs and sheep of a small, coarse-woolled breed, are numerous; and large herds of goats wander in an almost wild state over the higher hills.

A columnar cave exists towards the northern side of the island, and on the eastern are the remains of a tower, with several vaulted rooms. Two springs occur and some scanty grass affords subsistence to rabbits, and, on the higher levels, to goats.

Its political capital is Trogen, though the largest town is Herisau, while Teufen has 4595 inhabitants, and Heiden (3745 inhabitants) in the north-east corner is the most frequented of the many goats' whey cure resorts for which the entire canton is .famous (Urnasch and Gais are also in Ausser Rhoden).

Its political capital is Appenzell, which is also the largest village, while Weissbad (near it) and Gonten are the best-known goats' whey cure resorts.

They own large numbers of cattle, sheep and goats.

The goats, generally black or parti-coloured, seem to be a degenerate variety of the shawl-goat.

The pine and oak were sacred to him, and his offerings were goats, lambs, cows, new wine, honey and milk.

Besides camels and oxen, sheep and goats are numerous, and meat, hides and butter are articles of local trade.

There are many goats but only a few sheep. In one district near Manila duck-raising is of considerable importance, but the principal branch of the poultry industry consists in the raising of game-cocks for cock-fighting, which is the national sport.

Sheep and goats are bred on the imperial farms, but only for sacrifice.

Of the lower animals, mice, rats, guinea-pigs, rabbits, squirrels and monkeys are susceptible to the bacillus; horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, dogs and cats are more or less resistant, but cats and dogs have been known to die of plague (Oporto, Daman, Cutch and Poona).

Large numbers of sheep and Angora goats are reared on the plateau, and fair horses are bred on the Uzun Yaila; but no effort is made to improve the quality of the wool and mohair or the breed of horses.

Their tents are made of black goats' hair and their principal covering is a cloak of the same material.

Its acorn-fed swine are celebrated throughout Spain for their hams and bacon, and large herds of sheep and goats thrive where the pasture is too meagre for cattle.

Kali, on the other hand, the most terrible of the goddess's forms, has a special service performed to her, at the Kali-puja, during the darkest night of the succeeding month; when she is represented as a naked black woman, four-armed, wearing a garland of heads of giants slain by her, and a string of skulls round her neck, dancing on the breast of her husband (Mahakala), with gaping mouth and protruding tongue; and when she has to be propitiated by the slaughter of goats, sheep and buffaloes.

The great herds of goats, which in medieval times subsisted on the Welsh hills, have entirely disappeared since the general adoption of the sheep-farming industry.

Similarly nearly all our domestic mammals except the sheep have become feral somewhere or other, whether by intentional liberation or by escape; but the smaller ones more than the larger, such as pigs, goats, dogs and cats.

Goats, deer of various kinds, hares, and two or three species of antelope are found, as are monkeys in great variety.

Cattle, especially cows, and pigs form the bulk of the livestock, but sheep and goats have greatly decreased in numbers.

There are two species of the Edentata, Dasypus and Pichiciego, the latter very rare, and one of the opossums. European animals, such as horses, cattle, sheep, swine and goats, have been introduced into the country and do well.

Horse and mule breeding are carried on to a limited extent, and since the opening of the far South more attention has been given to sheep. Goats and swine are raised in small numbers on the large estates, but in Chiloe swine-raising is one of the chief occupations of the people.

Horses are raised to a limited extent; also goats, sheep and swine.

The best animals, he notes, are a cross between the Bactrian or two-humped and the Arabian or one-humped camel, Sheep, goats, dogs and cats are good of their kind; but not all the last are the beautiful creatures which, bearing the name of the country, have arrived at such distinction in Europe.

In the spurs of the mountains there are rich pasturages, where goats, yaks, camels, sheep and cattle are reared.

Most of the veld is divided into huge farms devoted to the rearing of cattle, sheep, goats and horses.

By preference the condor feeds on carrion, but it does not hesitate to attack sheep, goats and deer, and for this reason it is hunted down by the shepherds, who, it is said, train their dogs to look up and bark at the condors as they fly overhead.

The Bandanese pay occasional visits to shoot bears and deer; there are numbers of wild goats and cattle; and among birds are mentioned cassowaries, cockatoos, birds of paradise, and the swallows that furnish edible nests.

Even the parched bush provides sufficient nourishment for millions of sheep and goats.

Three very characteristic ruminants, having some affinities with goats, inhabit the Himalaya; these are the " serow " (Nemorhaedus), " goral " (Cemas) and " tahr " (Hemitragus), the last-named ranging to rather high elevations.

Large herds of swine are fed in the oak and chestnut woods of Alemtejo; sheep and goats are reared in the mountains, where excellent cheeses are made from goats' milk.

Horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine and poultry were introduced, and are now sources of food and wealth to a large part of the population.

Goats are raised in the warm and temperate regions, and sheep for their wool in the latter.

The live stock consisted of one bull and four cows, a stallion and three mares, some sheep, goats, pigs and a large number of fowls.

Here stock-breeding is the predominant calling, the people owning large numbers of sheep, cattle and horses, also goats, pigs and buffaloes.

Of domestic animals, sheep and goats are common.

Goats are of both the long and short-haired varieties.

The horns of the large goats are of ten thirty inches in length and stand up straight from the head.

The goats from the Arusi Galla country have fine silky hair which is sometimes sixteen inches long.

The meat of both sheep and goats is excellent; that of the latter is preferred by the natives.

In 1904 the estimated number of sheep and goats in the country was 20,000,000.

Large quantities of butter, generally rancid, are made from the milk of cows, goats and sheep. In the Leka province small black pigs are bred in considerable numbers.

The growth of missionary enterprise in India lent colour to this theory, which was supported by the fact that no precautions had been taken to grease the Indian cartridges with a neutral fat, such as that of sheep and goats.

Numbers of sheep are bred on the island, and there are a few cattle and deer, besides goats and wild cats.

The many goats and sheep of Ardeche make it one of the chief sources of supply of skins for glove-making.

Apollo is also the protector of cattle and herds, hence Poimnius (" god of flocks"), Tragius (" of goats"), Kereatas (" of horned animals").

Goats are largely produced for their skins, and in some localities, as in Cauca, sheep are raised for their wool.

On Christmas day Livingstone lost his four goats, a loss which he felt very keenly, and the medicine chest was stolen in January 1867.

Oxidizing agents, such as arsenic acid, convert it into ellagic acid, C 14 H 8 0 9 +H 2 0, probably a fluorene derivative, a substance which occurs in gall-nuts, in the external membrane of the episperm of the walnut, and prob ably in many plants, and composes the "bezoar stones" found in the intestines of Persian wild goats.

The farmers, in many instances, are pastoralists, whose wealth consists in their stock of cattle, sheep and goats, horses, and, in some cases, ostriches.

There were 2,775,000 angora and 4,386,000 other goats, some 2,000,000 cattle, 250,000 horses and 10o,000 asses.

Its nearest relatives appear to be the serows of the outer Himalaya and the Malay countries, which are in many respects intermediate between goats and antelopes, but it is not improbably also related to the musk-ox.

Of the domestic animals, all remarkable for their small size, the chief are the black, humped cattle somewhat resembling the Indian variety, and sheep and goats.

Practically they form a group impossible of definition, as they pass imperceptibly into the goats.

Although there may be a fringe of hair on the throat, the males have no beard on the chin; and they also lack the strong odour characteristic of goats.

Like goats, sheep have narrow upper molar teeth, very different from those of the oxen, and narrow hairy muzzles.

Although essentially mountain animals, sheep generally frequent open, undulating districts, rather than the precipitous heights to which goats are partial.

The marshy tracts often afford excellent pasture and support large numbers of cattle, sheep and goats.

Cheese, sardines, goats' skins and sheepskins are also exported.

Her general name in this connexion was ayporEpa (" roaming the wilds," not necessarily "goddess of the chase," an aspect less familiar in the older religion), to whom five hundred goats were offered every year by the Athenians as a thanksgiving in commemoration of the victory at Marathon.

Cheeses are made from the milk of both sheep and goats; but cattle are mostly bred for export or draught purposes.

The whole land is subject to inundations which render settled agriculture impracticable, and the population consists chiefly of nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes whose wealth consists in herds of buffaloes, horses, sheep and goats.

Sheep were kept everywhere for their flesh and their wool, and goats were numerous.

The proportion of sheep to other live-stock is lower than in most of the South Slavonic lands, and the scarcity of goats is also noteworthy.

Fauna.-The animal kingdom embraces, besides the usual domestic animals (as horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, asses, &c.), wild boars, deer, wild goats, hares, &c.; also bears, wolves, lynxes, foxes, wild cats, jackals, otters, beavers, polecats, martens, weasels and the like.

The fat-tailed sheep, goats and swine have also been naturalized, as well as all kinds of domestic poultry.

Goats are mostly bred in the mountainous districts all along the Spanish side of the Pyrenees froth Biscay to Catalonia, and in Badajoz, Cceres, Ciudad Real, Granada and Leon; swine in Badajoz, Lugo, Oviedo, Cceres and Corunna.

The pork and hams of Estremadura are famous; goats milk and cheese are important articles of diet.

In some districts a single peasant often owns as many as 3000 head of goats.

Kids when caught young and fed on goat's milk can be readily tamed; and in the 16th century young tamed ibex were frequently driven to the mountains along with the goats, in whose company they would afterwards return.

Even wild ibex have been known to stray among the herds of goats, although they shun the society of chamois.

By naturalists the name "ibex" has been extended to embrace all the kindred species of wild goats, while by sportsmen it is used in a still more elastic sense, to include not only the true wild goat (known in India as the Sind ibex) but even the short-horned Hemitragus hylocrius of the Nilgiris.

Wild-buffaloes, swine and goats are pretty common; and most of the usual domestic animals are kept.

Cattle-rearing is carried on with success in the river valleys, and more goats are met with here than in any other part of Prussia.

The scene was total chaos, with goats dashing every which way in an attempt to avoid each spray of slushy snow.

One of the goats was voicing a terrified cry and with it mingled vicious snarls and anxious barking.

He might have pictured cattle or horses — even goats, but elk and buffalo?

Of course, attacking an adult Texas long horn was a little different than a herd of hornless goats, but the cow was supposed to be carrying a calf.

Second, I prefer not lifting the goats over the fence to get them into the barn, and third, if you'd let me finish …" "You can't just put up a fence, Carmen.

As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, " Relatives of yours?

Sheep, goats, ducks, chickens, pot belly pig, rabbit, guinea pig.

Domestic animals include buffalo, which are used as draft animals, fowl, pigs, goats, cats, and dogs.

Meals have included creme caramel, sponge puddings, goats liver and curry.

Many rock marks used by anglers involve a steep descent down cliffs on tracks more suited to mountain goats.

You may wish to get involved in the supply of medicines to livestock farmers for use in cattle, sheep, pigs or goats.

They could be sacrificing goats for all I know.

She is said to take wild goats to the beaches of Skye where they feed on seaweed.

Visitors can also see the rare breeds of chickens, cows, pigs and pygmy goats stocked.

We stroked Angora goats, looked at their wool, and talked about all the different things you can make from wool.

Three billy goats, three magic beans, three beautiful sisters, three wicked witches or even three bothered bears.

Research is conducted on fiber production from cashmere goats and fine wool sheep and on the biology of growth and shedding of fibers.

Miniature dairy goats cause excitement in the caprine world!

Menu suggestion Salad of Herb Baked Goats Cheese with avocado, crisp bacon and toasted hazelnuts.

There is also a children's play area, picnic site and rare breed farm animals, including llamas and African pygmy goats.

Name one of the baby goats, race in the egg hunt or just get messy in the arts & crafts area.

The next step will be to find out whether the vaccine produced in goats ' milk also protects monkeys 5.

Also look out for the wild mountain goats on the way.

It rained and after seeing the mountain goats we had to get our waterproof coats and that was a major pain.

It produces the most delicious caramelized onions to top grilled goats cheese on a French baguette.

Even African pastoralists, whose lives depend on cows, sheep and goats, get more nutrition from milk than from meat.

Notable species include peregrine falcon, red and black grouse, red deer and feral goats.

Watch your daily pinta being produced, see how our goats are milked, or have a go at hand milking.

They not only grew food, but also reared poultry, pigs, goats and even donkeys.

Gorgeous goats cheese ravioli with broad beans was a star dish.

Abebech sold four goats to buy a cow and another two to buy schoolbooks and clothes for her children.

At the time, it was known that natural scrapie in goats was very rare.

An alternative is to graze sheep, cattle or goats on the site; they will do all the necessary topping.

The olive oil dough is topped with goats cheese, sun dried tomatoes, olives, nuts, pepper or mozzarella.

And as for the Three Billy Goats Gruff, how did they really deal with that huge ugly troll?

It is an agricultural country, depending for its prosperity on its grain, wool (average annual export, 4,400,000 lb), and the mohair obtained from the beautiful Angora goats (average annual clip, 3,300,000 lb).

Whereas in 1881 Sardinia was estimated to possess only 157,000 head of cattle, 478,000 sheep and 165,000 goats, the numbers in 1896 had increased to 1,159,000 head of cattle, 4,960,000 sheep and 1,780,000 goats.

The occupation of this region by Europeans, and the introduction of horses, asses, cattle, sheep, goats and swine, have completely changed its aspect and character.

The affinities of the white goat (which is really a member of a group intermediate between goats and antelopes) are probably with the Asiatic serows and takin, and hence perhaps with the musk-ox.

S oc cattle, 5,000,000; sheep, 6,000,ooo; goats, 1,800,000; swine, 1,8oo,ooo.

Owing to the reappearance of foot-and-mouth disease in Great Britain early in 1900 the importation of cattle, sheep, goats and swine therefrom into Ireland was temporarily suspended by the authorities in the latter country.

The line then descends to Wrynose Pass (1270 ft.), from which the Duddon runs south through a vale of peculiar richness in its lower parts; while the range continues south to culminate in the Old Man of Coniston (2633) with the splendid Dow Crags above Goats Water.

Until 1878 the forests were almost neglected; afterwards, the government was forced to levy a graduated tax on goats, owing to the damage they inflicted upon young trees, and to curtail the popular rights of cutting timber and fir-wood and of pasturage.

Clad in Eastern paraphernalia, he officiated at the numerous sacrifices indicated by the remains of iron and bronze knives, hatchets, chains, ashes and bones of oxen, sheep, goats, swine, fowl, &c. There was pouring of libations, chanting and music, and bells and candles were employed in the service.

Some of the poorer sorts of furs, such as hamster, marmot, Chinese goats and lambs, Tatar ponies, weasels, kaluga, various monkeys, antelopes, foxes, otters, jackals and others from the warmer zones, which until recently were neglected on account of their inferior quality of colour, by the better class of the trade, are now being deftly dressed or dyed in Europe and America, and good effects are produced, although the lack of quality when compared with the better furs from colder climates which possess full top hair, close underwool and supple leathers, is readily manifest.

It is the only species of its genus, and typifies a subfamily, Rupicaprinae, of hollowhorned ruminants in some degree intermediate between antelopes and goats (see ANTELOPE).

Sometimes a particular alp, or a portion of it, is reserved exclusively to heifers and calves, or to goats (in this case it is the loftier portion).

Sheep and goats are bred throughout the country; but the breeding of the beasts of burden (donkeys, horses, camels) is chiefly in the hands of the Bedouin.

There were pigs and goats on the island, and plenty of fish could be caught from the shore.

But there were birds in the woods and some wild goats on the hills.

Then he tamed a parrot and some goats.

Or head to Banon, a small village famous for its goats cheese wrapped in dried chestnut leaves and tied with a raffia ribbon.

From mice to shire horses, goats to guineapigs.

Cattle, sheep, goats and pigs are most commonly used.

Goats and pigs are not used that much (about 8 to 9 percent), but can be found in shoes, clothing, and linings in certain regions of the world.

The most common animal choices are cows, pigs, and chickens, but other animals such as goats and horses can also be suitable depending on what animals or livestock are most meaningful to the farmer.

They included pigs, horses, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens.

Dairy products from goats and sheep in addition to cows may be certified organic.

Sometimes rennet is derived from other animals, such as goats, sheep, and even pigs.

Goats Rue (Galega) - Graceful perennials of the Pea family flourishing in any soil.

Cashmere, which comes from goats, can be collected by either shearing the goats or combing them.

Is there a small dairy near you or someone locally that has goats or cows?

Cashmere is a quality fabric made of fur from goats raised primarily in Asia.

Rabbits, chickens, roosters, goats, and other barnyard animals are available at different times of the year, so if you have a lot of space and want to bring home a unique family pet, this is the place to look.

Articulate, talented and ambitious, rabbits do well to pair up with elegant sheep (also known as goats) and trust-worthy dogs.

Your tremendous sympathy for others also lets you fair well with rats, rabbits and goats.

Additionally, because you tend to be impatient and passionate, consider spending time with goats and fellow horses.

Goats, or sheep, can be shy and may have a slightly pessimistic outlook on life.

Their best matches include pigs, rabbits, and other goats.

Their best chance for a love connection is with rabbits, goats, rats and fellow pigs.

In particular, on May 3, 1996, residents of a Mexican village named Calderon reported seeing a "bat-like" creature that killed local goats and drained them of blood.

During that month, the creatures supposedly murdered sheep, cows and goats all throughout the country.

Goats, pigs, crocodiles, snakes and even other animals can be used to make leather shoes.

They are done in both real fur from animals like goats and rabbits, or in synthetic materials.

Common fauna includes birds, chickens, monkeys, horses, snakes, dogs and goats.

This feature not only allows children the opportunity to touch animals, they also have the ability to bottle-feed the young goats, horses, and miniature donkeys.

Milk Soaps - These soaps can be made from goats' milk, regular milk, or buttermilk and may be combined with herbs, flowers, or fragrances to make a unique and moisturizing hand or bath bar.

Because goats are more affordable to keep (as opposed to cows), making cheese from goat's milk is growing in popularity with the home gourmet.

It takes on flavors from other items in the refrigerator, and if you keep the bucks (male goats) around the does (female goats), their smell can permeate the milk as well.