It's Menagerie Monday! I was planning on featuring a small animal but then I got this cute picture of Goth Kid in the hay manger and realized it warranted a share.
The goats here are not rescued animals; they belong to my spouse. Before we neutered our buck, he wanted kids out of him, and kids we got: one of our does had quads, the other had twins. We are now overrun with baby goats, which isn't the worst problem to have all things considered.
Goth Kid is one of Goatse's kids. I'm sure I'm not supposed to pick favorites but I am shallow and he is pretty so he's my favorite. He is only a couple months old but already has A+ horns; if we didn't have to worry about unwanted pregnancies I would have loved to have kept him intact to see how impressive they'd get, but we are THOROUGHLY DONE with goat reproduction. I will re-home my spouse if he tries to make more goats happen. Goth Kid and his brother Garmelie were actually neutered last week specifically to avoid that outcome, and our other four get snipped on Wednesday. (Funny aside, I have to schedule all of my goat vetting appointments on Wednesday because the clinic has an employee who is terribly phobic of goats and it's her only week day off).
I feel like I should be sharing fun facts about goats but I'm honestly a goat n00b and learn more about them every day so I'm on no position to try to sound like an expert. I thankfully have a very goat-savvy rescue friend to offer me guidance. I will say that Nigerian dwarf goats are just heinously fertile compared to other breeds; they can be fertile at seven weeks of age and breed year round rather than having seasonal heats. It feels fitting that we would have the rabbits of the goat world at ACS, considering how many actual rabbits live and come through here.
