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Tamsin Cooper
Articles by Tamsin Cooper
Why Does My Goat Paw at Me? Caprine Communication
Goats are sensitive to human body language and they try to communicate with us. It’s important to understand their behavior and know how they read ours.
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Breed Profile: Kalahari Red Goats
Kalahari Red goats are commercially developed for meat from native African landraces and red Boer goats. They are excellent natural mothers and tough survivors in the hot, dry savanna. Their strength and fecundity lends promise to the food supply in Africa.
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Goat Games Reveal Caprine Intelligence
With progress in production and husbandry systems in mind, researchers design goat games and study such behavior in domestic goats. Foraging styles, social strategies, stress responses, the human–animal relationship, and the effects of different systems have all come under the empirical microscope.
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Breed Profile: Girgentana Goat
The Girgentana goat is one of Italy’s rare goat breeds with unique and valuable hardy traits and great potential for craft dairy products … and the most amazing horns!
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Goat Training Fundamentals
Goats are learning all the time and can be trained using positive reinforcement techniques, making life more fun and harmonious for you and your goats.
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Breed Profile: Golden Guernsey Goat
The Golden Guernsey goat is an economical and friendly backyard dairy goat, hardy to damp, cool, and windy conditions, giving milk that’s great for cheese and yogurt.
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Introducing New Goats: How to Minimize Stress
Introducing new goats to the herd or a single goat is stressful, especially for the new goat. Here’s how to make it easier.
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Breed Profile: Hawaiian Ibex Goats
The Hawaiian Ibex goat is a feral domestic goat that returned to a wild state on the Hawaiian Islands over 250 years. They are excellent foragers and can be employed to manage vegetation.
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It’s Written on Goats’ Faces
Do goats’ faces express their feelings? And do they recognize ours? Animal behavior researchers are busy finding out. So far, we have evidence of how subtle and sensitive goats can be.
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Breed Profile: Kri-Kri Goat
The kri-kri goat has lived feral on Crete for thousands of years since the early days of agriculture, revealing a glimpse of early goat domestication.
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