Goats are curious, intelligent and playful animals who are exploited for both their milk, flesh and skin. Show  Rescued kids Atlas and Mercury would have been killed by having a metal bar smashed into their heads had they not been rescued and put into care Studies have shown that goats recognise the emotions of their friends from their calls, they can recall how to perform complex tasks years after they are taught them, and they look to humans for help with tasks just like dogs do. BBC: Goats Are As Clever As Dogs The Telegraph: Goats Are As Loving And Clever As Dogs... Frontiers in Zoology: Goats distinguish between positive and negative emotion-linked vocalisations SlaughterAccording to the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, 464.6 million goats are slaughtered every year around the world. That’s nearly more than 20 times the human population of Australia FAO: Data Australian Bureau of Statistics: Population Clock In Australia, 1.65 million goats were recorded as slaughtered in 2018, but many more are slaughtered on-site at farms who are not counted in this total. Meat and Livestock Australia: Goat Prices on the Rise Naturally, goats can live to be 15 to 20 years old. When bred for meat, goats are slaughtered at six months to one year old. Agriculture Western Australia: Introduction to Dairy Goat Farming for Small Landholders FAO: Guidelines for slaughtering, meat cutting and further processing In the dairy industry, spent mothers are slaughtered when they are no longer producing milk or babies at a rate that is profitable to farmers. Their newborn babies, if they are male, are slaughtered at less than 24 hours old. Meat and Livestock Australia: Goat Depot Fiasco Farm: Teeth, Life Expectancy & How To Estimate A Goat's Age leaked.com.au Dairy: Male kidsJust like in the cow dairy industry, female goats, or does, are repeatedly impregnated, as this is the only way they will produce milk. AgriFutures: Year Round Supply of Goats Milk Milk is naturally produced purely for a mother’s baby. These babies have a different fate depending on their sex. A still from our Goat Truth exposé. Most of the females are raised to replace their mothers in the milking herd, and are fed lesser quality milk replacement instead of their mother’s milk, so that the milk intended for them can be used for human consumption. RSPCA: How Are Dairy Goats Farmed? Male goat kids are considered as waste because they will never produce milk, and therefore never produce a profit for farmers or the wider industry. It is industry standard that these male kids are killed soon after they are born. RSPCA: How Are Dairy Goats Farmed? Many farms kill the newborn kids with a captive bolt gun shot through their brain. It is also legal for kids 24 hours old or less to be killed by blunt force trauma. This means if a farmer uses a hammer, a metal pole, or a rock to bludgeon a newborn goat in the head, it is legal. Victorian codes of practice for animal welfare Meat and Livestock Australia: Goat Depot Animal Welfare Standards: Goat Guidelines Northern Territory Government: Goat Checklist A still from our Goat Truth exposé. Our Goat Truth campaign captures the blunt force trauma killing of goat kids, described as ‘humane destruction’ by the Government and industry. There is nothing humane about blunt force trauma. There is nothing humane about killing a newborn baby. A very small amount of boys who are thought to be ‘good for breeding’ are spared their lives so that they can impregnate the does annually, until they are no longer doing so effectively, and are culled. Dairy: MothersThe baby girls that are taken away from their mothers at birth are kept in housing and fed milk replacement powder until they are older. They are raised to replace the herd when their mothers, and other doe goats of the same age, are no longer considered financially viable. AgriFutures: Dairy Goat Manual Second Edition NSW Department of Primary Industries: Artificial Methods of Rearing Goats RPSCA Knowledge Base: How are dairy goats farmed? At 19 months old, female goats are impregnated for the first time. Mother goats carry their babies for 150 days. Agriculture Western Australia: Introduction to Dairy Goat Farming for Small Landholders American Boer Goat Association: Gestation Calculator Mother goats have a deep and instant bond with their babies. They remember the calls of their individual babies, even a year after they have been taken away from them. Live Science: Goats Remember Kids Voices Mother goats are generally milked twice a day, and impregnated every year. When the mother goats are no longer producing milk efficiently, and their bodies can no longer withstand the constant breeding, they are culled and replaced by new babies. Agriculture Western Australia: Introduction to Dairy Goat Farming for Small Landholders Meat and Livestock Australia: Goat Husbandry Source: Meat and Livestock Australia’s ‘Goat Husbandry’ information documents Culled mothers and their male babies can be found on many farms in huge ‘dead piles’ that are eventually covered with dirt. MeatPerhaps surprisingly, Australia is the largest exporter of goat meat in the world. Only 10% of this meat comes from goats bred and farmed for meat, with the rest coming from a wild breed of goats that originated from escaped domestic goats brought to Australia by European invaders. These goats are captured from the wild, transported to feedlots where they are fattened and finally sent to slaughter. Meat and Livestock Australia: Australian Goat Meat Finds Sustainable Global Demand Meat and Livestock Australia: Goat Depot LeatherHundreds of millions of goats are slaughtered and skinned in the leather industry every year. These skins come as a co-product of the meat and dairy industries, and their sale financially supports these industries as well as slaughter industries. FAO: Intergovernmental Group on Meat and Dairy Products Sub-group on Hides and Skins Worldometers: Population By Country A rescued dairy baby with vegan leather bag and shoes by Sans Beast and Good Guys Don’t Wear Leather. Willow Creative Co We do not need to consume any products which come from exploited goats. We do not need goats milk or products made from it. We do not need to eat meat or wear leather. We can live well without ending the lives of others. If you want to learn more about how you can live cruelty free, please take our free 30 Day Vegan Easy Challenge. Can male goats be around baby goats?A goat kid of either sex can be fertile at 7 weeks of age (though they should not be bred at that age). Intact bucks and does over 8 weeks of age should not be kept together because a young buck can, and will,breed a female at 2 months of age, this includes his mother and 2 month old sister!
Will a billy goat hurt a baby goat?Aggressive bucks can injure or kill kids. A goat kid of either gender can be fertile at 7 weeks of age (as early as 4 weeks of age for Nigerian Dwarf goats). Intact bucks can and will breed anything, which could impregnate their mother or two month old sister.
Can a goat kill another goat?Even scarier than bucks butting heads, however, are pregnant does fighting. In most cases goats will butt heads for a few minutes when first introduced, and once in a while they'll hit each other with their heads if they want hay or grain that the other one is eating.
When should you separate male and female goats?But for the most part, you have to separate male goats or bucks from the females, because the does come into heat or estrus every 18 to 23 days. Complicating the matter is the fact that males are important for milk quality. It's a good idea to keep them separate during pregnancy and kidding.
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