Decline Watch: America's goat population to remain a mystery

Foreign Policy ^ | November 10, 2011 | Joshua Keating

[wbill]

Chip every crreature....reports for every time you move any animal off or back onto your farm

I think that this is a brilliant idea, and the NAID Nannies should set an example by doing it first to themselves.

I'd love to know when they get near my house.

On a more serious note, I wonder how what they're proposing is even enforceable.

[JoeProBono]

[M Kehoe]

For the goats to multiply, you must segregate them from muslim men.

I appreciate double entendres...

5.56mm

[Excellence]

I’m having a hard time believing this, but then again... What is the logic for this? Hell, do these horses have wings and you have to file a flight plan?

[goat granny]

OMG raise taxes, I cannot live without this information....GG LOL

[goat granny]

Now that is downright cold...:O(

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

We had Nubians when I was a teenager (one male, one female, and they obviously had some babies). One of the offspring got bloat and died, unfortunately. They were great for eating the thorns and poison ivy (which I’m highly allergic to). They are also very entertaining little critters—except when they tap dance on the hood of a car. ;) I wouldn’t mind having another one.

[goat granny]

Use to raise Angora’s, started with 18, 5 years later up to about 80. Then had to sell the farm. Goats are lovely creatures, just ask Elsie

[goat granny]

thanks for the ping, but taxchick is sure cold...LOL There are more angora goats in Texas than there are people...

[goat granny]

Great picture....:O)

[Tax-chick]

I have nothing against goats, but some are intended for eating. Some of my relatives in Missouri were doing quite well raising sheep and goats for sale to the Moslem population up in Michigan.

[Elsie]

Me, too!

Jack and Casper and Ellie Mae and Gracie.

[Elsie]

Oops!

EM is on the right.

[Utah Binger]

Any Relation to Whitegoat Potters?

[goat granny]

I tried goat meat and didn't like it, but they make great salami or sausage...the taste is a lot different than beef. But we didn't like lamb either..I was told the taste is similar to lamb...After we tried eating the first one, they went to salami and not chops.

Angora's are not as big as some breeds of goat, you lose about 55% after butchering. Beef you lose about 45-50% in hanging weight...our 1600 pound angus hung at 750 pounds. She was spoiled and had quite a bit of fat, but tasty.

[Tax-chick]

When I was growing up in the Southwest, you didn’t ask where the meat came from ;-). I like goat and lamb pretty well, especially if you really sauce up the goat. If you cook it for a day, it’s not even tough.

It’s been a long time since I had cabrito, but if we have the national economic collapse and have to move back to the farm, we’ll get used to it again.

[goat granny]

Heck if it gets reallllly bad, you could get use to roasted rat. There are millions of them...LOL

[Tax-chick]

We have plenty of opossums here, but I don’t recall seeing a rat!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

As I recall sometime back in the 60's there was a proposal that "at no time will the number of employees of the Department of Agriculture exceed the number of farms in the US." It was defeated.

Now we know why, they needed more goat counters.

[Tax-chick]

The Department of Agriculture is an amazing racket. It’s a wonder we have anything to eat at all.