SkyLines Farm Photo of the Day-Week-Month
January 21,
2004
Five-year-old
Brownie
, one of my favorites of the new
SkyLines cashmere goats, sports a rather exotic set
of horns. All 11 of the goats have horns, and when
the herd arrived here last fall I confess that I
was just a teeny bit apprehensive about those
wicked-looking appendages.
I knew
that I wanted to raise cashmere in addition to
wool, but I'd never known a goat before, much less
a horned one. All of the SkyLines sheep are polled
(hornless). Considering the amount of time I spend
hands on and close up with my animals, did I really
want to keep critters with these serious weapons
growing out of their heads?
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