7/26/2023 0 Comments Mother goat sounds![]() If a mother doe were to be retired at 10 years old, then she could live up to 20, sometimes even 30 years old. Until she is no longer a profitable ‘milk producer’. These kids will again be taken away from her … and so the cycle continues. She is re-impregnated within that time frame in order for her to give birth to 2 or 3 more kids the following season. After suckling her kids for the paltry 4 day period, they are taken from her, so that she can be milked for profit for the next 10 months. The birthing period for goats in South Africa tends to be August to October. In another demonstration of science’s inability to see what is in plain sight, there is now scientific proof that a doe will remember and recognise the call of her own kids more than a year after they have been parted. Goats are highly social creatures and the bonds they form with their kids are instant and enduring. It stands to reason that because goats are sentient beings, then the experience for goats is no different. In some mysterious way, Nature has contrived to use pain in order to help us bond better with our children. ![]() However, mothers who have experienced natural childbirth say the pain is surpassed and erased by the joy of holding their child for the first time. It is also not pretty filled with bellows and contractions drama and pain. Anyone who has children, knows it is a miracle filled with wonder at bringing a new life into this world. She carries her kid for a 5 month gestation period, and then undergoes natural childbirth. The Miracle of ChildbirthĪt the tender age of 8-10 months old the young doe is impregnated. Unfortunately for the goats, the mothers act as the machines, their kids and their kids’ milk are the products. They then implement those highly invasive, and intimate, animal husbandry best practices in order to achieve the highest yield of milk possible, maximise their profits and turn their farm into a viable enterprise. To be crass, but honest, they study the optimum way to exploit the reproductive organs of female goats. When people embark on setting up a goat’s milk farm, it is not some feel-good endeavour to improve the lives of goats. Goat’s milk farms are not farm sanctuaries. However, we all have to grow up at some point, swallow the red pill and face reality. There was also a time when we believed in Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. ![]() When we think of goat’s cheese, we visualise Alpine scenes from ‘Heidi’ with goats grazing in green meadows their joyful, bleating kids prancing alongside them. And that is where the fairy tale ends for the goats. This not only protects them from infection, it also prolongs their life for the insidious reason that the milk is unsaleable at that point. For the first 4 days of the goat kids’ lives, their mother’s milk is chock-full of colostrum. Our babies are suckled and nurtured by their mother’s milk. ![]() Milk production is a natural biological function that is triggered in mammals after, and only after, childbirth. Milking Goats For Profitįemale goats and female humans are similar in the way we breastfeed our young. While cows give birth to one calf a year, mother goats typically have twins, or even three kids at a time thus doubling, and sometimes tripling the pain and suffering caused. The goat’s milk industry results in the death of thousands of kids every year. Are you considering reducing your dairy consumption by switching from cows to goat’s milk? On compassionate grounds, please take a moment to reconsider your choice.
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