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Tuesday, June 30. 2009

Good quote about H.G. Wells, plus goats

"Orwell was right. It was Wells who made it respectable, even before World War I, for liberals in England and America to demean their own native democratic culture in the name of an imagined antidemocratic World State. And it was Wells, with his stature as the prophet of the future, who taught upper-middle-class liberals that they were entitled to govern in the name of social evolution."


Fred Siegel, writing on HG Wells, via Samiz. 


Readers know that we proud gun-and-Bible-clinging redneck Northeast Yankees hate it when Chardonnay-sippers who see themselves as our betters try to tell us how to live. We ain't stupid neither - cuz we been government-eddicated! At great expense!


BTW, we do love chevre - to the point that our editor wants to keep some goats. The meat is quite tasty, too. What's the PC term for a she-goat? A goatess? Goatette? Help me out.

Posted by The News Junkie in History, Politics at 10:55 | Comments (14) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yankee Goddess.
#1 Leag on 2009-06-30 11:30 (Reply)
A female goat is a doe, sometimes termed a nanny.
#2 Fla. Cracker on 2009-06-30 11:41 (Reply)
OK. A doe.
My Mom raised goats during the war (that would be WW2).
Also kept a chicken coop back then. In CT. No chickens, no eggs.
I have a sharp memory of her old goat shed.
She was a great help to her widower Dad.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2009-06-30 11:45 (Reply)
I just checked with my-husband-the-nature-writer and he says that the common terms are nanny-goat and billy-goat. I guess "naturalists" who are writing peer-reviewed scientific papers would call a female goat a 'doe,' but down here in Texas I've never heard the term.

Of course, we're just those cowboys many Easterners show such scorn for. But who in their right mind would listen to Maureen Dowd anyway?

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2009-06-30 12:04 (Reply)
A bit of experience here;

1. Have them dehorned! You can only really do this a few days to a week after birth when you feel the "nubs" begin to form, they are burned with a hot iron..not fun and quite painful I'm sure but a full grown goat with horns is not something you want around.

2. Get more than one. They are herd animals and as well something like 90% of all births are fraternal twins, a single goat soon becomes a crazy goat.

3. Unless you have specific plans to breed them, get the males fixed. Once they reach maturity the smell is pretty gamy and tends to stick around.

Goats milk is consumed by more people worldwide than cows milk, it is naturally pasteurized as the fat globules are much smaller and less prone to spoilage. People who are lactose intolerant can often drink goats milk with no discomfort.

We got the boy 2 Nigerian Dwarfs for Easter. Had plans of teaching the boy some responsibility and having the goats chew their way into the back 40. Now we just have two very cute, very spoiled pets!

The best advice I have received so far was a quote I found at the top of a site dedicated to raising goats. It purported to be an ancient saying an went:

"If you think you have no problems, buy a goat"
#4 NorthCountry on 2009-06-30 12:45 (Reply)
NorthCountry, you mean "naturally homogenized" i think. Pasteurization is a more technically precise term meaning it has been heated to a certain degree for a certain duration in order to kill a certain pathogenic environment.

but you is right it sho nuff is naturally homogenized --avoiding the mechanical homogenization of cow's milk also avoids breaking up the fat globules, a breaking up that makes them stickier, it is said, to one's artery walls.
#4.1 buddy larsen on 2009-06-30 15:03 (Reply)
the smell is pretty gamy and tends to stick around.

The smell also drifts downwind for amazing distances. And watching a billy goat in season is... well... it is an education.
#4.2 chuck on 2009-06-30 17:09 (Reply)
Nanny. I had hundreds of 'em during the fifteen year run (oddly, it lasted exactly as long as i did) of Larsen Farms Texas Chevre. Saanens, Alpines, Nubians, Toggenbergs, lessee what else. I forget, thank gawd.
#5 buddy larsen on 2009-06-30 13:18 (Reply)
Milk goat on a 20ft. rope....Good lawn mower and great milk maker.
#6 RL on 2009-06-30 13:44 (Reply)
Speaking of the horn buds, Ringling Brothers made a unicorn some 30 years ago by having a vet fuse the two horn buds on a young goat. I have seen images of rare deer that had a single antler in the middle of the forehead instead of a pair. Rhinos are the only animals I know of with mid-line horns, but their horns are more like dense hair than they are like true horns or antlers.
#7 Geoff on 2009-06-30 14:15 (Reply)
I remember the "unicorn". Oddly, many historical pictures of unicorns show them with "beards" like goats develop.
#7.1 NorthCountry on 2009-06-30 14:35 (Reply)
Male goat - intact - Buck
Male goat - neutered - Wether
Female Goat < 1 year - doeling
Female Goat - doe
Generic < 1 year - kid

Removal of horns with hot iron (I do it ~2 weeks) - disbudding
Note: kids bleat a lot but are playing again w/in 15 minutes

LaMancha goats (only earless goat) are most gentle milkers
#8 Herb of Orange on 2009-07-01 07:18 (Reply)
A goatee.
#9 sean on 2009-07-01 08:56 (Reply)
I eat fresh goat sausage every morning, and wash it down with fresh goat milk. Both are delicious. I love your blog.
#10 Bob Agard (Link) on 2009-07-11 01:18 (Reply)

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